Central News All Night

(also known simply as News All Night or NAN) is an American overnight news broadcast seen on the Central Television Network, NWLD and Central News Live. Airing during the early morning hours each day, 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 Central News programs; its tone is often lighthearted, irreverent and humorous.
Created by Harry Dobbs, who also served as the original executive producer, a number of well-known news personalities have anchored CNAN early in their careers, including original anchors Doreen Gentzler and Don Alhart, Newsnight anchor Lisa McRee, Kathleen Matthews, Mary Beth Marsden, Chris Kapostasy (Jansing), John Roberts, Val Holley-Dennis, Mike Snyder, former Newsnight anchor Stephen Swift, and Shannon Ogden. Since 2019, the program is primarily co-anchored by Central News correspondents Julian Sadur and Jennifer Vaughn.
==Overview==
NAN 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 Central NewsFirst correspondents or repeated reports from the network's evening news program Newsnight. 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 many Central's owned-and-operated stations; as well as Central's own team of meteorologists working at the Bob Mills Weather Central) and an often humorous "kicker" story that ends the block. The "B," "C" and "D" blocks usually feature a mix of stories its stations, ITV, or other live-to-tape or pre-taped segments produced in-studio, depending on the day of the week.
News All Night broadcasts beginning at 2:00 a.m. ET and is transmitted in a continuous one-hour broadcast delay loop until 8:00 a.m. ET when THE Morning News– the network's early-morning news program – begins in certain areas of the Pacific Time Zone. Most of the network's stations do not air the program's entire broadcast loop and preempt portions of it in order to air local programming (usually infomercial or broadcast syndication) – joining the program in progress anywhere from five minutes to as much as 1½ hours after the start of the program – with affiliates looping the show until THE Morning News begins.
Its main competitors are ABC's World News Now, which follows a similar format, and the CBS Overnight News, of which it follows a more infotainment format (NBC has not aired a late-night newscast since the cancellation of NBC Nightside in 1998, and locally-scheduled syndicated programming or NBC News Now's Top Story with Tom Llamas leads into Early Today). 
Unlike ABC and CBS's shows, News All Night also aired Saturday and Sunday mornings, of which was also done by former rival NBC Nightside.
==History==
The program premiered on December 18, 1989; it was originally anchored by Don Alhart and Doreen Gentzler. Since its inception, production of News All Night were in the Central News Communications Center (also known as Broadcast House) in Washington D. C., situated in front of a working newsroom used by the affiliate news service Central NewsFirst.
In the tradition of NBC News Overnight (the predecessor to original rival NBC Nightside), News All Night has featured serious as well as offbeat news stories interspersed with odd features such as the "Central News Polka" (played by comedian Barry Mitchell on the accordion), video footage of dancing camels on Wednesdays (for "Hump Day"), and laughter coming from off-camera. Weather predictions were made for obscure and exotic places around the world; some of the locales have had various ties to the show, while some have had popular culture significance.
The program also often replays story packages from other Central News programs such as Viewpoint and Newsnight. It has been an apparent training ground for new news presenters (see list below) who eventually go on to higher-profile positions with the network or local affiliates. The show is also unique for its interactive segments, some of which pioneered the email communication that is commonly used on television newscasts today.
On January 2, 2006, coinciding with the network's debut of high definition broadcasts, News All Night became the first network overnight newscast to begin broadcasting in high definition.
On March 11, 2011, the program provided live coverage (in all time zones) of the devastating Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan, featuring updates and pictures from the Nippon News Network and NHK World-Japan; the coverage continued during THE Morning News and Waking Up With Central.
On December 18, 2019, News All Night broadcast an elaborate 30th anniversary special. All three half hours, except top of the show news summaries, were devoted to archival show clips and reminiscences by former anchors. Creator Ed Sardella and original anchors Don Alhart and Doreen Gentzler were live in studio to comment on the show's history. Throughout the hour and a half, Sardella, Alhart, Gentzler, then-Newsnight anchor Stephen Swift, a cardboard cutout of Chris Jansing and singer-songwriter Taylor Swift (which, incidentally, celebrated her 30th birthday the Friday before and acknowledged her birthday during the broadcast) joined current anchors Julian Sadur and Jennifer Vaughn at an on-set open bar, along with past and present News All Night staffers.
==Production==
===Newscast structure===
====Regular segments====
*Top Stories – a summary of national and international stories
*Weather – a summary of expected weather conditions and high temperatures for the upcoming day
*Developing – A summary of stories to follow throughout the day (2009–present)
*Article of the Day – a segment usually featuring a human interest or off-beat story (2012–present)
*Swiftertaiment – a segment focusing on entertainment news, celebrity gossip and pop-culture (2008–present)
*What's Up – a soft media segment features off-beat stories, viral video clips and funny photographs (2012–present)
*Lookout – a segment in News All Night anchors would check in with news producers at local Central affiliates around the country each night to see what stories they were working on in their local market, or broadcast the first few minutes of an affiliate's late local newscast during a breaking story (for instance, a blizzard in Buffalo, New York would have the opening of that night's newscast on WBUO shown), or occasionally for a British story, the opening of that night's ITV News at Ten. This was usually rotated between four or five local markets, which included Seattle and Denver.
==Anchors==
===Timeline===
*(12/1989 to 05/1990) Don Alhart and Doreen Gentzler
*(05/1990 to 09/1991) Don Alhart
*(09/1991 to 12/1993) Don Alhart and Val Holley-Dennis
*(01/1994 to 06/2000) Val Holley-Dennis and Mike Snyder
*(06/2000 to 10/2002) Mike Snyder and Chris Kapostasy (Jansing)
*(10/2002 to 07/2007) Stephen Shiftwell and Mary Beth Marsden
*(07/2007 to 11/2009) David Alan and Mary Beth Marsden
*(11/2009 to 04/2010) Lisa Foronda and David Alan
*(04/2010 to 09/2012) Jeff Passolt and Martie Salt
*(09/2012 to 05/2016) Lisa Foronda, Diana Pierce (main); Greg Hurst, Carla Aragon, Mike Gousha, Kathleen Matthews, Alan Gionet, Lisa Rose (substitutes)
*(05/2016 to 08/2017) Steve Savard, Diana Pierce (main); Greg Hurst, Carla Aragon, Mike Gousha, Laural Porter, Leon Harris (substitutes)
*(08/2017 to 06/2019) Julian Sadur, Ann Nyberg (main); Greg Hurst, Carla Aragon, Steve Doocy, Steve Savard, Tim Boyum (substitutes)
*(06/2019 to present) Julian Sadur, Jennifer Vaughn (main); Greg Hurst, Ann Nyberg, Stephen Swift, Tim Boyum, Steve Grant, Shannon Ogden, Kevin Newman (substitutes)
==Gallery==
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