newstalk

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noun

A television or radio programme in which host conversation with guests or audience members is mixed with news programming.

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Meanings

nounnewstalk (plural newstalks)

plural newstalks

  1. broadcastingA television or radio programme in which host conversation with guests or audience members is mixed with news programming.

    "The most obvious and basic expansion of media talk has come with the general boom in newstalk and news magazine programs on both radio and TV."

    2014, Peter Gibian, Mass Culture and Everyday Life

Origin

From news + talk.

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Cite this entry
APA

newstalk. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/newstalk

MLA

“newstalk.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/newstalk. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “newstalk,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/newstalk.

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