Television programme
From Wikipedia, a free encyclopedia written in simple English for easy reading.
A television programme is a distinctive segment of what people see and hear when watching and listening to television. If when watching a television channel I watch the whole of a programme about news, then I could say that I have watched a news television programme, or more usually people would say that they have watched the news on TV. If the broadcaster or channel that I am watching has a distinctive name for the news programme that I have watched, say "The 10 o'clock News", for example, then people also say that The 10 o'clock News is a television programme, referring to multiple screenings of The 10 o'clock News with each programme being different. This is more usual for a television programme called a series, such as with a soap opera, when each individual programme is called an episode. If an episode is broadcasted more than once, then people say that that episode has had multiple screenings.
Most television broadcasting is a lot of different television programmes screened one after another. In between television programme screenings, a channel may use an announcer to cue in the next programme. On many channels in many countries in the world, advertisments are shown for short periods of time during and between programme screenings - people do not usually include any advertisments screened during a television programme screening as a part of the programme.