Translation of international news reports usually falls under the category of ‘news translation’ as such, regardless of salient differences between print news, online news and broadcast news. Such an umbrella term has been adopted to cover every possibility without taking into account the fact that some perspectives fail to reflect what is actually happening in the broadcast newsroom, especially when most literature on ‘news translation’ tends to focus on print news. This paper attempts to address the missing link by focusing primarily on translation for the broadcast news media and exploring its relevance to oral interpreting. This paper starts by deconstructing the process in broadcast news translation and then moves out to look at the theory and nature of interpreting with a view to unveiling where interpreting theory and broadcast news translation converge and where they conflict.