World News Now
Genre	News
Running time	1 hours, 30 minutes (often repeated locally)
Starring	Ron Corning (co-anchor) Heather Cabot (co-anchor) David Kerley (correspondent)
Country of origin	United States
Original network/channel	ABC
Original run	1992 – present
No. of episodes	N/A (airs daily)
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

"More insomniacs get their news from World News Now" vanity card; clear parody of the late 1990s "More Americans get their news from ABC News" bumpers.

A pre-CNN Anderson Cooper says "talk to the hand".

A pre-CNN Aaron Brown laughs after Elmo collapses in front of a Menorah.

ABC World News Now (WNN), premiered in 1992, is ABC's overnight news program. Its presentation is typically lighthearted, irreverent and comical. Several well-known news personalities, including Thalia Assuras, Aaron Brown, Andrea Stassou and Anderson Cooper have anchored WNN early in their careers. Image File history File links Abc_wnn_logo04_t. ... News is new information or current events. ... The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. ... The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is a television and radio network in the United States. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... Image File history File links Wnninsomn. ... Image File history File links Wnninsomn. ... Image File history File links Wnn0424_1. ... Image File history File links Wnn0424_1. ... Image File history File links Wnnelmo2. ... Image File history File links Wnnelmo2. ... Elmo in Elmos World. ... Yarmulke and Menorah from the Harry S Truman collection The menorah, one of Judaisms oldest symbols, is a seven-branched candelabrum or oil lamp. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is a television and radio network in the United States. ... Thalia Assuras is a Canadian-born television journalist and news anchor of Greek descent who has worked for U.S. television networks since 1993. ... Aaron Brown (November 10, 1948 was born to Jewish immigrants from Russia) is the former host of NewsNight with Aaron Brown on the television network CNN. Aaron Brown went to the University of Minnesota. ... Anderson Cooper Anderson Hays Cooper (born June 3, 1967) is a television journalist currently working for the CNN television network. ... ITV newscaster Mark Austin. ...

History

Generally watched by insomniacs (in the late 1990s, its slogan was "More insomniacs get their news from World News Now than from any other source."), college students, and parents of infants, it has featured serious as well as offbeat news interspersed with odd features such as the "World News Polka" played by Barry Mitchell on the accordion, video footage of dancing camels, and laughter coming from off camera. Weather predictions are made for obscure and exotic places around the world, some of which have ties to the show for various reasons. It also often replays clips from Nightline, ABC World News Tonight, and other ABC News programming. It has been a training ground for several young up and coming news anchors (See List Below) which eventually go on to higher profile network or local affiliate positions. The show is also unique for its interactive segments, some of which pioneered the email communication that is commonly used on newscasts today. The ABC News WNN Message board has been known offer to viewers questions and comments from the anchors themselves, during the course of the show. It has been suggested that Primary insomnia be merged into this article or section. ... BARRY MITCHELL (b. ... A button accordion An accordion is a musical instrument of the handheld bellows-driven free reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as squeezeboxes. ... Species Camelus bactrianus Camelus dromedarius A camel is either of the two species of large even-toed ungulate in the genus Camelus, the Dromedary (single hump) and the Bactrian Camel (double hump). ... Weather is an all-encompassing term used to describe all of the many and varied phenomena that can occur in the atmosphere of a planet. ... Nightline is a late-night hard news program broadcast by ABC in the United States, and has a franchised formula to other networks and stations elsewhere in the world. ... ABC World News Tonight (often abbreviated as WNT) is the ABC television networks flagship evening news program. ... ABC News is a division of ABC television and radio networks (ABC). ... A news anchor (US,Can. ...

Of note is that World News Now was used as the prototype for Fred, ABC's plan to run a cable news channel. The plan was floated in 1995 and was later dropped due to issues with cable carriage, including competition with the recently started MSNBC and Fox News Channel. MSNBC (a portmanteau of MSN and NBC) is a 24-hour cable news channel in the United States. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

In 1994, World News Now was the first television program to be broadcast on the Internet, using the CU-SeeMe interface. The program was interactive with the few viewers with Internet access at the time (mainly college students). Victor Dorff, a producer of WNN at the time, arranged for viewers to send web cam images of themselves, which were broadcast in several interactive segments. [1] World News Now was also one of the first shows to webcast; between 1999 and 2001, free live streaming was on the ABC News web site. In 2005, the free behind-the-scenes webcast returned. 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated like the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal. // Events January Bill Clinton January 1 : North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect. ... CU-SeeMe is an internet video-conferencing client written by students at Cornell University. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The show is produced and airs live in three half-hour segments from 2:00AM ET through 3:30AM ET, Monday Morning-Friday Morning. At 3:30ET, many local affiliates rebroadcast the show (in some cases multiple times) until 4:30AM local time at which time ABC World News This Morning is aired. World News This Morning is a 30 minute newscast offered by ABC News to ABC stations. ...

Due to its informative and yet irreverent treatment of the news, WNN has numerous fans. Some of its fans record the show and use it as a substitute to early morning news broadcasts. There are also several fan sites.

WNN is currently anchored by Ron Corning and Taina Hernandez. The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. ...

World News Now is also the name of the live daily afternoon webcast produced and orignally anchored by the ABC World News Tonight team, Elizabeth Vargas and Bob Woodruff, which began on 3 January 2006. It airs live at 3 P.M. Eastern time via ABCNews.com, and is available to view anytime on the site for the remainder of the day. It is also available for daily download on iTunes, where it is one of most frequently downloaded podcasts. After Woodruff's injury in Iraq, the webcast was anchored on a rotating basis by Vargas, Dan Harris, David Muir, and others. The webcast will continue under Charles Gibson, although it is unknown if he will anchor every webcast. Elizabeth Vargas Elizabeth Vargas (born September 6, 1962 in Paterson, New Jersey) is a television journalist, currently co-anchor of ABCs television newsmagazine 20/20 and anchor of ABC News Specials. ... Bob Woodruff with fellow World News Tonight co-anchor Elizabeth Vargas Robert William Bob Woodruff (born 1961) is an American television journalist. ...

Regular Segments

• Top Story
• Weather
• Sports

In a rotating fashion, at the halfway point in each half hour, a special segment is be presented. Here are some examples...

• Nightline - The first minutes of the primary topic of each evening's nightline
• This Week - (Only on Monday Mornings) The "Roundtable" segment, a debate of pundits from both sides of politics, is featured.
• World News Then - Somewhat of a "This Day in History" segment, a story from a given date in the past, having some relevance to the present is shown.
• Their News Now - A major national or international story, seen from the perspective of a local station that covers it.
• Leah At The Movies - People Magazine's Leah Rozen gives her top picks for new releases of the week.
• Interviews - One of the anchors interviews a newsmaker or celebrity
• Gadget Guy - Dick DeBartolo talks about and demonstrates the newest gadgets and technology

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Other Segments

• The final segment usually consists of the anchors discussing the news, their lives, or the day in general. Some half hours feature a discussion of headlines and smaller stories appearing in the new day's papers from around the country (Similar to the segment on CNN's defunct Newsnight as Aaron Brown and producer David Bohrman brought said segment from his WNN tenure) or of course, Friday Morning's Polka, sung by Barry Mitchell.

• When an anchor of numerous broadcasts finally leaves, a ceremony of sorts is held on their last broadcast. As the first few anchors moved on, cardboard cutouts were placed in the rafters of the studio for the "Anchor Hall of Fame". Today, this is done with a graphics sequence of a head-shot of the anchor moved into a graphic of the original set's rafters and monitors.

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WNN former anchors

ABC World News Now logo, 1993.

Other anchors include: ABC World News Now logo, 1993. ... ABC World News Now logo, 1993. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... Aaron Brown (November 10, 1948 was born to Jewish immigrants from Russia) is the former host of NewsNight with Aaron Brown on the television network CNN. Aaron Brown went to the University of Minnesota. ... Lisa McRee (born November 9, 1961 in Fort Worth, Texas) is an American television journalist and former news anchor. ... Thalia Assuras is a Canadian-born television journalist and news anchor of Greek descent who has worked for U.S. television networks since 1993. ... Kevin Newman (born 1959 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian journalist and news anchor. ... The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. ...

• Asha Blake
• JuJu Chang
• Liz Cho
• Anderson Cooper
• Tamala Edwards
• Sheilah Kast
• Derek McGinty
• David Muir
• Alison Stewart
• Jim Sciutto
• Gigi Stone
• Andrea Canning

Liz Cho on WABC-TVs Eyewitness News. ... Anderson Cooper Anderson Hays Cooper (born June 3, 1967) is a television journalist currently working for the CNN television network. ... The popular former ABC World News Now anchor Tamala Edwards is currently the weekday morning Action News anchor at WPVI-TV Philadelphia where she started in 2005. ... Alison Stewart (born July 4, 1966, Glen Ridge, New Jersey) is a television news anchor currently at MSNBC. Stewart first gained widespread visibility as a political correspondent for MTV News in the 1990s. ...

External links

• ABC World News Now
• World News Now FAQ