The World Tonight | |
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Titlecard used since January 12, 2015
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Genre | News, Live action |
Created by | ABS-CBN Corporation |
Developed by | ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs |
Presented by |
Weekday anchors Tina Monzon-Palma Tony Velasquez Weekend anchors Gigi Grande Ron Cruz |
Narrated by | Henry Halasan (1966-1972) Peter Musngi (1986-present) |
Theme music composer |
Ryan Cayabyab (arranged by ABS-CBN Philharmonic Orchestra) |
Country of origin | Philippines |
Original language(s) | English |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) | Luz Rimban (supervising producer) Tina Monzon-Palma (managing editor) Jove Francisco (executive producer) |
Location(s) | ABS-CBN Newscenter Manila Quezon City, Philippines |
Running time | 30 minutes (1966–1972; 1986–2015; 2017-present) 1 hour (2015–2017) |
Release | |
Original network |
ABS-CBN (1966–1972, 1986–1999) ABS-CBN News Channel (1996–present) |
Picture format |
480i SDTV 1080i HDTV |
Audio format |
Mono (1966-1972, 1986-1987) Stereo (1987-present) |
Original release |
ABS-CBN First incarnation: November 21, 1966 – September 22, 1972 Second incarnation: September 15, 1986 – August 13, 1999 ABS-CBN News Channel May 1, 1996 – present |
Chronology | |
Followed by |
Newsbreak (DZXL-TV Channel 9/4, 1967–1972) Pulso: Aksyon Balita (ABS-CBN, weekdays 1999–2000) The Weekend News/ABS-CBN Weekend News (ABS-CBN, weekends 1995–2004) |
The World Tonight is an English language late-night newscast of the ABS-CBN News Channel (ANC) and it was formerly the English language late-night newscast of ABS-CBN from November 21, 1966 to September 22, 1972 and from September 15, 1986 to August 13, 1999. It is aired at 9:00pm daily and anchored by Tina Monzon-Palma and Tony Velasquez on weekdays, and by Gigi Grande on Saturdays and Ron Cruz on Sundays.
The World Tonight holds the record as the longest-running English newscast on Philippine television after RPN's NewsWatch's demise in October 2012.
The World Tonight premiered on November 21, 1966 at 8:30pm on CBN's DZXL-TV Channel 9 (predecessor of ABS-CBN) as the network's answer to ABC's Big News, The News with Uncle Bob on RBS, and NewsWatch on RPN. The World Tonight became the first Philippine television newscast to broadcast in color. Co-anchoring the newscast were Hal Bowie, a veteran announcer from ABS-CBN radio, Eric Eloriaga, and Henry Halasan, a former ABS-CBN Cebu talent who was transferred to the network's main offices in Manila as a sales executive. Bowie, who was in his 70s when the newscast first aired, later bowed out of the newscast due to health reasons and concentrated instead on producing news reports for the network. This left Halasan and Eloriaga as main anchormen of the program.
The program was transferred to its sister station, ABS' DZAQ-TV Channel 3 on the 10:00pm time slot a year later when ABS-CBN formally merged. This happened when Channel 9 premiered Newsbreak with Bong Lapira, who transferred from rival newscast Big News on ABC. The newscast continued after Channel 3 moved to the present Channel 2 and Channel 9 moved to Channel 4 for Metro Manila in 1969 until ABS-CBN's closure by the Marcos government during the declaration of Martial Law on September 22, 1972 with his sign Proclamation No. 1081.