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ABC World News Tonight

ABC World News Tonight
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The title card for ABC World News Tonight with David Muir
Also known as
  • John Charles Daly and the News (1953–1965)
  • Peter Jennings with the News (1965–1967)
  • ABC News (1967–1970)
  • ABC Evening News (1970–1978)
  • World News Tonight (1978–2006)
  • World News (2006–2009)
  • ABC World News (2009–2014)
Genre News program
Created by Roone Arledge
Presented by
Weekdays:
Narrated by
Theme music composer
Composer(s) Hans Zimmer (2012–present)
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
Production
Executive producer(s)
  • Michael Corn (2011–2014)
  • Almin Karamehmedovic (2014–present)
Camera setup Multi-camera
Running time
  • 15 minutes (1953–1967)
  • 30 minutes (1967–present)
Production company(s) ABC News Productions
Release
Original network ABC
Picture format
Original release
  • 1953 (1953) (as John Charles Daly and the News),
  • 1965 (1965) (as Peter Jennings with the News),
  • 1970 (1970)
 – present (current format)
Chronology
Related shows
External links
Website

ABC World News Tonight (currently titled as ABC World News Tonight with David Muir for its weeknight broadcasts since September 2014) is the flagship daily evening television news program of ABC News, the news division of the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) television network in the United States. Since 2014, the program's weekday broadcasts have been anchored by David Muir.Cecilia Vega and Tom Llamas rotated as anchors of the Saturday editions and Sunday editions until Llamas was named sole weekend anchor in January 2017.

The program has been anchored at various times by a number of other presenters since its debut in 1953. It also has used various titles, including ABC Evening News from 1970 to 1978, World News Tonight from 1978 to 2006, World News from 2006 to 2009, and ABC World News from 2009 to 2014. It is the second-most watched network newscast in the United States, trailing behind NBC Nightly News in the ratings.

ABC began a nightly newscast in the summer of 1948, when H. R. Baukhage and Jim Gibbons hosted News and Views. This was succeeded by After The Deadlines in 1951 and All Star News in 1952. In the fall of 1953, John Charles Daly began anchoring the then-15-minute John Charles Daly and the News. Daly, who had served as host of the CBS game show What's My Line? contemporaneously, anchored the newscast until 1960, with multiple hosts and formats succeeding him. Anchors of the program during the early 1960s includedAlex Dreier, John Secondari, Fendall Winston Yerxa, Al Mann, Bill Shadel, John Cameron Swayze (formerly of NBC), Bill Laurence and Bill Sheehan. In 1962, Ron Cochran was appointed as full-time anchor, staying with the program until 1965. After Cochran left the program, Peter Jennings, a Canadian journalist who was 26 years old at the time, was named anchor of the retitled Peter Jennings with the News.


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