[Kojak]

How many domestic news channels are there in other countries?

Italy has three: Rai News 24, Sky TG24 and Tgcom24. One is public, the others are commercially funded. I think they are all fairly heavy on rolling news.

Germany is a bit more complicated. They have WELT and ntv, which are both commercial. But AIUI these channels are often showing documentaries instead of rolling news. Then there are public offerings like Tagesschau24 or Phoenix, but I don’t think they qualify as rolling news channels for much of the day either.

France has already been mentioned. Just to name three countries of similar or bigger size in Europe.

[*]WELT does at least do rolling news during the day.
[*]ntv's format is more like the news on the hour, features on the half hour format of BBC World 20 years ago.
[*]Neither Tagesschau24 nor Phoenix are rolling news channels. Tagesschau24 simulcasts all the Tagesschau bulletins on Das Erste (much like how BBC News shows all the BBC1 bulletins) and has a 15-minute newswheel outside of that. There is talk of it turning into more of a rolling news channel, though. Phoenix is like a cross between BBC Parliament and National Geographic, plus some signed simulcasts of ARD and ZDF bulletins.