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**ABC News Now** is an American pay television news channel owned by ABC News, the news division of the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) television network in the United States. In addition to conventional television distribution, ABC News Now is also streamed online and on mobile platforms to subscribers of participating cable and satellite providers.

ABC News Now is based out in the ABC Television Center in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of Manhattan, adjacent to ABC's corporate headquarters; it also maintains additional studios in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.

## History

After having attempted a 20-minute online news program three times a week hosted by Sam Donaldson in 1999, ABC News launched a forerunner of ABC News Now (ABCNN) in March 2003. The service was fee based except for the customers of America Online, Comcast, and a few other Internet providers. Later, mobile phone users could access the programming through Sprint's MobiTV. The ABCNN service launched on July 24, 2004, with extended coverage of the Democratic National Convention and Republican National Convention.

On January 31, 2005, ABC News removed ABC News Now from owned and operated and affiliated TV stations' subchannel as the channel ended its experimental phase originally expected to end after election day but extended past inauguration. The channel would continue on the internet and wireless devices. 20/20 senior broadcast producer Mike Clemente was then hired as executive producer to head up the channel as a part of an increasing capacity being developed for the channel to returns a permanent channel in the Spring. The channel was relaunched as a cable channel in early April 2005.

On November 5, 2007, CC/ABC announced plans to launch the channel in international territories, including Germany, Spain and Belgium in 2008 on IPTV service Zattoo, with more territories, including the United Kingdom, planned for the next 6 months. This marked the second international channel launched under ABC branding, the first being the United Kingdom general entertainment channel ABC1 which closed on September 26, 2007.

## Programming

As of November 2023, the network's weekday schedule consists of Now You Know, the network's morning show, hosted by Mariana Atencio, Pedro Andrade, and Yannis Pappas broadcast between 6 a.m. and 9 a.m. ET. This is followed by Good Morning America Health, the third hour of Good Morning America, hosted by Darien Sutton, which is themed toward health news and other health-related topics. ABC News Live serves as the network's rolling news block between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. ET, with its morning edition anchored by Will Ganss, and its afternoon edition anchored by Juju Chang. ABC News Now's late afternoon and early evening lineup consists of Money Matters with Alexis Christoforous at 4 p.m. ET and ABC News Reports with Linsey Davis between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. ET. The network's evening and prime time lineup shifts towards more in-depth programming, with two editions of ABC News Prime with Kate Snow at 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. ET; D.N.A. with Derrick Ashong at 8 p.m. ET (repeated at 12 a.m. ET); Come Here and Say That with Alicia Menendez at 9 p.m. ET (repeated at 1 a.m. ET) and TopLine with Nate Silver at 11 p.m. ET. Between 2 a.m. and 6 a.m. ET, ABC News Now carries World News Now, a daily overnight newscast broadcast by ABC.

Weekend primetime—from 8 p.m. ET—is dedicated mostly to factual programming, such as documentaries, and entertainment and lifestyle shows (including Amplified, What Matters, On The Red Carpet, Tech This Out! and Popcorn with Peter Travers), with a headline news roundup broadcast every half hour. The network's weekend programming consists of ABC News Live hosted by Mona Kosar Abdi, Kayna Whitworth, Morgan Norwood and Lionel Moise, which airs from 6:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. ET. A rebroadcast of This Week, ABC's Sunday morning political affairs program is shown at 12:00 p.m. ET. At 7 p.m. ET and 10 p.m. ET, the weekend edition of ABC News Prime with Rob Nelson is aired.

During breaking news events of major international signifiance, ABC News Now will use a simulcast of the ITN News Channel to continue coverage in the overnight hours.