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The World Tonight  is an  English language  late-night newscast of the  ABS-CBN News Channel  (ANC). It was formerly the Primetime English newscast late-night English newscast of  ABS-CBN  from November 21, 1966 to September 23, 1972 and from July 16,1986-August 8,1999    It is aired Monday-Sunday at 8:00-9:00pm. It is aired Monday-Sunday at 12:00-1:00am daily and anchored by  Tina Monzon-Palma  on Monday-Friday  and Primetime-Edition 8:00-9;00pm and Evening-Edition 12:00-1:00am.The World Tonight holds the record as the longest-running English newscast on Philippine television after RPN's NewsWatch's demise in October 2012.

Airing history
The World Tonight  premiered on November 21, 1966 at 8:30pm on  CBN 's (predecessor of ABS-CBN) DZXL-TV Channel 9 as the network's answer to  ABC 's  The Big News ,  The News with Uncle Bob  on  RBS, and  NewsWatch  on RPN. 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 sister station DZAQ-TV  ABS 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  The 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 23, 1972.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. The World Tonight  returned on July 16, 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. Ng left the newscast after a while, and was replaced by Korina Sanchez. However, Sanchez eventually left the newscast to concentrate on hosting the morning show  Magandang Umaga  (later  Magandang Umaga Po ), leaving Castro and Legarda as main anchors, with  Ces Oreña-Drilon  (business),  Cathy Yap-Yang  (business) and  Dyan Castillejo  (sports) joining in the '90s as segment anchors. Sanchez returned as an anchor but only on Saturday Edition along with Castro, Drillon, Castillejo additional segments with  Angelique Lazo  (entertainment) and  Bon Vibar  (alternating anchor with Castro). The weekend edition was replaced by  ABS-CBN Weekend News  in 1992-1999 which was also an English newscast until 1999-2006 when it was switched to  Filipino language  after The World Tonight ended due to low ratings.During the ABS-CBN era, it was also simulcast on the network's 24-hour news channel  ABS-CBN News Channel, then known as the Sarimanok News Network from its launch on May 1, 1996. Legarda left the newscast on March 6, 1998 to run for senator. She was replaced by  Tina Monzon-Palma  on March 9, 1998, who used to anchor rival newscasts  GMA Headline News  (on  GMA Network ) and  The Big News  (on the reopened  ABC ).In late 1998, the ratings of English late-night newscasts including The World Tonight of ABS-CBN began to get low when rival GMA introduced  Filipino language  late-night news with  GMA Network News  since it debuted as a English newscast in 1992 and was fasten to higher when it was switched to Filipino. Thus, the ABS-CBN management needed to move the said newscast to early evening slot and TV Patrol would move to late-night or move their English news reporting to its 24-hour cable news channel  ABS-CBN News Channel  and to its sister station  Studio 23  airing  News Central  during that time. The World Tonight made its final broadcast on the ABS-CBN television network on August 14,1999-present when it was replaced by the network's first Filipino-language Weekend Primetime-newscast  TV Patrol-Weekend-Primetime Weekend  late-night-newscast TV Patrol-Weekend-Late-Night  to compete with GMA's  Frontpage: Ulat ni Mel Tiangco  which was the replacement of GMA Network News and was premiered two weeks ago on August 2, 1999. This was the start of both ABS-CBN and GMA as all-Tagalog networks with rival ABC joined in 2004 with Big News switching from English to Filipino and starting the dawn of the 21st century by airing late-night news in Filipino language on television today.Two months later, The World Tonight premiered solely on the network's 24-hour news channel ANC on October 11, 1999. Angelo Castro, Jr. and Tina Monzon-Palma still remains as anchors at that time. The program continues to be one of the news channel's flagship newscasts.On March 12, 2001, prior to the big changes in most programs of  ABS-CBN, The World Tonight relaunched to its graphics and theme music.Castro retired as a news anchor on September 1, 2009, as Palma went solo. However, he later returned on November 7, 2011, on a sporadic basis. He died on April 5, 2012 of lung cancer at the age of 67. Despite Angelo Castro, Jr.'s death, Tina Monzon-Palma continued as solo anchor until now.In 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 with Jessica Soho  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.

Primetime-Anchors

 * Carlo Marasigan
 * Cesca Litton
 * Joe Marasigan
 * Bernadette Sembrano

Evening-Anchors

 * Carlo Marasigan
 * Cesca Litton
 * Joe Marasigan
 * Menchu Macapagal

Former anchors

 * Angelo Castro, Jr. –  (1986-2011)
 * Loren Legarda (1986–1998)
 * Dyan Castillejo (Sports anchor, 1992–1999)
 * Ces Drilon (business anchor from 1992 to 1999)
 * Korina Sanchez – alternating anchor for Legarda from 1988 to 1991
 * Pia Hontiveros –Saturday-anchor from 1992 to 2006
 * Erwin Tulfo –Saturday-anchor from 1994 to 2006
 * Dan Andrew Cura - Sunday-anchor from 1994 to 2006
 * Pinky Webb -  Sunday-anchor from 1994 to 2006