The World Tonight (Philippine newscast)

The World Tonight
Titlecard used since January 12, 2015
Genre	News, Live action
Created by	ABS-CBN Corporation
Developed by	ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs
Presented by	Weekday anchors Tony Velasquez Weekend anchors Gigi Grande Ron Cruz
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) Annalisa Burgos (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) Pulso: Aksyon Balita (ABS-CBN) The Weekend News/ABS-CBN Weekend News (ABS-CBN, weekends)

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 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, although this is disputed since the newscast did not air from 1972 to 1986 due to ABS-CBN's closure because of the country's declaration of martial law..

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.