Magazine format television programs

found: Moving image genre-form guide online, August 14, 2007:(Magazine: nonfiction work covering disparate but contemporary topics during its duration, often mixing news with weather, human interest, or gossip)

found: Yee, M. M. Moving image materials, 1988:p. 61 (Magazines: use for nonfiction films and programs which take the form of a number of stories on items of current interest which are treated in a more general, in-depth, and/or reflective way than they would be on a news program)

found: Les Brown's encyc. of television, 1992(magazine format: a program made up of varied segments, long and short, on a variety of subjects ... originally usually news or public affairs programs ... late 70s adapted for straight entertainment ... became epidemic 1990s)

found: Wikipedia, March 5, 2008:(newsmagazine: sometimes called news magazine, is usually a weekly magazine featuring articles or segments on current events. News magazines generally go more in-depth into stories than newspapers or television news, trying to give the reader an understanding of the context surrounding important events, rather than just the facts; Television news magazines provide a similar service to print news magazines, but their stories are presented as short television documentaries rather than written articles)