World News with Charles Gibson (previously known as World News Tonight, often called ABC World News Tonight, also often abbreviated as WNT, and known as World News on weekend editions) is the flagship ABC News program of the American Broadcasting Company television network in the United States.
The weekday editions are hosted by Charles Gibson (since 2006), Saturdays by David Muir (since 2007) and Sundays by Dan Harris (since 2006).
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World News with Charles Gibson (previously known as World News Tonight, often called ABC World News Tonight, also often abbreviated as WNT, and known as World News on weekend editions) is the flagship ABC News program of the American Broadcasting Company television network in the United States.
The weekday editions are hosted by Charles Gibson (since 2006), Saturdays by David Muir (since 2007) and Sundays by Dan Harris (since 2006).
ABC first began a nightly newscast in fall 1953 with John Charles Daly as anchor of the then-fifteen-minute John Charles Daly and the News. Daly, who also hosted the CBS game show What's My Line? contemporaneously, anchored the news until 1960 with multiple hosts and formats succeeding him. Anchors during the early 1960s included Alex Dreier, John Secondari, Fendall Winston Yerxa, Al Mann, Bill Shadel, John Cameron Swayze (formerly of NBC), Bill Laurence, and Bill Sheehan. In 1962, Ron Cochran was made full-time anchor, serving until 1964. Then, in 1965, a...
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