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On occasion, a film or TV show will feature a news segment discussing events happening within the show. The fictional scene will star an actual newscaster who delivers that sort of segment in RealLife.

In SportsStories, this can take the specialized form of a Sportscaster Cameo.

Related to PracticalVoiceOver, where the voices are frequently recognizable newscasters. Sometimes achieved in {{dramatization}}s by use of StockFootage.

SisterTrope to LenoDevice, which uses a talk show or other nonfiction entertainment, rather than a straight news program. Subtrope of AsHimself and TheCameo. Compare PhonyNewscast. Not to be confused with KentBrockmanNews, though it can certainly take that role.

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[[folder:Advertising]]
* ''Advertising/CoachLasso'': In "The Return of Coach Lasso", real-life sports presenters Arlo White and Rebecca Lowe assist in the skit as Lasso's fellow commentators.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByCY2UYLHG8 One viral marketing clip]] for ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'', discussing a possible FrameUp of Erik "Magneto" Lensherr for [[WhoShotJFK the assassination of President John F. Kennedy]] is formatted in the style of a trailer for the long-running Creator/{{PBS}} current events documentary series ''Frontline'', with real-life ''Frontline'' host Will Lyman providing the narration.
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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* News anchor Christel Takigawa makes several appearances as herself delivering news on ''Anime/TokyoMagnitude8''.
* ''Anime/YuriOnIce'', which focuses on figure skating, has several real-life announcers provide commentary for competitions (many of whom were previously figure skaters themselves).
** Hisashi Morooka, a reoccurring commentator throughout the series, is voiced by Taihei Katou, a real life figure skating commentator and announcer for TV Asahi.
** Former figure skater-turned-commentator Nobunari Oda appears as a commentator for the Barcelona Grand Prix Final. He also appears in the preview for episode 11, in which he calls Victor and Yuri by their nicknames, comments on their matching rings, and agrees to take a photo with Yurio.
** Former Japanese national champion-turned-commentator Takeshi Honda is a commentator at the Sochi Grand Prix Final in the first episode.
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[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
* In the French version of ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles1'', the voice over the news covering the events leading to the SuperRegistrationAct is provided by veteran news anchor [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Poivre_d%27Arvor Patrick Poivre D'Arvor]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut'', the announcer of the hockey game Riley's dad's emotions are watching is none other than [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Hahn Randy Hahn]], the TV play-by-play voice of the San Jose Sharks.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoNinjagoMovie'':
** Michael Strahan and Creator/RobinRoberts of ''Good Morning America'' play LEGO caricatures of themselves as newscasters for ''Good Morning Ninjago'', where they provide exposition about Garmadon's frequent invasions of Ninjago City and introduce the Secret Ninja Force.
** In the UK version, Ben Shephard and Kate Garraway of ''Good Morning Britain'' take their places.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'':
** Canadian newsreader Peter Mansbridge voices his Zootopian counterpart, Peter Moosebridge.
** In the UK version he's dubbed by Creator/TheBBC sportscaster Vassos Alexander as Moosos Alexander.
** In the Brazilian dub he's replaced by a jaguar called Boi Chá voiced by journalist Ricardo Boechat. Other countries also had their own version of the character (with [[ShownTheirWork the species of each newscaster taken from the region the movie is playing in]], although not necessarily voiced by a real newscaster.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* In ''Film/{{Airheads}}'', MTV journalist Kurt Loder shows up just in time to deliver a BrickJoke.
* In the sequel to ''Film/TheAmazingColossalMan'', ''War of the Colossal Beast'', the reporter for Los Angeles TV station KTLA was Stan Chambers, a real-life KTLA reporter at the time.
* ''Film/Apollo13'' has StockFootage of news reports from the time. Its prologue is narrated by Creator/WalterCronkite.
* Greg Warmoth, a newscaster from the local ABC affiliate in Central Florida, WFTV-9 (co-owned with WSB), can be seen briefly at the end of ''Film/{{Armageddon|1998}}'', reporting on the successful mission.
* ''[[Film/AtlasShrugged Atlas Shrugged Part II]]'' features an appearance of Sean Hannity along with fellow Fox News denizens discussing the plot of the film. Their opinions are exactly what they would have been in real life.
* Woody Allen's ''Film/{{Bananas}}'' had both Roger Grimsby (of WABC-7 in NYC) and Howard Cosell (of Monday Night Football) making news broadcasts of a particularly idiotic nature.
* ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'' has cameos from newscasters like Soledad O'Brien, Anderson Cooper, Nancy Grace and Charlie Rose.
* The TV newscaster who presents the news on Ben's [[spoiler:faked]] suicide in ''Film/BenX'' is in fact Wim De Vilder, a real-life TV newscaster for the VRT's main news program.
* ''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind''. RealLife anchorman Howard K. Smith gives a TV news report on the (fake) anthrax scare that the government is using to make people evacuate the area around Devil's Tower.
* A ''lot'' of actual reporters "played themselves" in ''Film/{{Contact}}''. CNN actually took so much backlash for this (13 of its newscasters and journalists appeared) that it put in place an ethical policy afterwards, in which their journalists had to get permission in order to portray themselves on film.
* Creator/Channel4 newsreader Jon Snow played "TV Anchorman" (a character based on [[CompositeCharacter various]] {{Spear Carrier}}s in the original play) in Ralph Fiennes's SettingUpdate of ''Theatre/{{Coriolanus}}''.
* Richard Valeriani, a long-time White House correspondent, played himself reporting the backstory leading to the plot of ''Film/CrimsonTide''.
* Creator/TylerPerry's movie ''Daddy's Little Girls'' has Monica Pearson, an actual anchor (now retired) from Atlanta's ABC station, WSB-TV 2 (that most people in Georgia have heard of), talk about the main character being accused of rape.
* ''Film/{{The Day the Earth Stood Still|1951}}'' was an early film instance, with famous newspaper and radio journalists -- Elmer Davis, Gabriel Heatter, H.V. Kaltenborn, and Drew Pearson -- providing news of the invasion.
* Japanese news reporter Saburo Iketani appeared as himself in several Toho Kaiju films during the 60's, most notably in ''Film/DestroyAllMonsters''.
* The French movie ''Film/DeuxHeuresMoinsLeQuartAvantJesusChrist'' is a comedy set in a PurelyAestheticEra AncientRome, so despite the pure anachronism television is present, with two famous (for TheEighties) news anchors making cameos:
** First [[https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Léon_Zitrone Léon Zitrone]], one of the biggest name of French TV, commenting the circus games ([[AdamWesting the same way he used to comment horse racing]]).
** Then [[https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Mourousi Yves Mourousi]] at the end, announcing the TV news, among which [[UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} the birth of a child in a manger in Bethlehem]].
* Real-life newscaster Bill Bonds (best known for his work on WXYZ in Detroit, MI) cameos as a newscaster in ''Film/EscapeFromThePlanetOfTheApes''.
* Played for laughs with ABS-CBN journalist Gus Abelgas in the Filipino comedy movie ''Film/{{Fantastica}}''. Though unlike in most of the examples in this page, Abelgas was cast more for his iconic voice in ''S.O.C.O.: Scene of the Crime Operatives'' than for appearing in an in-universe broadcast. Attorney and television personality Jose C. Sison also made a cameo appearance in the film's climax where he delivered his usual legal spiel.
* In ''Film/{{France|2021}}'' (2021), journalists François-Xavier Ménage and Omar Ouahmane appear as themselves.
* ''Film/FreeGuy'': The ''Good Morning America'' segments discussing Guy are done by real GMA anchor Lara Spencer.
* ''Film/GlassOnion'': CNN's Jake Tapper interviews the fictional Connecticut governor Claire in the opening of the film.
* Sports anchor Rob Fukuzaki for Los Angeles' KABC-TV station briefly cameos as an [=WIDF=] anchor in ''Film/Godzilla1998''.
* The 2017 remake of the 1981 New Zealand film ''Goodbye Pork Pie'' titled ''Pork Pie'' features appearances from Eric Young (''Prime News: First at 5:30'') and Simon Dallow (1 News)
* ''Film/TheGreatWhiteHype'' features several sports writers associated with boxing playing small roles, including boxing historian Bert Sugar.
* ''Film/HuntForTheWilderpeople'': TVNZ presenters Sam Wallace and Nadine Chalmers-Ross appears in this one.
* ''Film/IndependenceDay'' featured many reporters during the first act, including Barry Nolan, Wendy Walsh, George Putnam, and John [=McLaughlin=].
* ''Film/ItHappenedHere''. A chilling version occurs in this AlternateHistory film about a Nazi-occupied Britain, where veteran wartime BBC radio announcers Alvar Lidell and John Snagge give their voice to fascist propaganda {{newsreel}}s.
* A couple of ''Film/JamesBond'' examples:
** Then BBC newsreader Martyn Lewis appears in an 'archive' report on Elektra King in ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough''
** Huw Edwards (BBC) and Wolf Blitzer (CNN) both appear in ''Film/{{Skyfall}}''.
* Jules Asner and Steve Kmetko from ''E! News Daily'' show up in ''Film/JayAndSilentBobStrikeBack'', where Jules gets to read a cleaned-up version of Jay's [[ClusterFBomb profanity-laced tirades]] on the air:
-->"Once we get to Hollywood and find those Miramax 'expletive-deleted' who are making the ''Bluntman and Chronic'' movie, we're gonna make 'em eat our 'expletive-deleted', then 'expletive-deleted', which is made up of our 'expletive-deleted', then eat their 'expletive-deleted', which is made up of our 'expletive-deleted' that we made 'em eat. Unquote."
* Matt Lauer interviewed Rick Marshall (Will Ferrell's character) in the movie remake of ''Land of the Lost''. It didn't go well.
* ''Film/{{Lantana}}'' has an appearance by Richard Morecroft of [[Creator/AustralianBroadcastingCorporation ABC News]] reporting on Valerie's disappearance.
* ''Film/LookBothWays2005'' features Mary Kostakidis reporting on the tunnel collapse.
* Creator/ChrisMatthews is the primary newsman in ''Film/ManOfTheYear''.
* At the end of ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'', CNN reporter Bernard Shaw appears as himself reporting on the return of the papa ''rex'' and his infant to Isla Sorna.
* ''Film/TheManWhoSuedGod'' had Chris Bath (one of the better-known Creator/SevenNetwork News Journalists) appear as a newsreader.
* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse:
** The ''Film/IronMan'' movie series includes cameos from Bill O'Reilly of Fox News, CNN's Christiane Amanpour, and MSNBC's Thomas Roberts as well as several reporters from various local markets. %%Note: the "Mad Money" segment in the first Iron Man movie belongs (and is on) LenoDevice.
** In ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'', Darcy and Ian see a news report about Selvig's naked appearance at Stonehenge being introduced by ITV news presenter Steve Scott.
** In a similar vein, the ending of ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' has a number of news anchors and commentators talking about the impact of the events.
** In ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'', while Wanda and Vision are in Edinburgh, they see a report on events in New York by Laura Miller from ''STV News at Six''.
** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Kiernan Pat Kiernan]] is becoming a regular of the franchise, having cameo as an MSNBC TV News Anchor in ''The Avengers'', ''Film/IronMan3'', ''Film/{{Doctor Strange|2016}}'' and ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'', as well as several of the TV series (including ''Series/{{Hawkeye|2021}}'').
** CNN's Anderson Cooper makes several appearances in ''Film/BlackPantherWakandaForever'', reporting on the film's events and their fallout.
* ''Film/TheMedusaTouch'' has news reports from [[{{Creator/ITV}} ITN]] newsreader Gordon Honeycombe. Fellow ITV presenter Shaw Taylor is seen hosting coverage of a Moon mission.
* ''Film/TheMightyDucks'' film series features real-life sportscaster Bob Miller providing the play-by-play for several of the Ducks' games.
* ''Film/{{Miracle}}'' had Al Michaels reprise his play-by-play role for the film as he did in the actual 1980 Olympic game. The film's audio transitions from the filmed play-by-play to the original broadcast of the final seconds of the game leading up to Michaels' immortal "Do you believe in miracles? Yes!" because Michaels himself felt he could never recreate the emotion he had of the actual game.
* ''Film/MissionImpossibleFallout'' features a cameo by Creator/WolfBlitzer presenting a news report about simultaneous terrorist attacks in Rome, Jerusalem and Mecca. [[spoiler:It was really just Benji wearing a mask of Blitzen to trick a nuclear scientist into revealing the passcode for his phone.]]
* 1938's ''Film/MrSmithGoesToWashington'' has Kaltenborn also making an appearance, reporting Jeff Smith's filibuster.
* Bill "Chilly Billy" Cardille, a Pittsburgh reporter makes a fairly long appearance as himself in ''Film/{{Night of the Living Dead|1968}}''. His daughter Lori later went to star in ''Film/{{Day of the Dead|1985}}''.
* ''Film/{{Nope}}'' features a cameo by LA newscaster Hetty Chang of KNBC, reporting on [[spoiler:the disappearance of all the guests at Jupiter's Claim.]]
* In ''Film/OhGodBookII'', [[Series/TwentyTwenty Hugh Downs and Barbara Walters]] appear to discuss Tracy's "Think God" campaign.
* The 2012 remake of ''Film/{{Red Dawn|2012}}'', which takes place in Spokane, Washington, features a cameo by Seattle news anchorman Dan Lewis (of KOMO-TV 4).
* ''Film/TheReplacements'' had the Sentinels' games called by longtime football announcing duo Pat Summerall and John Madden.
* Interestingly, ''Franchise/RoboCop'' had several anchors from ''Entertainment Tonight'' (e.g. Leeza Gibbons) appear as newscasters.
* ''Franchise/{{Rocky}}'':
** Rocky Balboa is interviewed in his [[Film/{{Rocky}} first movie]] (in the meat locker) by real-life reporter Diana Lewis, who had started her news career in Philadelphia. She went on to be an anchor in Detroit for thirty-five years, and made a few more film and TV appearances as a reporter, including a return to the ''Franchise/{{Rocky}}'' franchise in the [[Film/RockyV fifth movie]].
** Long-time Los Angeles sports anchor Stu Nahan did the commentary for the major boxing scenes in the series; after his death, his voice was still used for the computer simulation that sets ''Film/RockyBalboa'''s story in motion.
* ''Film/{{Sharknado}}'':
** Both [[Series/{{Today}} Matt Lauer]] ''and'' [[WeatherReport Al Roker]] not only show up in ''Film/Sharknado3OhHellNo'' but occupy a shocking amount of the running time. There's even a subplot for these two: in addition to constantly returning to recap events from both the weather and news fronts, Al keeps pushing Matt to accept "sharknado" as the appropriate term for the disaster. Matt eventually succumbs to this neologistic peer-pressure.
** ''Film/Sharknado5GlobalSwarming'' has a shark crashing a live edition of ''Good Morning Britain'' as Kate Garraway, Charlotte Hawkins and ''GMB'' meteorologist Laura Tobin are covering the sharknado, with dire consequences for co-anchor Kate Garraway; apparently this sharknado hit the UK on Friday, given absence of Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid[[note]]They don't present on Fridays[[/note]] - [[Series/{{Hollyoaks}} Not they don't have experience of this trope themselves]].
* ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'' features Sky News' Jeremy Thompson (who deserves some sort of major acting award for managing to say "RemovingTheHeadOrDestroyingTheBrain" in his best professional newscaster voice with a straight face), and Creator/Channel4's Krishnan Guru-Murthy as Shaun is flicking through the channels as the outbreak hits.
* In ''Film/ShortCuts'', Howard Finnigan (Bruce Davison) is a pundit for KCAL-TV, an independent UsefulNotes/LosAngeles station. In one scene, he is at a news desk with real life KCAL News anchor Jerry Dunphy, who also appears in the film's final moments to deliver a report on [[spoiler:the earthquake that has just shaken the city and been blamed for one death]].
* Another long-time LA news stalwart, Hal Fishman, played the studio news anchor during the climactic scene of ''Film/SpiderMan3''; he passed away shortly after the film opened.
* At the end of ''Film/SpiesLikeUs'', [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Newman Edwin Newman]] plays himself reporting on U.S.-Soviet disarmament talks.
* In ''Film/StreetFighter'', real NBC/ABC newscaster Sander Vanocur makes an audio-only appearance at the start, as the anchor of "GNT" coverage of the "Crisis in Shadaloo". The real-life inspiration for ''Film/GoodMorningVietnam'', Adrian Cronauer, also makes an audio appearance as a Shadaloo disk jockey in the end credits.
* ''Film/{{St Trinians|2007}}'': Jeremy Thompson of Sky News appears just before the closing credits. The story was about the recovery of Creator/JohannesVermeer's ''Art/GirlWithAPearlEarring'' {{painting|s}} that was found in a changing room.
* ''Film/{{Thunderstruck}}'': Kevin Durant's downward spiral without his talent [[https://youtu.be/NZIiArCI4SI is covered (and heckled) by]] the ''Inside the NBA'' guys, ''Creator/ConanOBrien'' and the local KFOR-TV news anchors.
* In ''Film/Traffic2000'', Columbus TV news reporter Lorene Wagner appears as a reporter interviewing Creator/MichaelDouglas' character in a brief scene filmed in downtown Columbus.
* The movie ''Film/{{Twister}}'' featured several well-known Oklahoma news meteorologists, most notably Gary England from [=KWTV=] during the opening scene and Rick Mitchell from [=KOCO=] later on.
* ''Film/USMarshals'' is partly set in Chicago, and features a few local reporters in the opening scenes.
* ''Film/{{Volcano}}'' features Fox News anchor Shepard Smith as himself.
* ''Film/TheWaterboy'' brought in the actual college football broadcasting staff of ABC Sports (Dan Fouts, Brent Musburger, Lynn Swann) to call the fictitious Bourbon Bowl between the fictitious University of Louisiana Bulldogs and the fictitious SCLSU Mud Dogs. ESPN commentators Chris Fowler, Lee Corso, and Dan Patrick also show up in ''Series/SportsCenter'' broadcasts.
* ''The Wog Boy'' features Derryn Hinch throughout the film, playing a part in the Department of Employment's attempts to either smear Steve Karamitsis as a welfare cheat or play him up as an Aussie battler, depending on the scene.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
!!!'''By Network:'''
* Creator/TheBBC ''revels'' in this, presumably because the national news was, in the days of TV Centre, filmed down the hall from a lot of the TV shows, so it was a matter of popping your head round the door. (These days, the news is based in [[OopNorth Salford]] and drama is made all over the place — but following from ''Series/DoctorWho'', mostly UsefulNotes/{{Wales}}).
** ''Series/AbsolutePowerBBC'' had Prentiss-[=McCabe=] clients interviewed by people like ''BBC Breakfast''[='s=] Dermot Murnaghan and ''Series/{{Newsnight}}'''s Kirsty Wark ... but a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed version of Jeremy Paxman, since they were blackmailing "Jonathan Crossman" to give their client an easy interview.
** The entire BBC newscasting team seemed to appear every two minutes in every episode of ''Series/{{Bodyguard|UK2018}}''.
** Aversion: The head of BBC News banned their reporters from working with their PanelGame ''Series/TheBubble'', where contestants, having been hidden from the world for a week, have to identify real news stories intertwined with fake ones.
** ''Series/DoctorWho'' and spinoffs:
*** Jason Mohammad appeared in four episodes between 2005 and 2008. He was a newsreader on BBC Wales Today at the time.
*** Reporter Alex [=MacIntosh=] appears as himself in the ''Doctor Who'' serial "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E1DayOfTheDaleks Day of the Daleks]]", reporting on the peace conference. And even earlier, Kenneth Kendal in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E10TheWarMachines The War Machines]]".
*** Andrew Marr and Louise Minchin have played themselves on ''Series/DoctorWho'' and ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' respectively. Another BBC newsreader, Huw Edwards, played the Olympic opening commentator in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E11FearHer Fear Her]]", although he was credited for playing the role of the "Commentator". (Six years later, Huw Edwards did indeed commentate on the London Olympics opening ceremony.)
*** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E5ThePoisonSky The Poison Sky]]" has Kirsty Wark delivering a news report.
*** Meredith Vieira cameoed in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E13TheWeddingOfRiverSong The Wedding of River Song]]". With BBC Breakfast's Bill Turnbull and Sian Williams in the same episode.
** This is the main reason ''Film/{{Ghostwatch}}'' managed to fuck with so many viewers (and why media regulator OFCOM has rules that instances of this trope must be shown "in context" to the story, making it obvious to any late-coming viewers who missed any "this is a work of fiction" disclaimers that what's being talked about isn't really happening) -- every anchor was a well-known BBC newscaster.
** ''Series/HouseOfCardsUK'' had appearances by Angela Rippon in the first series, reporting on Henry Collingridge's ascendency to Prime Minister and the Conservative Party's leadership contest following his resignation.
** BBC News presenter Richard Baker made some appearances in ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus''. He also appeared in ''Series/TheGoodies'', along with others such as Michael Aspel, who notably gets [[DeadlineNews squashed by the paw of a giant kitten]].
** In the same vein, ''Series/TheThickOfIt'' also did this a fair amount, including one episode (Series 3, Ep. 5) revolving entirely around the Government and Opposition characters' antics on and surrounding Richard Bacon's show on Radio 5. They also used spliced StockFootage of Jeremy Paxman and ''Newsnight'' in the special "Rise of the Nutters".
** ''Series/TopGear'' had an episode where multiple newsreaders (including Fiona Bruce and Dermot Murnaghan) were involved when Jeremy Clarkson decided to drive the world's smallest car inside BBC Television Centre.
** ''Series/YesMinister'' borrowed a number of reasonably well-known BBC reporters and interviewers (such as Ludovic Kennedy, Sue Lawley, and Nicholas Witchell) to report on the events of the episode (and occasionally to interact with the titular minister - at least once in the talk-show format, but also at least once to conduct a regular journalistic interview).
* Creator/TheBBC's UK rivals {{Creator/ITV}} aren't immune to this either, though they tend to use their regional newscasters in their shows rather than their national news broadcasters.
!!!'''By Region:'''
* TV series set and/or filmed in the UsefulNotes/DFWMetroplex (''Series/TheGoodGuys'' and ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'' are good examples) tend to feature news reports read by long-time KDFW-TV anchor Clarice Tinsley.
* Australian news reader Edwin Maher appeared on an Australian sketch comedy show (I think it was ''Series/TheBigGig'' but can't remember for certain) announcing that the ABC had been bought by Rupert Murdoch and showing the new ABC logo: three breasts.
!!!'''By Series:'''
* ''Series/ThirtyRock'' is set at Creator/{{NBC}}'s eponymous New York studios, so it's rather unsurprising when NBC newscasts show up. Brian Williams--noted for his rather goofy sense of humor--is particularly common. These newscasters also appear outside their shows, just hanging around the building.
* ''Series/AlphaHouse'' features numerous cameos by actual American broadcasters and political commentators from the various big cable networks, and real talk show hosts, to add some level of realism to the events that happen in the show. These include NBC's Rachel Maddow and Chris Matthews, Stephen Colbert, CNN's Wolf Blitzer, Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan, and more.
* ''Series/{{Angel}}:'' In the season 4 episode "Awakening" the late Larry [=McCormick=], real-life Los Angeles news anchor for KTLA (the WB/CW affiliate), appeared "on-air" as himself.
* On ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'', real life Los Angeles anchor John Beard plays himself often, reporting on the Bluth family's problems. Also Creator/ConanOBrien appears in "[[Recap/ArrestedDevelopmentS4E4TheBTeam The B. Team]]".
* ''Series/{{Bosch}}'' has several appearances by LA news anchor Kent Shocknek.
* ''{{Series/Bones}}'' crossed this with RealLifeRelative. David Boreanaz’s father Dave Roberts made a cameo on a tv in the series finale. Roberts worked in UsefulNotes/{{Philadelphia}} though he’s since retired.
* Canadian series ''Series/CornerGas'' featured ''Creator/{{CTV}} National News'' presenter Lloyd Robertson in an early episode; a later episode featured the then-anchors of CTV's ''Canada AM''.
* Jon Snow, lead anchor for Creator/Channel4 news, appears on ''Series/TheBigFatQuizOfTheYear annually'', reporting a song as if it were a news story, for the contestants having to identify the song in question. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynv1uWjNTcI Like This]].
* There's an episode of ''Series/{{Blackadder}} the Third'', "Dish and Dishonesty", where this happens. The plot revolves around trying to get Baldrick elected as a member of Parliament, and features a cameo by political commentator Vincent Hanna, appearing as "[[IdenticalGrandson his own great-great-grandfather]]".
* The third season premiere of ''Series/BreakingBad'' has TV journalists Ashleigh Banfield, Marla Tellez, Jeff Maher, and Dana Cortez reporting on the airplane collision over Albuquerque that happened at the end of the previous season.
* Ukee Washington, of KYW-TV (a Creator/{{CBS}} affiliate in UsefulNotes/{{Philadelphia}}) (it was an NBC affiliate owned by Westinghouse, until the 94 channel switches, and it ended up with CBS), occasionally appears on ''Series/ColdCase'', which is set in Philadelphia.
* The first ''[[Series/TheCosbyShow Cosby Show]]'' DreamSequence episode "The Day the Spores Landed" begins with a story being read by unseen NBC News reporter John Palmer, who was also working for NBC as the newsreader for the network's morning news program, ''The Today Show''.
* Real anchors (and even production graphics) of KLAS Las Vegas have been used on the original ''Series/{{CSI}}''.
* Sportscaster Dick Enberg appears as himself interviewing an NFL first round draft pick in ''Series/{{CSINY}}'''s "Super Men."
* In ''Series/DerryGirls'', the news is read by Northern Irish BBC news presenter Donna Traynor playing herself.
* Several Chicago local newspeople cameoed as themselves during the run of ''Series/EarlyEdition''. Most of the time they then ran an "exclusive" story on the behind-the-scenes making-of during that evening's late news.
* Bree Walker (of KCBS in LA) appeared in this capacity on ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'' (which is strange because that show aired on NBC).
* On ''Series/{{Friends}}'', Joey and Chandler adopting the chick and the duck is precipitated by Joey seeing a report by Sue Simmons of WNBC, 4 New York discussing why ''not'' to get a baby chick at Easter. (The show, of course aired on NBC, but was produced by Warner Bros., this may have been referenced in another episode where some of the friends are fighting over what channel to watch: one wanted to watch channel 4 (NBC); another wanted to watch channel 11 (WPIX, a former national superstation and was then a WB affiliate; it is currently a CW affiliate.)
* Averted in ''Series/FromTheEarthToTheMoon''. Rather than using stock footage of Walter Cronkite or Jules Bergman, [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Emmett Seaborn]] (working for the fictional "NTC" network) was created. This also meant that the same newscaster could be used for every single Apollo mission.
* During the 2000 remake of ''Series/TheFugitive'', ''Series/AmericasMostWanted'' host John Walsh can be seen hosting a segment featuring Dr. Richard Kimble.
* ''Series/TheGoodWife'' often has fictional Creator/{{NPR}} segments read by the actual NPR news anchors.
* The TV series ''Series/{{Greek}}'' lent credibility to a weather-related episode by having an actual ABC local weather reporter do the forecast. Since the series is set in Ohio, the weather reporter was from an Ohio ABC station, given that the show aired on ABC Family (specifically, Stan Stachak from the Toledo formerly ABC-owned station WTVG (they have since sold the station and another in Flint, MI to their former owners (ABC had bought the stations while in a frenzy over the 94 channel switches), which would be so close, but yet so far from where Cyprus-Rhodes actually is in Ohio.)
* The [[Series/HouseOfCardsUS US Adaptation]] of ''House of Cards'' also uses the trope with various anchors, usually from CNN, to give the perspective on the newscycle's reactions to Frank's schemes. Zoe Barnes is interviewed by Soledad O'Brien, and Claire by Ashleigh Banfield.
* The benefits of using real reporters over actors is explained in a DVD commentary for ''Series/{{Leverage}}''; according to Creator/JohnRogers, actors tend to be obviously acting during news scenes while actual newscasters make it feel more natural since they're just doing their job with a new script.
* Series/TheBill second spin-off series M.I.T (Murder Investigation Team) features ITV News presenter Trevor [=McDonald=]. The story was about the murder of Sgt. Matt Boyden. This show is a CrossOver with Series/TheBill.
* Creator/SpikeMilligan did a sketch where Corbett Woodall read an ordinary-sounding news bulletin while Milligan shouted out the newsreader's inner monologue. (Although Woodall wasn't all that well known at the time.)
** Woodall had actually been forced to retire as a newsreader due to crippling rheumatoid arthritis, but continued to appear on screen in shows like ''Series/TheGoodies'' and ''Series/SteptoeAndSon''. Thus, though he was no longer a real newsreader he did play one on TV.
* Angela Rippon famously appeared on ''The Creator/MorecambeAndWise Show'', interrupting a faux news bulletin with a very well remembered dance routine.
* [[KentBrockmanNews Perd Hapley]] of ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'' is played by veteran newscaster Jay Jackson, who has also played TV reporters in other shows and movies.
* the MadeForTVMovie ''Film/Sharknado5GlobalSwarming'' - had appearances from Creator/{{ITV}}'s ''Good Morning Britain'' - Charlotte Hawkins, Kate Garraway and Laura Tobin (Piers Morgan declined to appear) and from Creator/NineNetwork's ''Today'' Karl Stefanovic and Lisa Wilkinson.
* ''Series/{{Spooks}}'' got in trouble with [[Creator/TheBBC their network]] for working with Sky News for a news clip on a TV in the background.
* ''Series/TedLasso'', which focuses on the UsefulNotes/EnglishPremierLeague of [[UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball soccer/football]], has several sports announcers make appearances as themselves:
** Sports broadcasters Arlo White and Chris Powell appear as themselves in several episodes as the lead commentators for AFC Richmond's matches.
** ESPN's Scott Van Pelt appears in the pilot announcing Ted Lasso's hiring at AFC Richmond on a segment of ''Series/SportsCenter''.
** Real life ''Series/SoccerSaturday'' hosts Jeff Stelling and Chris Kamara play themselves. In Season 3, Kamara is replaced by Paul Merson, due to the former's retirement in 2022.
** Footballer-turned-pundit Ian Wright and sports presenter Seema Jaswal appear as themselves hosting a commentary show (''Forza Love of the Game'') in "The Signal".
** Ex-England striker-turned-''Series/MatchOfTheDay'' presenter Gary Lineker makes an appearance alongside ex-France striker Thierry Henry during Beard's DayInTheLimelight.
--->'''Beard:''' Shut up, Thierry Henry!
* A ''Series/TwoPintsOfLagerAndAPacketOfCrisps'' episode, "Dead", had ''North West Tonight'''s Gordon Burns as himself.
* The short-lived series ''Series/{{V 1983}}'' featured assorted newscasters as themselves. Howard K. Smith for instance was a well known news reporter from World War II to the 1970s and appeared as himself covering the Visitors' arrival.
* The ''Series/{{Wishbone}}'' episode "[[Recap/WishboneS2E08BarkingAtBuddha Barking at Buddha]]" had Wishbone watch a news story about a heroic dog on TV. The reporter was played by KDFW anchor Clarice Tinsley. Ms. Tinsley has also guest starred on ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'', ''Series/TheGoodGuys'' and ''Series/PrisonBreak''.
* ''Creator/NancyGrace'' made a brief appearance in season five of ''Series/TheWire'' to discuss the serial killer murdering homeless men in Baltimore. Presumably she didn't realize that the killer didn't exist, and the series was criticizing her brand of sensationalist crime reporting.
* Former NBC correspondent Sander Vanocur appeared as himself as a network anchor in the 1994 TV movie ''Without Warning'', about Earth being hit by three meteors that turn out not to be meteors. [[GoneHorriblyWrong It does not end well.]]]
* ''Series/YouMeAndTheApocalypse'' has Sky News' Anna Jones as herself during the introduction to each episode.
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* Rather interestingly, for the York Theatre Royal {{Pantomime}} in 2010 they had a cameo of the news presenters for BBC Yorkshire. They include a video segment in each panto.
* TV special ''Film/ChildrensPartyAtThePalace'' features Creator/BBC news segments covering the live performance put on by the Goodies and Baddies, and even a ''Series/CrimewatchUK'' segment where Fiona Bruce and Nick Ross report about Burglar Bill stealing the Queen's [[MacGuffin handbag]].
* For the original production of ''Theatre/DamnYankees'', Creator/{{CBS}}'s longtime New York sportscaster Mel Allen recorded voiceover announcements for the climactic game between the Yankees and the Senators.
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* Several episodes of ''Radio/TheGoonShow'' feature fictional news reports by real-life newsreader John Snagge.
* A variant in the Tertiary Phase of ''Radio/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1978'', with a Sportscaster Cameo. The two cricket commentators discussing Arthur and Ford's disruption of the Ashes are played by actual BBC cricket commentators Henry Blofeld and Fred Trueman. (In the book ''Literature/LifeTheUniverseAndEverything'', they're called "Brian" and "Peter", presumably Brian "Jonners" Johnston and Peter Baxter.)
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* In ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'', veteran 1010WINS newscaster John Montone voices [[Radio/GTARadio Weazel News']] radio newsman Mike Whitely.
* ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' had IGN host Jessica Chobot as the model for and voice of television reporter Diana Allers.
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* In one update of ''Webcomic/JackiesFridge'', [[http://jackiesfridge.comicgenesis.com/d/20001018.html Jackie storms into her apartment soaking wet]] and yells, "''Damn'' Sean Cronin and his weather-radar!" At the time the strip was published, he was in fact a meteorologist working for the local Creator/{{ABC}} affiliate.
* Local Atlantan meteorologist Dagmar Midcap (previously with WGCL-46, CBS, and now with KNSD-7/39 NBC in San Diego) made a cameo (as [[http://kevinandkell.com/2010/kk0219.html Dagmar Catnap]]) in the webcomic ''Webcomic/KevinAndKell''.
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