A newsflash is an important item of news that television or radio companies broadcast as soon as they receive it, often interrupting other programmes to do so.
We interrupt our programmes for a newsflash.
newsflash in British English
(ˈnjuːzˌflæʃ)
noun
a brief item of important news, often interrupting a radio or television programme
Examples of 'newsflash' in a sentence
newsflash
Tuesday, 11, April We interrupt our programmes for a newsflash.
Brandon, Ruth LEFT, RIGHT AND CENTRE
Scheduled radio and television programmes had played solemn music following the first newsflash, and now all stations carried tributes.