From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishthe newsthe newsAMTa regular television or radio programme that gives you reports of recent events the ten o’clock news Let’s watch the news. Be quiet. I want to listen to the news.on the news It must be true – I heard it on the news last night.switch/turn/put on the news (=turn the television or radio on for the news) → news
Examples from the Corpus
the news• I don't know if you've been following the news, but I heard that three American servicemen were killed there.• Channel 3 has the evening news.• She's been in the news a lot recently.• Did you hear anything on the news about the bomb?• They said on the news that the visit has been cancelled.• He always reads the sports news first.• I was listening to the news this morning, but I didn't catch what they said about it.• Welcome to the early evening news.• I was watching the news last night and they were talking about it. 