SET iNews

SET iNews Channel (Chinese: 三立iNEWS; pinyin: Sānlì iNEWS) is a Taiwanese 24-hour news channel, broadcasting predominantly in Mandarin, owned by Sanlih E-Television and launched in May 2011 as SET Finance (Chinese: 三立財經台; pinyin: Sānlì Cáijīng-tái), switching to its current name on 26 June 2017. It is a sister channel of SET News, 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.