SET iNews Channel () is a Taiwanese 24-hour news channel, broadcasting predominantly in

Mandarin Mandarin or The Mandarin may refer to: Language * Mandarin Chinese, branch of Chinese originally spoken in northern parts of the country ** Standard Chinese or Modern Standard Mandarin, the official language of China ** Taiwanese Mandarin, Stand ...

, owned by

Sanlih E-Television Sanlih Entertainment Television or Sanlih E-Television (SET; ) is a nationwide cable TV network operated in Taiwan which was founded in May 1993. It also produces Taiwanese drama that are broadcast on free-to-air channels e.g. Taiwan Televisio ...

and launched in May 2011 as SET Finance (), switching to its current name on 26 June 2017. It is a sister channel of

SET News SET News (SETN; ) is a 24-hour news channel of the Sanlih E-Television in Taiwan, launched in March 1998. SET News and sister channel SET iNews are considered media outlets leaning towards the Pan-Green coalition. SET News is available on You ...

, launched in 1998. Compared to SET News, whose format is general news, SET iNews broadcasts more financial and slightly more international news. Nevertheless, both channels share resources, including reporters and presenters, and, until mid-2021, especially during off-peak hours ( late night and early mornings, as well as weekends), simulcast and/or repeated some programming premiered in the other network. This practice ended as part of SET iNews move to channel 48 on some operators: since August 2021 SET iNews starts its weekend live newscasts at 07:00 local time (before that, it simulcast SET iNews from 07:00 to 09:00 local time, aired a repeat of a night talk show, and started live newscasts at 11:00) and canceled the simulcast of sister channel SET News weekend midnight newscast, replacing it since July 2021 with a repeat of its own 19:00 newscast. Both SET iNews and sister channel SET News are considered media outlets leaning towards the

Pan-Green coalition The pan-Green coalition, pan-Green force or pan-Green groups is a nationalist political coalition in Taiwan (Republic of China), consisting of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), Taiwan Statebuilding Party (TSP), Taiwan Solidarity Union ...

Move to channel 48

On 26 May 2021, the

National Communications Commission The National Communications Commission (NCC; ) is an independent statutory agency of Executive Yuan of the Republic of China (Taiwan) responsible for regulating the development of the telecommunication and broadcasting industries, promoting compe ...

(NCC) announced SET iNews will move to Channel 48 in a number of cable systems, after filing an application in April 2020. SET iNews will have to reduce the simulcast of content from sister channel SET News from 20% to 10%, position itself as a network with a different focus, namely financial news and financial programmes—even comprehensive talk programs should be mainly of financial nature; and hire financial experts and scholars to join the ethics committee. By 2024, SET iNews will have to invest around 200 million

TWD The New Taiwan dollar (code: TWD; symbol: NT$, also abbreviated as NT) is the official currency of Taiwan. The New Taiwan dollar has been the currency of Taiwan since 1949, when it replaced the Old Taiwan dollar, at a rate of 40,000 old dollars ...

to supplement its workforce and improve its content. This change would allow SET iNews to reach 25% of cable TV subscribers.

Programming

As of late August 2021, SET iNews operates on a 69-hour live newscast programming schedule per week: weekdays 07:00-10:00, 11:00-14:00, and 16:00-21:00 local time, and weekends 07:00-09:00, 12:00-14:00, and 17:00-20:00 local time. Night periods are programmed with recorded talk shows (weeknights from 21:00 to 01:00, weekends from 21:00 to 23:00); overnight repeats start at 01:00 on weekdays and at 00:00 on weekends, ending at 07:00 every day. The weekday noon newscast is repeated at 15:00 the same day. The weekend schedule when no live newscast airs is filled with prerecorded weekly journalistic programmes, some of them rerun in the 10:00 time slot on weekdays.

References

External links

SET News official website
{{Television in the Republic of China 2011 establishments in Taiwan Television channels and stations established in 2011 24-hour television news channels in Taiwan Television news in Taiwan Sanlih E-Television