Today Tonight

Today Tonight
Today Tonight title card
Genre	Current affairs
Presented by	Rosanna Mangiarelli (South Australia) Monika Kos (Western Australia)
Country of origin	Australia
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	19
Production
Location(s)	Adelaide, South Australia Perth, Western Australia
Running time	23 minutes
Release
Original network	Seven Network
Picture format	576i (SDTV)
Audio format	Stereo
Original release	30 January 1995  – 31 January 2014 (except South Australia and Western Australia)
Chronology
Preceded by	Real Life (1992–1994)

Today Tonight is an Australian current affairs television program produced by the Seven Network. It airs in Adelaide and Perth, in direct competition with rival Nine Network program A Current Affair. Editions in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne were previously produced before being cancelled in January 2014.

There are two different editions of the program remaining: Rosanna Mangiarelli hosts the Adelaide edition and Monika Kos hosts the Perth edition. The program was also originally broadcast in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, but on February 3, 2014 the Seven Network cancelled these editions, replacing it with a one-hour news service.

Following the cancellation of Real Life, presented by Stan Grant late in 1994, Today Tonight was launched in January 1995 with separate editions from each of the main metropolitan markets (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth). Three separate bulletins: a Melbourne edition hosted by journalist/columnist Jill Singer, a Sydney edition hosted by Neil Mercer, and a Brisbane edition hosted by Carolyn Tucker. Over summer it was usual for Today Tonight to present a single edition broadcast across the entire East Coast.

Today Tonight was hosted by Helen Kapalos. The New South Wales edition was originally hosted by a myriad of hosts from 1995 until 2001. Neil Mercer initially hosted the Sydney edition, later succeeded by Helen Wellings (1996). Jill Singer originally hosted the Victorian edition, she remained as host until January 1997 when she was replaced by Naomi Robson. and Peter Luck (1997–1998) Stan Grant, ex host of Today Tonight-predecessor Real Life, returned in 1999 following the departure of Peter Luck. Grant was sacked by the Seven Network in 2000 after it was exposed he was having an affair with another then Seven Network personality, Tracey Holmes, and was subsequently replaced by Melissa Doyle. When Doyle went on maternity leave in 2001, the Melbourne edition of Today Tonight hosted by Robson was broadcast into Sydney. This was intended to last only 12 weeks, but the Melbourne version rated higher in Sydney than the local version. This led to Seven Network executives axing the Sydney edition in favour of an East Coast edition. Doyle returned at the end of 2002 to host the summer edition.

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