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''World News Now'' (or WNN) is an American overnight
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seen on
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. Airing during the early morning hours each Monday through Friday, the program features a mix of general news and off-beat stories, along with weather forecasts, sports highlights, feature segments, and repurposed segments and story packages from other
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programs; its tone is often lighthearted, irreverent and humorous. Created by David Bohrman, who also served as the original
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, a number of well-known news personalities have anchored ''WNN'' early in their careers, including original anchors Aaron Brown and
Lisa McRee Lisa McRee (born November 9, 1961) is an American television journalist and news anchor, of the Emmy Award Winning LA TIMES TODAY. Born in Fort Worth, Texas. She is a former co-anchor of ''Good Morning America''. Career She was a news anchor an ...
,
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, Kevin Newman,
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,
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,
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and current ''
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'' anchor
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. The program is primarily co-anchored by ABC News correspondents
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and
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, who also anchor the network's early-morning news program ''
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''. ''WNN'' is divided into four segment blocks ("A", "B" "C" and "D") that start with national and international news headlines incorporating some pre-taped reports (with some live wraparounds) from ABC NewsOne correspondents or repeated reports from the network's evening news program ''
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''. The "A"-block also features a national weather forecast (significant weather stories are also reported during the broadcast through analysis from meteorologists employed with
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, which provides forecasts for ABC's
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s) and an often humorous "kicker" story that ends the block. The "B," "C" and "D" blocks usually feature a mix of stories from ''
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'' or the
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, or other live-to-tape or pre-taped segments produced in-studio, depending on the day of the week.


History


1991–1993

In late 1991 and early 1992, ABC,
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and
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each created their own overnight general news programs (with the ABC program competing with the latter two networks' ''
Up to the Minute ''CBS Overnight News'' is an American overnight news broadcasting that is broadcast on CBS during the early morning hours each Monday through Friday. The program maintains a infotainment format, incorporating national, international and busines ...
'' and '' NBC Nightside'', respectively, those two in particular replaced more news/interview formatted programs; ''NBC Nightside'' left the air in 1998, and ''Up To The Minute'' is now called the ''CBS Overnight News'') to compete for viewer demand that was driven originally by
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's 24-hour coverage of the
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, and to supply local affiliates with overnight programming. Until the creation of these news programs, owned-and-operated and affiliate stations of the three networks commonly filled overnight timeslots with movies and/or syndicated programs, while some others simply
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the air for the night. The original
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for the program was ''World News Overnight''; ABC News executives chose to rename the program ''World News Now'' prior to the first broadcast. The program debuted on January 6, 1992, with Aaron Brown and
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as its original anchors. Later that year, the production staff of ''World News Now'' took over production responsibilities for the network's early-morning news program ''
World News This Morning ''America This Morning'' is an American early morning news program, broadcast on ABC on weekday mornings. The newscast is anchored by Andrew Dymburt and Rhiannon Ally, who also serve as anchors of ABC's overnight news program ''World News Now''. ...
'', with both programs sharing anchor staffs as a result. After McRee's departure from ''World News Now'' in January 1993 (at which time Brown anchored solo until he was joined in May of that year by
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, who eventually became the program's longest-serving anchor until her departure from ABC for
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in 1998), the program would begin experiencing significant turnover with its anchor staff that continues to this day. In the tradition of '' NBC News Overnight'' (the predecessor to original rival ''NBC Nightside''), ''World News Now'' has featured serious as well as offbeat news stories interspersed with odd features such as the "World News Polka" (played by comedian Barry Mitchell on the
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), video footage of dancing
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s on Wednesdays (for "Hump Day"), and laughter coming from off-camera.
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predictions were made for obscure and exotic places around the world; some of the locales have had various ties to the show, while some have had
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significance, including
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and Twin Peaks, Washington. The program also often replays story packages from other
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programs such as ''
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'' and ''
ABC World News Tonight ''ABC World News Tonight'' (titled ''ABC World News Tonight with David Muir'' for its weeknight broadcasts since September 2014) is the flagship daily evening news broadcasting#television, television news program of ABC News, the news division ...
''. It has been an apparent training ground for new
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s (see list below) who eventually go on to higher-profile positions with the network or local affiliates. The show is also unique for its interactive segments, some of which pioneered the
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communication that is commonly used on television newscasts today. The ABC News ''WNN''
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has offered viewers questions and comments from the anchors themselves, during the course of the show.


1994–1998

On
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, 1995, ''World News Now'' became the first television program to be broadcast live on the
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, using the
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interface. Victor Dorff, a producer of ''WNN'' at the time, arranged to have the show simulcast on the Internet daily for a six-month trial period. ''World News Now'' was used as the prototype for ''Fred'', ABC's plan to operate a cable news channel. The plan was floated by network management in 1995 and was later dropped within a couple of years due to issues with cable carriage, including competition with the recently launched
MSNBC MSNBC (originally the Microsoft National Broadcasting Company) is an American news-based pay television cable channel. It is owned by NBCUniversala subsidiary of Comcast. Headquartered in New York City, it provides news coverage and political ...
and
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. In the fall of 1998, ABC News entered into a
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, resulting in support employees being locked out from the news division's headquarters for several months. While ''World News This Morning'' continued to be produced in
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with substitute production staff, production of ''World News Now'' was moved to the news division's
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.
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returned to anchor ''WNN'' during the last month of the lockout.


1999–2008

Following its CU-SeeMe trial, ''World News Now'' later attempted another webcast; between 1999 and 2001, the program was streamed live for free on the ABC News website. In 2005, the free behind-the-scenes webcast returned. Among the anchors of the broadcast during this period was
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, who eventually became co-anchor of the newsmagazine ''
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'' and became anchor of the weekday editions of ''
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'' in August 2014, who co-anchored ''World News Now'' from July 2003 to August 2004 (originally with Andrea Stassou and later with
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). On June 8, 2006, ABC
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Correspondent
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learned of the death of terrorist
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near
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,
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. Upon confirmation of the tip, ABC ran a
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at 2:38 a.m.
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, helmed by ''WNN'' anchors
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and Tai Hernandez. The show, which is normally repeated on tape after the initial broadcast, instead went live in all time zones and into the early-morning news program ''
World News This Morning ''America This Morning'' is an American early morning news program, broadcast on ABC on weekday mornings. The newscast is anchored by Andrew Dymburt and Rhiannon Ally, who also serve as anchors of ABC's overnight news program ''World News Now''. ...
''. The on-air and behind-the-scenes staff stayed on-air until ''Good Morning America'' began and took over coverage of the story at 7:00 a.m. Eastern Time. In January 2007, ''World News Now'' celebrated its 15th anniversary, with the brief resurrection of the National Temperature Index (see below) and a new version of the "World News Polka". On August 2, 2007, ''WNN'' abandoned its normal format and ran nearly continuous coverage of the
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collapse that occurred in
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the day before; coverage on the program was anchored by Hernández and Stephanie Sy, and continued into ''America This Morning''. Tai Hernandez left the show on December 18, 2007, in order to spend more time with her children, while Ryan Owens announced on February 29, 2008, that he would be leaving the show to become a full-time correspondent for ABC News. During the week of January 7, 2008, ''WNN'' celebrated its 16th anniversary on the air with retrospective segments on the early days of the broadcast and its anchors.
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was named co-anchor of ''World News Now'' on March 17, 2008, with
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being named as Hubbard's co-anchor on September 17 of that year.


2009–2011

On September 22, 2009, ''World News Now'' became the first network overnight newscast to begin broadcasting in high definition. On July 9, 2010, Jeremy Hubbard left ''WNN'' to become a full-time correspondent for ABC News; he was replaced as Nair's co-anchor on the program by Rob Nelson. In Hubbard's honor, the ''World News Now'' staff looked back at his time with the program and as is tradition when an anchor leaves the show, Hubbard had a picture of his likeness raised into the ABC News rafters. There was also a polka, sung to Hubbard's dog Jake, and Jeremy received a cutout of his likeness as a going away present while also welcoming his replacement, Rob Nelson. On January 24, 2011, ''World News Now'' debuted new graphics for all of the program's segments and began using a new set, a side view of the existing set of ''ABC World News''. On February 17 of that year, Nair announced that she would be departing as co-anchor of ''World News Now'' after the next night's broadcast; the February 18 edition paid tribute to Nair in each of its three segments, including appearances from current and former colleagues including Jeremy Hubbard. Her legacy was to treat the crew to a hot breakfast on her last day. A brief send-off by Nelson to Nair was also given at the conclusion of ''America This Morning''. Correspondent Peggy Bunker (then a former anchor at
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affiliate
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, where Jeremy Hubbard incidentally is now employed) was named as interim successor. On March 11, 2011, the program provided live coverage (in all time zones) of the devastating Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan, featuring updates and pictures from
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; the coverage continued during ''America This Morning'' and ''Good Morning America''. On July 21, 2011, Bunker announced that she would be leaving ''World News Now'' after the July 22 broadcast, which acknowledged her departure in the first and last of its three, half-hour segments during that following night. In addition, a brief send-off by Nelson to Bunker (who subsequently became morning and midday anchor at
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ABC affiliate
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) was given at the conclusion of ''America This Morning''. Beginning on July 25, 2011, ABC News correspondents Tanya Rivero, Diana Alvear and Linsey Davis began rotating as co-anchors alongside Nelson until a permanent co-anchor was named; this lasted until Rivero was named sole co-anchor of the program on September 19, 2011. On October 14, 2011, Rivero shifted to a correspondent role on ABC's daytime news programs and was replaced by correspondent Yunji De Nies as a substitute anchor beginning the following day. On October 27, 2011,
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was named co-anchor of ''World News Now'', taking over the role on January 2, 2012.


2012–2020

On January 6, 2012, the program celebrated its 20th anniversary. Clips and outtakes of the first two decades of ''WNN'' were shown throughout that night's broadcast. On June 11, 2012, the longtime "Morning Papers" segment was replaced by "The Mix," which instead of featuring offbeat headlines from various national and international newspapers, focused on stories trending online. On January 18, 2013, Paula Faris announced that she would be departing ''World News Now'' after the January 22 broadcast; on the night Faris left the program, a brief send-off by Nelson to Faris was given at the conclusion of ''America This Morning''. Diana Perez was named as Faris's successor. On March 12, 2013, Rob Nelson announced that he would be leaving the program effective March 15, 2013 to become a full-time correspondent for ABC News. John Muller was named as successor. Marci Gonzalez filled in for Diana Perez while she was on maternity leave from January 6 to March 26, 2014. Perez later announced on May 29, 2014 that she was leaving ''World News Now'' to spend time with her family; John Muller and the staff celebrated her tenure in all three half-hour segments during the May 30 editions, including a visit by former co-anchor Rob Nelson, who remarked that she was the last of 16 co-anchors he had served with on ''WNN''. On June 12, 2014, John Muller announced he was leaving the program to return to his previous employer, New York's
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, to become its lead news anchor. In October 2014,
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and
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were appointed as co-anchors of ''World News Now'' and ''America This Morning.'' Ninan's appointment became official on April 8, 2015. Around August 2015, TJ left "World News Now" and "America This Morning" to focus on his contributions to other shows on the network. He "unexpectedly" left the show around August 7, 2015. Kendis Gibson has since served as co-anchor of the show. On April 4, 2016, Reena announced she was leaving the show to work dayside. Reena had a special sendoff on April 8, 2016 and left the network for an anchor position at CBSN, the CBS online streaming news service.
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, formerly of ''
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'', took over as World News Now co-anchor, alongside Kendis Gibson. On Friday, January 6, 2017, World News Now broadcast an elaborate 25th Anniversary special. All three half hours, except top of the show news summaries, were devoted to archival show clips and reminiscences by former anchors. Predictably irreverent, WNN creator David Bohrman and original anchor Lisa McRee were live in studio to comment on the show's history. Barry Mitchell, accordion in tow, performed a special 25th Anniversary polka ("The work we do's important here, that's what the bosses say/We're warming up the cameras later on for GMA"). Throughout the hour and a half, Bohrman, McRee and a cardboard cutout of Aaron Brown joined then current anchors Kendis Gibson and Diane Macedo at an on-set open bar, along with past and present World News Now staffers.


2020-Present

As of late summer 2020, a number of stations in major markets dropped World News Now in favor of daytime talk show reruns. These include ABC-owned stations in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Raleigh, San Francisco, and Fresno. To quell viewer complaints in affected cities, the show pointed out that the complete broadcast can still be viewed online at 2am Eastern time, five days a week, at abcnews.com, in the "Live" window. Later in 2020, the decision was made to cease production of World News Now's third half hour, cutting the show down to two separate half hours, aired back to back from 2 to 3am Eastern time, and rerun from 3 to 4am Eastern time.


Production


Newscast structure


First half-hour

''Airs live beginning at 2:00 a.m. Eastern Time. Re-airs at 3:30 a.m. Eastern Time.''


Second half-hour

''Airs live beginning at 2:30 a.m. Eastern Time.''


Third half-hour

''Airs live beginning at 3:00 a.m. Eastern.''


Regular segments

* Top Stories – a summary of national and international stories * Weather – a summary of expected weather conditions and high temperatures for the upcoming day * Kicker story – a selected off-beat or human interest story * ''What to Watch'' – A summary of stories to follow throughout the day (2009–present) * ''Our Favorite Story of the Day'' – a segment usually featuring a human interest or off-beat story (2012–present) * ''The Skinny'' – a segment focusing on entertainment news, celebrity gossip and pop-culture (2008–present) * ''The Mix'' – a soft media segment features off-beat stories,
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clips and funny photographs (2012–present)


"B," "C" and "D"-blocks

After the A-block, the rest of the half-hour is produced using the following segments: * ''
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'' – a rebroadcast of the primary story package from the previous night (or if aired on a Monday, the previous Friday)'s edition of ''Nightline''. * '' This Week'' (Monday mornings only) – a broadcast of the political discussion program's "Roundtable" segment, featuring a debate of
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from both sides of politics. * ABC News Vault – a look back at how ABC News covered a story of historical importance, which usually corresponds to the date of the broadcast. * American Landscape – Team coverage of a major national or international story from the perspective of a local ABC owned-and-operated station or affiliate that covered it, with excerpts from that station's newscasts (commonly the late evening newscast). The segment, which is now rarely seen, is often edited for time (this is noticeable due to sudden jumps of the time/temperature bug used by certain stations whose segments are sourced, and jumps between and during story packages). * GizWiz –
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talks about and demonstrates the newest gadgets and technology. * Viewers' Voice – a segment in which the anchors read viewer opinions about a specific topic from the program's
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page or e-mail inbox. * Insomniac Theater – Appearing on Fridays, the segment features a ''World News Now'' staff member giving their review (from a score of 1 to 5) of a recent movie release. This segment is ad-libbed and usually contains a SOT from the movie ''
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''. Previously, the films were reviewed by the anchors. * Insomniac Kitchen – ''WNN'' anchors visit a local New York City restaurant to get ideas for late-night snacks that viewers can make at home.


Special segments

* Friday mornings close with some version of the "World News Polka" – usually performed by the song's composer, comedian Barry Mitchell (most commonly, the version recorded in 1998) – aired while the show's production credits are scrolled. * When a full-time anchor of ''World News Now'' finally leaves the program, a ceremony of sorts is held on their last broadcast. As the first few anchors moved on, cardboard cutouts were placed in the rafters of the studio for the "Anchor Hall of Fame." Today, this is done with a graphics sequence of a head-shot of the anchor moved into a graphic of the original set's rafters and monitors.


Former segments

* Randomly, throughout the broadcast, a "new e-mail" sound effect will be heard. This is then followed by the ABC News announcer Bill Rice reading aloud an e-mail from a viewer. The anchors then respond (sometimes humorously) to the message. * The National Temperature Index (NTI) – ''WNN'' featured the National Temperature Index (NTI), which is the sum of the day's forecast high temperatures for
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;
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;
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,
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;
Denver Denver () is a consolidated city and county, the capital, and most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Its population was 715,522 at the 2020 census, a 19.22% increase since 2010. It is the 19th-most populous city in the Unit ...
,
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;
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;
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,
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;
Miami Miami ( ), officially the City of Miami, known as "the 305", "The Magic City", and "Gateway to the Americas", is a East Coast of the United States, coastal metropolis and the County seat, county seat of Miami-Dade County, Florida, Miami-Dade C ...
,
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;
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;
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; and
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,
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. The NTI appeared during nightly weather segments until January 6, 2003. It was reintroduced on January 5, 2007, but was dropped again one month later in mid-February. The NTI was originally discontinued when staff meteorologis
Gerard McNiff
revealed the method used for its calculation to
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meteorologist Jan Null, who published the formula in the ''
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''. * Leah at the Movies – a movie review segment in which now-former ''
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projections. * Their News Now – a segment in ''World News Now'' anchors would check in with news producers at local ABC affiliates around the country each night to see what stories they were working on in their local market, or broadcast the first few minutes of an affiliate's late local newscast during a breaking story (for instance, a blizzard in
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would have the opening of that night's newscast on
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shown), or occasionally for a British story pre-
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, the opening of that night's ''
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''. This was usually rotated between four or five local markets, which included Seattle and Denver, and was discontinued sometime in 2005 when "American Landscape" was expanded to a nightly segment. * World News Now "InsomniACTS" – a music performance segment featuring local jazz bands, typically from around the New York City area, that were invited into the studio to play a number on-air. * World News Knows – featured on some nights, a quick trivial knowledge fact was flashed on-screen following the conclusion of a commercial break. * ''WNN'' also featured a full sportscast, which became a scene of comedic fodder for many anchors on the show since many of them did not have a great deal of experience calling sports highlights. This was later replaced by a scoreboard graphic displaying sports scores coming out of a commercial break, leaving time for more general segments. * Asia Business Now – a daily segment summarizing overnight business news headlines from
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, provided by Sumire Sugimoto, an anchor from Japanese broadcaster
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; this was referenced in the early versions of the "World News Polka" as ''"business news from Tokyo."'' * Financial News from the BBC – a business news segments featuring anchors from the
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(regularly reported by Declan Curry), presenting an update on the European financial markets from the
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; the BBC presenters typically stood in front of a video wall looking out on a London intersection, and sometimes a small counter at the bottom of the screen would note the number of
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that passed by in the background. * World News Then – a presentation of news stories and segments from the ABC News program archives that related to or contrasted with a current event; as a bonus, the feature would also often include one of two
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s that aired during the original broadcast. * Morning Papers – a segment featuring several different off-beat stories or funny pictures found in newspapers around the world; it was replaced in 2012 by "The Mix", which is a more modern version using online stories (some of which may come from a newspaper's website).


Scheduling

The show is produced and airs in two half-hour segments from 2:00 to 3:00 a.m. Eastern Time each Monday through Friday morning, and is transmitted in a continuous 60-minute tape delayed loop until 8:00 a.m. Eastern, when ''
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. ''America This Morning'' – which uses the same production and anchor staff as ''World News Now'', although the program is branded as a tie-in to ''
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'' – airs live to the network at 3:30 a.m. Eastern Time and is also tape delayed for many ABC stations. Most ABC stations do not air the entire program loop of ''WNN'' and preempt portions of the program in favor of airing locally slotted programming (usually
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s or syndicated programs) – joining the program in progress anywhere from five minutes to as much as two hours after the start of the newscast – with affiliates looping the show until ''America This Morning'' airs. Although most ABC stations clear ''World News Now'', a small number of affiliates do not air the program: *
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affiliate
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(also owned by Hearst) has aired the program since its debut; however from November 2010 to September 2012, it preempted the Monday edition of the program to air syndicated programming and infomercials – a pre-emption that resulted from the expansion of the station's weekday morning newscast to 4:30 a.m., which resulted in the station pushing ''America This Morning'' ahead by a half-hour (prior to November 2010, the station aired a 25-minute block of the Monday edition joined in progress in-between an infomercial and ''America This Morning''). KOCO began airing the full 90-minute block of the Monday edition, when that broadcast rejoined its schedule in September 2012, as it dropped certain syndicated programs and infomercials from its Sunday overnight schedule. * WAWV in
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) did not clear ''World News Now'' when the station rejoined ABC in September 2011, following a 16-year absence of an over-the-air ABC affiliate in the market (it was an ABC affiliate at the time the program debuted, but operated as a
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affiliate from 1995 to 2011); WAWV had to fulfill existing syndicated programming contracts instead of carrying ''WNN'' at first, which also included the pre-emption of the network's Saturday morning children's program block ''
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have previously preempted the program in favor of airing a simulcast of the cable
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network
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) – pre-empted ''World News Now'', as they all signed off the air during the overnight hours (as such, the three were among the few television stations remaining in the United States that did not operate on a 24-hour schedule).
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), which was acquired by Citadel in April 2011, and prior to September, was the only Citadel-owned ABC affiliate that carried both a 24-hour schedule and cleared ''World News Now''. KCAU and WOI have since been sold to
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and its satellite
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chooses to carry
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and its local automated weather subchannel overnights instead. *
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had chose to run ''
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'' in a loop from its original 3:30 a.m. airing, until its local news starts at 6 a.m. The channel now runs the second half of World News Now. * Over the summer of 2020, network O&Os at first
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, then in late August 2020, New York flagship station
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'' along with ''Daytime Jeopardy!'', a rebroadcast of ''
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'', and the rebroadcast of ''World News Tonight''. The station replaced the early Monday airing with a rebroadcast of ''This Week'' in September 2020 to complete the move. *
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in
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had chose to run local programming instead until its local news starts at 5:00 a.m.


Anchors


Timeline


Criticism

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's attempted suicide in 2007, and she and co-host
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have giggled through segments centering on
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and the
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.


References

ABC-Owned Stations Drop World News Now https://www.mixdexhq.com/tv-news/abc-owned-stations-drop-world-news-now/


External links

* * "ABC's World News Now Marks 30 Years of Overnight News and Polkas" 1-04-202


After midnight: The wee small hours of the morning are the latest battleground for television news
American Journalism Review, Dec. 1993
Tuned In: 'World News Now' has a wink or two for night owls
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, September 2, 1999
National Temperature Index
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