The area of articulatory reductions in spontaneous connected speech has been studied for a number of languages, and has contributed to important knowledge about speech communication, production and perception of speech. The work presented here concerns the domain of connected speech, but instead of spontaneous speech, scripted speech is in the focus of attention. The point of interest is to see to what degree (if any) articulatory reductions appear in a formal context with high demands for intelligibility as in news programs. Read speech from the national Swedish TVnews is analyzed. Reduced forms are viewed more carefully, and related to existing theories on connected speech. ome patterns for reductions are found, and compared to findings in spontaneous speech.