The news programme is an integral and compulsory part of every television programme. For a television station to be granted the right to broadcast, broadcasters have to broadcast a daily news programme of at least 30 minutes, in which they are obliged to broadcast at least one news show of at least 15 minutes, unless otherwise agreed in the concession contract. It has been noticed that news shows, which have the purpose of informing the citizens about all current events, broadcast numerous stories containing footage of disturbing content, without a prior verbal or written warning that footage of disturbing content follows. The paper presents the analysis results of the frequency of occurrence of footage of disturbing content in 40 news shows on national television, and three commercial televisions, Dnevnik HRT-a (Croatian Television Daily News), Dnevnik Nove tv (Nova tv Daily News), RTL Danas (RTL Today), Dnevnik u 18 / Zagreb N1 (6 PM Daily News / Zagreb N1). The analysis found, inter alia, that in the period between 1 June 2018 and 10 June 2018, 152 stories containing footage of disturbing content were broadcasted, and that no television station had issued a prior verbal or written warning thereof. The normative framework, which should primarily provide protection to children and minors, but also give viewers the right to choose what to watch, still does not provide adequate protection to either.