Action Tidings was a news source, a media outlet, that originated from a studio located within the Action Tidings Tower. This tower resided in Ugnorgrad, the Ugnaught metropolis situated one kilometer beneath Cloud City on the planet of Bespin. Ugnaught journalists broadcasted real-time reports of daily occurrences from their floatboat convoys, which were kept afloat using sizable sacs filled with tibanna gas. Three years following the Battle of Yavin, Ars Fivvle, an Action Tidings news presenter, alongside his cameraman, Pordy, documented the Rebel uprising against Captain Hugo Treece, the Imperial administrator in charge of Cloud City.
The final Action Tidings broadcast by Ars Fivvle was the episode titled Ugnaughts' Progress, which featured a retrospective of the previous 50 years of archived broadcast material.