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''World News Now'' (or WNN) is an American overnight
news broadcast seen on
ABC. 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
ABC News
ABC News is the news division of the American broadcast network ABC. Its flagship program is the daily evening newscast ''ABC World News Tonight, ABC World News Tonight with David Muir''; other programs include Breakfast television, morning ...
programs; its tone is often lighthearted, irreverent and humorous.
Created by David Bohrman, who also served as the original
executive producer, 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 ...
,
Thalia Assuras,
Kevin Newman,
Alison Stewart
Alison Stewart (born July 4, 1966) is an American journalist and author. Stewart first gained widespread visibility as a political correspondent for MTV News in the 1990s.
Early life and education
Stewart was born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey.
...
,
Liz Cho
Liz Cho is a news anchor at WABC-TV in New York City. She has co-anchored the weekday 4 and 6 p.m. editions of ''Eyewitness News''.
Early life and education
Cho grew up in Concord, Massachusetts, and has a younger brother, Andrew. She was born ...
,
Anderson Cooper and current ''
ABC World News Tonight'' anchor
David Muir. The program is primarily co-anchored by ABC News correspondents
Andrew Dymburt
Andrew is the English form of a given name common in many countries. In the 1990s, it was among the top ten most popular names given to boys in English-speaking countries. "Andrew" is frequently shortened to "Andy" or "Drew". The word is derived ...
and
Mona Kosar Abdi
Mona Kosar Abdi ( so, Muna Koosaar Cabdi) is an American multimedia journalist. She graduated from the University of California, San Diego where she earned a BA in International Studies, Political Science, and Communications.
In January 2019 sh ...
, who also anchor the network's early-morning news program ''
America 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''. ...
''.
''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 ''
ABC World News Tonight''. The "A"-block also features a national weather forecast (significant weather stories are also reported during the broadcast through analysis from meteorologists employed with
AccuWeather, which provides forecasts for ABC's
owned-and-operated stations) and an often humorous "kicker" story that ends the block. The "B," "C" and "D" blocks usually feature a mix of stories from ''
Nightline'' 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,
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS, the abbreviation of its former legal name Columbia Broadcasting System, is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainm ...
and
NBC
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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
CNN
CNN (Cable News Network) is a multinational cable news channel headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by ...
's 24-hour coverage of the
Gulf War
The Gulf War was a 1990–1991 armed campaign waged by a Coalition of the Gulf War, 35-country military coalition in response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. Spearheaded by the United States, the coalition's efforts against Ba'athist Iraq, ...
, 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
sign-on and sign-off
A sign-on (or start-up in Commonwealth countries except Canada) is the beginning of operations for a radio or television station, generally at the start of each day. It is the opposite of a sign-off (or closedown in Commonwealth countries exce ...
the air for the night. The original
working title
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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
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 ...
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'', 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
Thalia Assuras, who eventually became the program's longest-serving anchor until her departure from ABC for
CBS News 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
accordion), video footage of dancing
camels on Wednesdays (for "Hump Day"), and laughter coming from off-camera.
Weather
Weather is the state of the atmosphere, describing for example the degree to which it is hot or cold, wet or dry, calm or stormy, clear or cloud cover, cloudy. On Earth, most weather phenomena occur in the lowest layer of the planet's atmos ...
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
popular culture
Popular culture (also called mass culture or pop culture) is generally recognized by members of a society as a set of practices, beliefs, artistic output (also known as, popular art or mass art) and objects that are dominant or prevalent in a ...
significance, including
Cicely, Alaska and
Twin Peaks, Washington.
The program also often replays story packages from other
ABC News
ABC News is the news division of the American broadcast network ABC. Its flagship program is the daily evening newscast ''ABC World News Tonight, ABC World News Tonight with David Muir''; other programs include Breakfast television, morning ...
programs such as ''
Nightline'' and ''
ABC World News Tonight''. It has been an apparent training ground for new
news presenter
A news presenter – also known as a newsreader, newscaster (short for "news broadcaster"), anchorman or anchorwoman, news anchor or simply an anchor – is a person who presents news during a news program on TV, radio or the Internet. ...
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
email
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communication that is commonly used on television newscasts today. The ABC News ''WNN''
internet forum
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has offered viewers questions and comments from the anchors themselves, during the course of the show.
1994–1998
On
November 23
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, 1995, ''World News Now'' became the first television program to be broadcast live on the
Internet
The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a '' network of networks'' that consists of private, pub ...
, using the
CU-SeeMe
CU-SeeMe is an Internet videoconferencing client. CU-SeeMe can make point to point video calls without a server or make multi-point calls through server software first called a "reflector" and later called a "conference server" or Multipoint Co ...
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 politi ...
and
Fox News
The Fox News Channel, abbreviated FNC, commonly known as Fox News, and stylized in all caps, is an American multinational conservative cable news television channel based in New York City. It is owned by Fox News Media, which itself is owne ...
.
In the fall of 1998, ABC News entered into a
labor dispute
A labor dispute is a disagreement between an employer and employees regarding the terms of employment. This could include disputes regarding conditions of employment, fringe benefits, hours of work, tenure, and wages to be negotiated during co ...
, 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
New York City
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the Un ...
with substitute production staff, production of ''World News Now'' was moved to the news division's
London
London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary dow ...
news bureau
A news bureau is an office for gathering or distributing news. Similar terms are used for specialized bureaus, often to indicate a geographic location or scope of coverage: a ‘Tokyo bureau’ refers to a given news operation's office in Tokyo; ' ...
.
Mark Mullen 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
David Muir, who eventually became co-anchor of the newsmagazine ''
20/20'' and became anchor of the weekday editions of ''
ABC World News Tonight'' in August 2014,
who co-anchored ''World News Now'' from July 2003 to August 2004 (originally with
Andrea Stassou and later with
Tamala Edwards).
On June 8, 2006, ABC
White House
The White House is the official residence and workplace of the president of the United States. It is located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., and has been the residence of every U.S. president since John Adams in ...
Correspondent
Martha Raddatz learned of the death of terrorist
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi near
Baqubah
Baqubah ( ar, بَعْقُوبَة; BGN: Ba‘qūbah; also spelled Baquba and Baqouba) is the capital of Iraq's Diyala Governorate. The city is located some to the northeast of Baghdad, on the Diyala River. In 2003 it had an estimated populat ...
,
Iraq
Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to the north, Iran to the east, the Persian Gulf and K ...
. Upon confirmation of the tip, ABC ran a
breaking news
Breaking news, interchangeably termed late-breaking news and also known as a special report or special coverage or news flash, is a current issue that broadcasters feel warrants the interruption of scheduled programming or current news in orde ...
at 2:38 a.m.
Eastern Time
The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing part or all of 23 states in the eastern part of the United States, parts of eastern Canada, the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico, Panama, Colombia, mainland Ecuador, Peru, and a small por ...
, helmed by ''WNN'' anchors
Ron Corning 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''. 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
I-35W Mississippi River bridge collapse that occurred in
Minneapolis
Minneapolis () is the largest city in Minnesota, United States, and the county seat of Hennepin County. The city is abundant in water, with thirteen lakes, wetlands, the Mississippi River, creeks and waterfalls. Minneapolis has its origins ...
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.
Jeremy Hubbard
Jeremy David Hubbard (born August 19, 1972 in Glenwood Springs, Colorado) is an American news anchor for KDVR-TV and KWGN-TV in Denver. He was a New York-based correspondent for ABC News, and reported for all ABC News broadcasts and platforms, in ...
was named co-anchor of ''World News Now'' on March 17, 2008, with
Vinita Nair 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
Fox affiliate
KDVR
KDVR (channel 31) is a television station in Denver, Colorado, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. It is simulcast full-time over satellite station KFCT (channel 22) in Fort Collins. The two stations are owned by Nexstar Media Gr ...
, 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
NHK World-Japan
NHK World-Japan (formerly and also known simply as NHK World) is the international arm of the Japanese State media, state-controlled public broadcaster NHK. Its services are aimed at the overseas market, similar to those offered by other nationa ...
; 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
Seattle
Seattle ( ) is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States. It is the seat of King County, Washington. With a 2020 population of 737,015, it is the largest city in both the state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest regio ...
ABC affiliate
KOMO-TV) 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,
Paula Faris
Paula Faris (born October 26, 1975) is an American journalist and television correspondent, formerly of ABC News. She is known for her tenure as co-anchor of ''Good Morning America Weekend'' from 2014 to 2018 and as co-host of '' The View'' from 2 ...
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
WPIX, to become its lead news anchor. In October 2014,
T. J. Holmes and
Reena Ninan 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.
Diane Macedo, formerly of ''
Imus in the Morning
''Imus in the Morning'' was a long-running radio show hosted by Don Imus. The show originated on June 2, 1968, on various stations in the Western United States and Cleveland, Ohio before settling on WNBC radio in New York City in 1971. In Octobe ...
'', 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,
viral video
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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:
* ''
Nightline'' – 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
pundit 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 –
Dick DeBartolo 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
Facebook
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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 ''
press kit
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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
Boston
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,
Massachusetts
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;
Casper, Wyoming;
Dallas
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,
Texas
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;
Denver
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,
Colorado
Colorado (, other variants) is a state in the Mountain states, Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It encompasses most of the Southern Rocky Mountains, as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the wes ...
;
Fargo, North Dakota;
Las Vegas
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,
Nevada
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;
Miami
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,
Florida
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;
,
Louisiana
Louisiana , group=pronunciation (French: ''La Louisiane'') is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States. It is the 20th-smallest by area and the 25th most populous of the 50 U.S. states. Louisiana is borde ...
;
Raleigh, North Carolina
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; and
Seattle
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,
Washington. 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 McNiffrevealed the method used for its calculation to
San Francisco Bay Area
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meteorologist Jan Null, who published the formula in the ''
San Jose Mercury News
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''.
* Leah at the Movies – a movie review segment in which now-former ''
People
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'' magazine film critic Leah Rozen gave her top picks for the week's new feature film releases, along with
box office 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
Buffalo, New York
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would have the opening of that night's newscast on
WKBW-TV
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shown), or occasionally for a British story pre-
BBC America
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, the opening of that night's ''
BBC News
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BBC News at Ten''. 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
Asia
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, provided by Sumire Sugimoto, an anchor from Japanese broadcaster
NHK
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NHK operates two terrestr ...
; 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