Can you watch TV and the news in GTA 6?

The news in GTA 6 is on screen three times in Trailer 1, twice from Weazel News and once from Mega Noticias, and its stories read like the things a player does. This page is what those broadcasts show, the two television sets in the frames we have, what nobody knows about watching them, and how the last game put a television in every safehouse.

What the material shows

At 1:03 a broadcast fills the frame: aerial footage of a wet highway with a car on its roof in the middle lanes and two police cars beside it, a LIVE badge at the top left, and along the bottom the Weazel block with NEWS in white on red and 10:34 ET under it, a red banner reading NO (OVER) TURNING ZONE! and a white strapline, COPS ARREST MAN WHO FLIPPED HIS CAR AFTER PEEWEES DINE AND DASH. A second station is on screen at 1:04: the Mega Noticias bug sits in the lower right corner of a frame filled by a gold corrections badge and a man with purple hair and a tattooed face, in an orange jumpsuit. At 1:06.67 a second Weazel item carries the same block, a banner reading DIRT-BIKE DIRT-BAGS, the strapline COPS FAIL TO STOP THUGS ON MOTORBIKES TERRORIZING VICE CITY, and under it a line of headlines cut off at both ends of its strip. The news page carries both Weazel frames.

A news helicopter has a page of its own: a press still catches it close enough to read the registration N88892 on the upper fuselage, NEWS down the side and REPORTING THE RIGHT NEWS on a white panel behind the open doorway, where a cameraman sits. Nothing on it names the station, and nothing in the three news frames shows what filmed them. Weazel News itself, the brand on the block, has a page as well.

Two television sets are in the frames as objects. At 2:09 of Trailer 2 a flat screen on a low wooden cabinet has an Ammu-Nation commercial on it, in a room with a window onto a wooden deck and water beyond; a white console with a blue light strip stands beside the set, and a controller and two bottles of beer are on the glass table in front of it. In the press still of the pool bar a set on the wall shows a giant open-jawed alligator towering over people on a path, with palms behind. No one in either picture faces the screen.

What the frames establish is the dressing: aerial footage of an incident under a live badge, a station block with a clock, a headline, a strapline and a line of headlines. How tightly that is tied to what the player does, and whether the room with the commercial is one the player uses, the frames we have do not say, and none of them shows a channel being changed.

What nobody knows

• Whether broadcasts react to the player’s actions.
• Whether you can watch the news on a television you own.
• Whether Mega Noticias, the Spanish-language station, runs the same stories.
• Whether the news helicopter can be shot down, and whether that changes anything.

How Grand Theft Auto V did it

This is the reference, not a prediction. In GTA V the television lived in the safehouses, and the GTA Wiki’s page on it says the player “must be seated to control the television”; sometimes a protagonist you switched to was already on the sofa watching. The two main channels were Weazel and CNT, both broadcast from the transmission tower behind the Vinewood sign. The news did react: in the mission Mr. Philips, Dave Norton tunes in to the Weazel News report of the Vangelico robbery Michael and Franklin have just pulled, and the wiki notes that televised reports moved the plot in other missions too. Weazel ran on the radio as well, with bulletins that “will update the player as they navigate through the games’ respective stories”. In certain missions a Maverick’s on-board camera served as its heli-cam, and it kept a fleet of Rumpo news vans.

What this page becomes on launch day

From 19 November 2026 this guide is rewritten from the release build: where you watch, which channels there are, and whether the news reports what you did, each with the date it was tested. Until then the short answer at the top stands.