Our data include a preliminary selection of 166 news videos, 70 videos from Tagesschau, which we use as an example for more traditional, serious media, and 96 comparable videos from Bild TV, which we use as an example for a more recent, alternative news channel. These videos were all produced between 1 January 2022 and 15 March 2022. The length of entire news programs in both channels is around 15-25 minutes. For current purposes, we analyze the first news report of each news video, namely, the top news story of the entire program, which usually lasts from 3 to 5 minutes. The most reported top news themes from January to the middle of March in 2022 were Covid-19 and the outbreak of the Ukraine war.