all-news

The compound adjective "all-news" is a modern formation, emerging in the mid-20th century with the rise of dedicated broadcast formats. It is a transparent combination of the native English word "all," from Proto-Germanic allaz, conveying totality, and "news," whose core sense of "new things" or "tidings" derives from the Old English adjective nīwe (new), ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root newos. The logic of the word is purely descriptive and functional: it literally denotes an entity that is "entirely news" or "wholly dedicated to news," directly reflecting its modern media application where a channel's entire programming consists of news reports, with no other entertainment or content genres.

Structure: all (entirely) + news (information) - all: From Old English eall (all, entire, whole). In this compound, it functions as an intensifying prefix meaning "completely" or "exclusively". - news: From Middle English newes, a plural form of newe (new thing), derived from Old English nīwe (new). In this compound, it functions as the core noun meaning "reports of recent events".