diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index f9b24985..0cc229c7 100755
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 
 ### Fixed
 - Updatenotification module: Properly handle race conditions, prevent crash.
+- Send `NEWS_FEED` notification also for the first news messages which are shown
 
 ## [2.8.0] - 2019-07-01
 
@@ -40,18 +41,18 @@ This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 - Automatically try to fix eslint errors by passing `--fix` option to it
 - Added sunrise and sunset times to weathergov weather provider [#1705](https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/issues/1705)
 - Added "useLocationAsHeader" to display "location" in `config.js` as header when location name is not returned
-- Added to `newsfeed.js`: in order to design the news article better with css, three more class-names were introduced: newsfeed-desc, newsfeed-desc, newsfeed-desc 
+- Added to `newsfeed.js`: in order to design the news article better with css, three more class-names were introduced: newsfeed-desc, newsfeed-desc, newsfeed-desc
 
 ### Updated
 - English translation for "Feels" to "Feels like"
 - Fixed the example calender url in `config.js.sample`
 - Update `ical.js` to solve various calendar issues.
-- Update weather city list url [#1676](https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/issues/1676) 
+- Update weather city list url [#1676](https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/issues/1676)
 - Only update clock once per minute when seconds aren't shown
 
 ### Fixed
-- Fixed uncaught exception, race condition on module update 
-- Fixed issue [#1696](https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/issues/1696), some ical files start date to not parse to date type 
+- Fixed uncaught exception, race condition on module update
+- Fixed issue [#1696](https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/issues/1696), some ical files start date to not parse to date type
 - Allowance HTML5 autoplay-policy (policy is changed from Chrome 66 updates)
 - Handle SIGTERM messages
 - Fixes sliceMultiDayEvents so it respects maximumNumberOfDays
diff --git a/modules/default/calendar/vendor/ical.js/node-ical.js b/modules/default/calendar/vendor/ical.js/node-ical.js
index fd817bef..14855d63 100644
--- a/modules/default/calendar/vendor/ical.js/node-ical.js
+++ b/modules/default/calendar/vendor/ical.js/node-ical.js
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ ical.objectHandlers['RRULE'] = function(val, params, curr, stack, line){
 var originalEnd = ical.objectHandlers['END'];
 ical.objectHandlers['END'] = function (val, params, curr, stack) {
 	// Recurrence rules are only valid for VEVENT, VTODO, and VJOURNAL.
-	// More specifically, we need to filter the VCALENDAR type because we might end up with a defined rrule 
+	// More specifically, we need to filter the VCALENDAR type because we might end up with a defined rrule
 	// due to the subtypes.
 	if ((val === "VEVENT") || (val === "VTODO") || (val === "VJOURNAL")) {
 		if (curr.rrule) {
diff --git a/modules/default/newsfeed/newsfeed.js b/modules/default/newsfeed/newsfeed.js
index f1cd53de..d358110c 100644
--- a/modules/default/newsfeed/newsfeed.js
+++ b/modules/default/newsfeed/newsfeed.js
@@ -327,6 +327,11 @@ Module.register("newsfeed",{
 
 		self.updateDom(self.config.animationSpeed);
 
+		// Broadcast NewsFeed if needed
+		if (self.config.broadcastNewsFeeds) {
+			self.sendNotification("NEWS_FEED", {items: self.newsItems});
+		}
+
 		timer = setInterval(function() {
 			self.activeItem++;
 			self.updateDom(self.config.animationSpeed);