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The World Tonight is a Philippine English-language late-night newscast television program that airs on ABS-CBN News Channel (ANC). It was formerly the title of the English language late-night newscast on ABS-CBN from November 21, 1966 to September 22, 1972, and again from September 15, 1986 to August 13, 1999. The newscast is aired at 9:00 pm daily, and is 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 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.

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• 2Anchors

Airing history[edit]

The first ABS-CBN era (1966–1972)[edit]

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 later, NewsWatch on RPN. The World Tonight became one of the first Philippine television newscasts 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.

The roster of field reporters for the newscast in its pre-Martial Law days included Orly Mercado, Jun Bautista, Antonio Seva, Tony Lozano, Boo Chanco, Philip Pigao, Lito Tacujan and Danny Hernandez.

Castro-Legarda/Second ABS-CBN era (1986–1996)[edit]

The World Tonight returned on September 15, 1986, coinciding with the reopening of ABS-CBN after the People Power Revolution. It was anchored by Larry Ng (an ABS-CBN executive during the pre-Martial Law era), Angelo Castro Jr. (then the network's news director) and Loren Legarda who came from anchoring rival newscast NewsWatch on RPN with Harry Gasser. Ng left the newscast after a while, and was replaced by Korina Sanchez. However, she eventually left the newscast to concentrate on hosting the morning show Magandang Umaga (later Magandang Umaga Po), leaving Castro, Legarda, and Amy Godinez (who left in 1991) as main anchors. In 1992, Ces Oreña-Drilon (or Cathy Yap-Yang for Business), and Dyan Castillejo (for Sports) joined the program as segment anchors. Sanchez returned as an anchor but only on Saturdays along with Castro (or Bon Vibar as his substitute), Drilon, Castillejo with additional segments by Angelique Lazo (entertainment). It was replaced by The Weekend News in 1996.

Sarimanok News Network/Castro-Palma era (1996–1999)[edit]

The World Tonight began to simulcast on the network's cable news channel Sarimanok News Network launched on May 1, 1996, even it was still airing on ABS-CBN.

On March 16, 1998, Tina Monzon-Palma replaced Loren Legarda and joined Angelo Castro Jr. to the newscast when Legarda ran and later won as the top senator in the next year's elections. Palma was used to anchor rival newscasts GMA Headline News (on GMA Network) from 1986 until 1992 and The Big News (on the reopened ABC, now TV5) from 1992 to 1997. Loren Legarda made her final broadcast on the newscast on March 13, 1998.

However in early 1999, the ratings of English late-night newscasts including The World Tonight started to decline when rival GMA introduced Filipino language late-night news with the relaunch of GMA Network News, anchored by Mike Enriquez and Vicky Morales; it debuted as an English newscast in 1992 and switched to Filipino with the relaunch, surging ahead of the ratings game in the process.

The World Tonight made its final broadcast on the ABS-CBN television network on August 13, 1999. It was then replaced by the network's first Filipino-language late-night newscast, Pulso: Aksyon Balita anchored by Korina Sanchez and Ted Failon. The show competed with Frontpage: Ulat ni Mel Tiangco, which replaced GMA Network News on August 23, 1999.

The ABS-CBN News Channel era (1999–present)[edit]

Two months later, The World Tonight premiered solely on the ABS-CBN News Channel on October 11, 1999 due to the channel's relaunch. Angelo Castro Jr. and Tina Monzon-Palma still remained as anchors at that time. The program continues to be one of the channel's flagship newscasts.

On March 12, 2001, as part of the major programming changes of ABS-CBN, The World Tonight relaunched to its graphics along with other ANC and ABS-CBN newscasts.

Castro retired as a news anchor on September 2009, as Palma went solo. However, he later returned on November 7, 2011 on a sporadic basis until December 26 of that year. He died on April 5, 2012 of lung cancer at the age of 67. Despite his death, Tina Monzon-Palma continued as the sole anchor until now.

On January 12, 2015, 3 days before the Philippine visit of Pope Francis, The World Tonight reformatted as part of the 'internationalization' of the ABS-CBN News Channel and move to an earlier timeslot at 9:00pm and expands into a 1-hour newscast to compete with State Of The Nation of GMA News TV & CNN Philippines Nightly News of CNN Philippines, among other newscasts on the timeslot. New segments & reports with original content were also aired during the launching day.^[1]

On November 21, 2016, The World Tonight celebrated its 50th anniversary. Also this year, ANC marked its 20th anniversary. As part of the celebration of the two important milestones for the channel, an ANC X event was held at 8 Rockwell on December 7, 2016 which was attended by ABS-CBN executives, past and present anchors of The World Tonight and ANC, and prominent members of the business community. A documentary on the history of 'The World Tonight' was aired on ANC on December 30, 2016.^[2]

On January 23, 2017, The World Tonight returned to its original 30-minute running time in order to give way to the new sports newscast, Gametime, that occupied the current last 30 minutes of the program.

On March 30, 2017, Palma took a sabbatical leave and Tony Velasquez temporarily took over as the program's main anchor. On January 29, 2018, Palma returned to the newscast after the leave, making her and Velasquez as the main anchors of the program.

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Anchors[edit]

Weekday[edit]

• Tina Monzon-Palma (1998–2017; 2018–present)
• Tony Velasquez (2015–present)

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Weekend[edit]

• Gigi Grande (Saturday anchor)
• Ron Cruz (Sunday anchor; substitute anchor for Velasquez)
• Vivienne Gulla (Saturday anchor)
• Stanley Palisada

Substitute anchors[edit]

• Mike Navallo
• Michelle Ong
• Bruce Rodriguez

Former[edit]

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• Hal Bowie (1966–1967)
• Henry Halasan (1966–1972)
• Eric Eloriaga (1966–1972)
• Angelo Castro Jr. (1986–2009; 2011–2012)
• Loren Legarda (1986–1998)
• Larry Ng (1986, relief anchor 1987–1990)
• Dyan Castillejo (sports anchor, 1992–1999)
• Ces Oreña-Drilon (business anchor and occasional relief anchor for Legarda/Palma, 1992–1999)
• Cathy Yap-Yang (alternate business anchor, 1992–1999; main business anchor, 2015–2017)
• Amy Godinez-Cuenco (1986–1991)
• Korina Sanchez (weekday anchor, 1986; Saturday/Sunday Edition anchor, 1987–1995)
• Bon Vibar (alternate Saturday/Sunday Edition anchor for Castro, 1987–1995, relief anchor for Castro Jr. 1986–1994)
• Angelique Lazo (Saturday/Sunday entertainment anchor, 1987–1995)
• Frankie Evangelista (relief anchor for Castro Jr., 1994–1999)
• Teodoro Locsin Jr. (2011–2017) (segment anchor for 'Teditorial')^[3]

Segments[edit]

• Final Word Tonight
• In Business
• World Focus
• Teditorial
• 7,107 (Weekends only)
• Business (Weekends only)
• Metro Wrap
• TWT Report
• In The Zone (Weekends only)
• Scene (Weekends only)

References[edit]

1. ^'ANC's 'The World Tonight' to move to earlier timeslot'. www.medianewser.com. Retrieved 2018-09-20.
2. ^'50 years of 'The World Tonight,' ANC Leadership Awards launched'. Manila Standard. December 16, 2016. Retrieved December 20, 2016.
3. ^News, ABS-CBN. 'Teddy Locsin Jr. says farewell to 'The World Tonight''. ABS-CBN News. Retrieved 2018-09-20.

External links[edit]

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• The World Tonight at Telebisyon.net

S2: Showbiz Sabado is a Philippineshowbizorientedtalk show broadcast by ABS-CBN. It was the network's answer to GMA Network's Startalk, which was already established as a Saturday talk show. It aired from March 22 to September 13, 2003.

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History and format[edit]

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In March 2003, Cristy Fermin returned to the ABS-CBN's formidable roster of hosts when she was named main host of the new Saturday gabfest 'S2: Showbiz Sabado'. To add more noise to the show, her erstwhile nemesis Alfie Lorenzo was named her co-host. It can be recalled that the two had a word war over the loveteam woes of Judy Ann Santos and Piolo Pascual. The warring duo was joined by Edu Manzano (Fermin's former co-host in 'Showbiz Lingo Plus') as the show's 'neutralizer'. 'S2' managed to steal 'Startalk's loyal viewers for a while with its no-nonsense showbiz news and segments that were similar to their competitor. However, the fun stopped in September 2003 when 'S2' was axed due to management decision to reformat the Saturday afternoon time slot. Eventually, Fermin was absorbed in 'The Buzz' to form a controversial trio with Boy Abunda and Kris Aquino, marking her return to the Sunday late afternoon time slot.

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Hosts[edit]

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