The World Tonight (Philippine TV program)
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The World Tonight is a Philippine television English-language late-night newscast broadcast by Kapamilya Channel and ANC. It was formerly the English language late-night newscast of ABS-CBN from November 21, 1966, to September 22, 1972, and was originally anchored by Hal Bowie and Henry Halasan. Its most known anchor, however, was Angelo Castro Jr. who anchored the newscast from its revival in 1986 to 2009, with a short interval for a few weeks in 1999; Castro would return to the show on a few occasions in 2011. Other newscasters who presented The World Tonight include Loren Legarda (who was Castro Jr.'s co-anchor from 1986 to 1998), Tina Monzon-Palma (who replaced Legarda in 1998 and eventually became the main anchor until 2017), and Karen Davila (who replaced Monzon-Palma for a few months in 2021 before returning to TV Patrol).
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Genre | Newscast |
Presented by | Weekday anchors Tony Velasquez Pia Gutierrez Saturday anchor Stanley Palisada |
Country of origin | Philippines |
Original language | English |
No. of episodes | N/A (airs daily) |
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Running time | 30 minutes (1966–1972; 1986–1999; 1999–2015; 2017–present) 1 hour (2015–2017) |
Production company | ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs |
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Network | ABS-CBN |
Release | November 21, 1966 (1966-11-21) – September 22, 1972 (1972-09-22) |
Release | September 15, 1986 (1986-09-15) – August 13, 1999 (1999-08-13) |
Network | Sarimanok News Network (now ANC) |
Release | May 1, 1996 (1996-05-01) – present (present) |
Network | Kapamilya Channel |
Release | July 27, 2020 (2020-07-27) – present (present) |
The newscast is currently anchored by Tony Velasquez and Pia Gutierrez on weeknights and Stanley Palisada on Saturdays. It airs from Monday to Saturday at 9:00 pm on ANC and every weeknights at 10:45 pm on the Kapamilya Channel. It also airs worldwide via TFC.[1]
The World Tonight holds the record as the longest-running English newscast on Philippine television after the October 2012 ending of RPN's NewsWatch due to the retrenchment of 200 employees amid the network's privatization, although this is disputed since this did not air from 1972 to 1986 due to ABS-CBN's closure because of the country's declaration of martial law.