Financial Report, and other business newscasts are seen on weekdays. Also, programmes have in-vision captions for the hearing impaired, as mandated by local regulations (this was originally only used on the Jade version's News File, 新聞簡報) or News Daily (TVB Pearl). In the past, both channels aired a 5-minute News File, giving the top headlines of the day and a preview of the News Roundup; it usually aired at various times around 21:00. The starting sequence of the news features the sound of the Morse code signal for "NEWS TODAY" ( ), with the pitch at about 1700 Hz. Standalone weather reports are aired after the News at 6:30 on TVB Jade, the News at 7:30 on TVB Pearl and Putonghua News on TVB J2. They are famous for Freddy (), a cartoon figure which gives the forecast for the next day. The highly stylised and comical format is considered an institution, and is widely recognised by many Hong Kong people. (The rest of the weather forecast is read by an actual human presenter.) After the news and/or weather is presented, Earth Live usually follows afterwards, which is produced by earthTV. However, not all newscasts on TVB Jade are not followed by that programme, but will instead return to the current programme. The only exception is Good Morning Hong Kong, which would air Earth Live first, then immediately start the morning news. Earth Live also airs a couple more times during their morning news programme. News programmes Investigative reports and extended news stories are often shown on three programmes: Sunday Report () and News Magazine () on TVB Jade, The Pearl Report () on TVB Pearl. Sunday Report and The Pearl Report focus more on stories involving individuals and has a softer approach, while News Magazine focuses more on social problems in general. News channel Additionally, TVB's news department is also responsible for the output on the 24-hour news channel, TVBN (), carried on the pay TV platform TVB Pay Vision () and iNews () (Start from 11 November 2008) on HK Digital TV Broadcast (Channel 83). In June 2006, another news channel, TVBN 2 (), will also be carried on the pay TV platform TVB Pay Vision. The transmission of iNews () have been upgraded from SDTV to HDTV video format on 30 June 2012. Criticism In a 2019 survey conducted by the Chinese University of Hong Kong, TVB