World News Now | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-13

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_News_Now


00:02:19 1 History
00:02:28 1.1 1991–1993
00:06:08 1.2 1994–1998
00:07:51 1.3 1999–2008
00:10:57 1.4 2009–2011
00:14:37 1.5 2012–present
00:18:50 2 Production
00:18:59 2.1 Newscast structure
00:19:09 2.1.1 First half-hour
00:19:26 2.1.2 Second half-hour
00:19:40 2.1.3 Third half-hour
00:19:54 2.2 Regular segments
00:20:57 2.3 "B," "C" and "D"-blocks
00:23:22 2.4 Special segments
00:24:18 2.5 Former segments
00:29:20 3 Scheduling
00:34:17 4 Anchors
00:34:26 4.1 Timeline
00:34:35 5 Criticism



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SUMMARY
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World News Now (or WNN) is an American overnight television news program that is broadcast on ABC. Airing during the early morning hours each Monday through Friday, the program features a mix of general news and off-beat stories, along with weather forecasts, sports highlights, feature segments, and repurposed segments and story packages from other ABC News programs; its tone is often lighthearted, irreverent and humorous.
Created by its original executive producer, David Bohrman, a number of well-known news personalities have anchored WNN early in their careers, including original anchors Aaron Brown and Lisa McRee, Thalia Assuras, Kevin Newman, Alison Stewart, Liz Cho, Anderson Cooper and current World News Tonight anchor David Muir. As of 1 January 2019, the program is primarily co-anchored by a guest anchor and Janai Norman, who also anchor the network's early-morning news program America This Morning.
WNN is divided into four segment blocks ("A", "B" "C" and "D") that start with national and international news headlines incorporating some pre-taped reports (with some live wraparounds) from ABC NewsOne correspondents or repeated reports from the network's evening news program ABC World News Tonight. The "A"-block also features a national weather forecast (significant weather stories are also reported during the broadcast through analysis from meteorologists employed with AccuWeather, which provides forecasts for ABC's owned-and-operated stations) and an often humorous "kicker" story that ends the block. The "B," "C" and "D" blocks usually feature a mix of stories from Nightline or the BBC, or other live-to-tape or pre-taped segments produced in-studio, depending on the day of the week.