''The World'' is an Australian

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program which broadcasts on

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from 10pm to 11pm on weekdays. The program is hosted by

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and airs live in all Australian time zones on the

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. It is also streamed live on the ABC's website and broadcast live on

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pay television service and also broadcast on

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throughout the Asia-Pacific region.

History

The program commenced broadcasting on 22 July 2010, the same evening on the launch of

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, with then host Scott Bevan presenting its first edition. The program originally aired at 9pm to 10pm and had a strong focus on overseas news. ''The World'' was originally produced from the ABC Ultimo Centre in

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before moving to the ABC Southbank Centre in

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in early 2014 and with this change it moved to a later time-slots from 10.00pm to 11.00pm along with new hosts Jim Middleton and

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. In September 2014, ABC received budget cuts from the Federal Government, leaving Jim Middleton to accept a redundancy package and Zoe Daniel moved back into ''ABC News'' reporting duties. The program managed to survive the budget cuts with

taking over as the permanent host, while still focusing on overseas news abroad the format was slightly modified to incorporate more localised stories from around Australia.

Presenters

– host (2014–present) *Graham Creed – weather (2010–present) *Yvonne Yong – host (2018–present)

Past Presenters

* Auskar Surbakti – business and occasional fill-in presenter (2014–2017) * Jim Middleton – co-host (2014) *

– co-host (2014) *

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– host (2013–2014) *

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– host (2013–2014) *

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– host (2010–2013)

''The World This Week''

''The World This Week'' is broadcast on

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each Saturday Morning from 4.00am to 4.30am and the

each Saturday Morning from 4.30am to 5.00am and 11.30am to 12.00pm, as well as the

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main channel is repeated each Sunday Morning from 10.30am to 11.00am hosted by

. The show recaps the main overseas news and current affairs from the week and is also replayed on

and

throughout that day.

References

External links

ABC News website

The World website
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