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->'''Reporter:''' "Russian Police are baffled after the mysterious disappearance of the Hungarian crown jewels."

->'''New reporter:''' "The jewels, on loan to the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, were supposedly protected by a five-million-ruble security system."

->'''Yet another reporter:''' "However, at nine o'clock this morning, museum curator Dmitri Chukraj was alarmed to discover that the entire display had somehow been replaced with some Reese's Pieces and a rubber chicken."

* ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldSpecials'': In ''Here Comes Garfield'', a bored Garfield tries to watch TV, but finds the exact same car commercial on every channel.

* Elections in the U.S. are always going to dominate the news cycle in every leap year[[note]]Primarily the presidential election, but since 2010, the midterms have gotten a lot of attention as well[[/note]]. Even when there are other big stories in the news cycle, the election is almost always front and center. Only mass shootings, deadly terrorist attacks, major natural disasters, or [[UsefulNotes/CovidPandemic pandemics]] will take precedence over election coverage. When ''that'' happens, coverage will inevitably focus on how the candidates react to the event, as it can influence their policy positions and public reception.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'': In "Daylight Savings", the Professor sets a 7:30 curfew for the girls, allowing Townsville's villains to rampage through the city with the girls unable to stop them. The reluctant Professor tries to get his mind off of it by watching TV, but every channel is reporting on the destruction the until he finally finds solace on The Time Channel...where he finds out that he forgot to set the clocks back for Daylight Savings. After finally getting the girls out of bed and sending them out to save the day, he goes through the channels again, now reporting on how things are getting back to normal.

* Justified in ''Manga/BlackCat'', after the BigBad kills more or less every major world leader in one day. No one is talking about anything else, obviously.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'' has a montage covering Lightning [=McQueen=]'s disappearance, including a tiny Kei car with huge anime-esque eyes jabbering in Japanese, and an appearance by [[LenoDevice Jay Limo]].

* Anything to do with UsefulNotes/ThePope is serious business due to his international prominence as leader of the Catholic faith. If anything significant happens to the Pope--especially if they step down (Pope Benedict XVI) or die (Pope John Paul II), ''every'' channel will cover the reaction and (if necessary) the funeral. Then the news channels begin to hype up the conclave by profiling every papal candidate, putting up a picture-in-picture camera of the smoke stack on the Sistine Chapel, and debating what color the smoke is. When the decision is made, every network promptly drops everything again.

* While not an exact montage, in ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'', Ozymandias sees the effect of a disaster by watching multiple news channels simultaneously and getting the message that has been sent.
** Same thing in ''ComicBook/KingdomCome'', with Superman watching multiple reports of the Kansas disaster in the Fortress of Solitude.

* ''Film/RunHideFight'' has a social media version when Tristan finds out that the [[AxesAtSchool school shooting]] he and his friends have been carrying out has become the number one trending topic on Website/Twitter. Given that Tristan is an AttentionWhore seeking FameThroughInfamy, he says "about time" when he sees this.

* ''The Life and Death of Peter Sellers'' has this when he is suffering his infamous octuple heart attack in Los Angeles in 1964; back in England his [[MyBelovedSmother mother]] is ''delighted'' to find out that he is sufficiently famous that there are reports on his condition on both the BBC and ITV at once.

** Sent up, and mildly subverted in that only every other channel is showing the news and covering the story, while the other channels conveniently fill in the blanks in the sentences with unrelated statements. Eg:

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': In "Daylight Savings", the Professor sets a 7:30 curfew for the girls, allowing Townsville's villains to rampage through the city with the girls unable to stop them. The reluctant Professor tries to get his mind off of it by watching TV, but every channel is reporting on the destruction the until he finally finds solace on The Time Channel...where he finds out that he forgot to set the clocks back for Daylight Savings. After finally getting the girls out of bed and sending them out to save the day, he goes through the channels again, now reporting on how things are getting back to normal.

* ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'': In "Video Airlines'', Jon was trying to watch TV, and ''every single channel'' was showing the movie ''Kung Fu Creatures on the Rampage 2''.

* ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'': In "Video Airlines Jon was trying to watch TV, and ''every single channel'' was showing the movie ''Kung Fu Creatures on the Rampage 2''.

** The deaths of Princess Diana and most recently Creator/RobinWilliams also come to mind.

-->"Ev"-"er"-"y"-"one"-"is"-"tal"-"king"-"a"-"bout"-"Ra"-"di"-"o"-"act"-"ive"-"man"-"y'all."

* ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' had an episode where Jon was trying to watch TV, and ''every single channel'' was showing the movie ''Kung Fu Creatures On The Rampage 2''.

* Was sent up in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Radioactive Man", where the channel breaks occur every syllable: "Ev"-"er"-"y"-"one"-"is"-"tal"-"king"-"a"-"bout"-"Ra"-"di"-"o"-"act"-"ive"-"man"-"y'all."
** Used also in "Homer Bad Man" where, inexplicably, Homer allegedly touching a babysitter's butt is national news on every channel and Movie Of The Week fodder. You know things are bad when even Channel Ocho is having a field day at your expense.

* Elections in the U.S. are always going to dominate the news cycle in every leap year[[note]]Primarily the presidential election, but since 2010, the midterms have gotten a lot of attention as well[[/note]]. Even when there are other big stories in the news cycle, the election is almost always front and center. Only mass shootings, deadly terrorist attacks, major natural disasters, or [[UsefulNotes/CoronavirusDisease2019Pandemic pandemics]] will take precedence over election coverage. When ''that'' happens, coverage will inevitably focus on how the candidates react to the event, as it can influence their policy positions and public reception.

* Elections in the U.S. are always going to dominate the news cycle in every leap year[[note]]Primarily the presidential election, but since 2010, the midterms have gotten a lot of attention as well[[/note]]. Even when there are other big stories in the news cycle, the election is almost always front and center. Only mass shootings, deadly terrorist attacks, major natural disasters, or [[UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic pandemics]] will take precedence over election coverage. When ''that'' happens, coverage will inevitably focus on how the candidates react to the event, as it can influence their policy positions and public reception.