The World Tonight-Weekend

The World Tonight  and  The World Tonight-Weekend    is and    English language  late-night-newscast of the  ABS-CBN News Channel'''  (ANC). It was the Primetime and Late-Night English newscast late-night English newscast   of  ABS-CBN  from November 21, 1966 to September 23, 1972 and from July 16,1986-present. It is aired Monday-Friday at 6:00-7:00pm. It is aired Monday-Friday at 11:00-12:00mn daily and anchored by Carlo Marasigan     on Saturday-Sunday and Primetime-Edition 6:00-7;00pm and Saturday-Sunday 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. '''

Primetime-Edition
The World Tonight premiered on November 21, 1966 at 6:00pm 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 6:00pm 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 1992-1998 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-December 12, 1997  to run for senator. She was replaced by Tina Monzon-Palma and  Bernadette Sembrano   On-December 15, 1997, who used to anchor rival newscasts  GMA Headline News  (on  GMA Network ) and  The Big News  (on the reopened  ABC ).In-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 1992-1998 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. Pambansang Balita Ala-Onse  made its final broadcast on the ABS-CBN television network on August 13,1999 when it was replaced by the network's first Filipino-language noontime-newscast,  Pulso: Aksyon Balita  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 Network 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 and ABS-CBN 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 and  Bernadette Sembrano   C ontinued 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 ABS-CBN and move to an earlier timeslot at 6:00pm-7:00pm and expands into a 1-hour newscast to compete with Ulat Bayan  of  People's Television Network  & Newsnight  of  CNN Philippines , Ito Ang Balita of UNTV Aksyon of  TV5  among other newscasts on the timeslot. New segments & reports with original content were also aired during the launching day. On March 31, 2017, Tina Monzon-Palma and Bernadttte Sermbrano Left the newscast. the show was relaunched when Its-Showtime and ASAP host Nadine Lustre and Yassi Pressman joined Tony Velasquez and Carlo Marasigan was replaced Tina Monzon-Palma and Bernadette Sembrano while She appointed as an anchor of TV Patrol with Ted Failon   and Noli De Castro who and the news team switched the newscast to Tagalog.were also added to the news program, as its set was reformatted and running time was expanded to 60 minutes.

Evening-Edition
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 1992-1998 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-December 12, 1997  to run for senator. She was replaced by Pops Fernandez and Zsa-Zsa Padilla  On-December 15, 1997, 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 1992-1998 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. Pambansang Balita Ala-Onse   made its final broadcast on the ABS-CBN television network on August 13,1999 when it was replaced by the network's first Filipino-language noontime-newscast,  Pulso: Aksyon Balita  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 Network 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 and ABS-CBN On-October 11,1999-prersent.Joe Marasigan.Zsa-Zsa Padilla Carlo Marasigan and Pops Fernandez 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 Padilla-Fernandez 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,Pops Fernandez and Zsa-Zsa Padilla 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 ABS-CBN and move to an earlier timeslot at 11:00pm-12:00mn and expands into a 1-hour newscast to compete with PTV News Headlines  of  People's Television Network  & Newsroom  of  CNN Philippines , Why News of UNTV Aksyon Tonite of  TV5  among other newscasts on the timeslot. New segments & reports with original content were also aired during the launching day.

Weekend Primetime
Straightforward reporting the views of events with an in-depth analyst of currently burning issues. Carefully and intelligently done with style. Keep up with the abreast and be apart of the most comprehensive news on Philippine television.The World Tonight your window to the nation and to the world. Anchored by today's new breed of men and women broadcasters:Carlo Marasigan Nadine Lustre  and  Yassi Pressman

Weekend Late-Night
Straightforward reporting the views of events with an in-depth analyst of currently burning issues. Carefully and intelligently done with style. Keep up with the abreast and be apart of the most comprehensive news on Philippine television.The World Tonight your window to the nation and to the world. Anchored by today's new breed of men and women broadcasters: Carlo Marasigan Anne Curtis and Karylle Padilla.

Primetime-Anchors

 * Nadine Lustre (2017–present)
 * Yassi Pressman (2017–present)
 * Carlo Marasigan (1997–present)

Evening-Anchors

 * Anne Curtis (2017-present)
 * Karylle Padilla (2017-present)
 * Carlo Marasigan (1997-present)

Former anchors

 * Angelo Castro, Jr. (1986-2012)
 * Tina Monzon-Palma (1997–2017)
 * Bernadette Sembrano (1997-2017)
 * Loren Legarda (1986–1997)
 * Amy Godinez (1986–1997)
 * Dyan Castillejo (sports anchor, 1992–1999)
 * Ces Drilon (business anchor, 1992–1999)
 * Bon Vibar (Saturday/Sunday Edition 1986–1995)
 * Korina Sanchez (Saturday/Sunday Edition 1986–1995)
 * Erwin Tulfo (Saturday/Sunday Edition 1995–1997)
 * Pia Hontiveros (Saturday/Sunday Edition 1995–1997)
 * Angelique Lazo (Saturday/Sunday entertainment anchor, 1987–1993)
 * Teodoro Locsin Jr. (2011–2017) (segment anchor for "Teditorial")