Newsbeat was a Telefís Éireann television current and regional affairs programme presented by Frank Hall and broadcast in Ireland live on weekday evenings from 1964 until 1971.
Newsbeat was created by Telefís Éireann as a replacement for the station's flagship current affairs programme Broadsheet.
It was the first television programme by Telefís Éireann to be jointly produced by the News and Programming divisions of the new station.
[1] The programme opened with a ten-minute summary of the news and, unlike Broadsheet, concentrated on more off-beat and light-hearted regional filmed reports and unscripted interviews from around Ireland.
News and Newsbeat were subsequently split into two separate back-to-back programmes before the latter found a regular 25-minute slot weekdays at 7:00pm.