the amount of time available for news in a program. Take away the opening animation, headlines, commercials, sports, weather, promos, stings and credits, and you have the news hole. Same as in print. May also refer to the blocks dedicated to news (as opposed to the CA hole).

The news hole is the amount of content a news provider needs to create in every publishing cycle.

Amount of space for news, features, photographs and graphics.

Space reserved for material other than advertising.

Space available in each section of the paper for news stories.