ABC News
News division of the American Broadcasting Company
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| September 4 2024 | ABC News Live launched on Disney+. |
| October 26 2023 | World News Tonight began posting full broadcasts to ABC News' YouTube channel. |
| September 2023 | ABC News Live Reports evening newscast began, hosted by Kayna Whitworth. |
| 2022 | Weekend rebroadcasts of 'What Would You Do?' hidden camera show started. |
| June 6 2021 | Whit Johnson and Linsey Davis begin anchoring the Saturday and Sunday editions of the newscast respectively. |
| March 2021 | ABC World News Tonight's clips were no longer part of the English language educational program KÅryaku! ABC News Eigo in Japan. |
| February 2021 | Whit Johnson and Linsey Davis were announced as weekend news anchors, with Johnson anchoring Saturday and Davis anchoring Sunday. |
| January 2021 | Tom Llamas left ABC News to join NBC News. |
| September 8 2020 | World News Tonight debuted a new title card, reintroduced the Bob Israel-composed opening theme (replacing Hans Zimmer's theme), and revealed an updated set and new graphics package. |
| August 10 2020 | World News Tonight marked 11 consecutive weeks as 'America's Most-Watched Show'. |
| July 9 2020 | Westwood One decided to fold its news network on August 30, leading Cumulus to reaffiliate most of its news/talk stations with ABC. |
| April 21 2020 | ABC News Live launched on YouTube TV and Amazon's news app on Fire TV. |
| March 2020 | GMA3 premiered initially as 'Pandemic: What You Need To Know', a temporary replacement for the talk show Strahan, Sara and Keke, created to cover the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. |
| March 20 2020 | ABC News Live was added to Hulu SVOD. |
| February 2020 | ABC News Live Prime evening newscast launched, hosted by Linsey Davis. |
| January 2020 | ABC News Radio's digital presence was moved from Slacker to Associated Press news. |
| January 23 2020 | ABC News announced an expansion of staffing for the streaming channel, with Justin Dial hired as senior executive producer. Tom Llamas was to anchor breaking news coverage, and Linsey Davis would anchor two weekday evening newscasts. |
| July 2019 | ABC World News Tonight was moved from Sky News Australia to SBS and SBS Viceland in Australia. |
| October 26 2018 | ABC News Live was added to Hulu with Live TV. |
| March 2018 | ABC News Live (ABCNL) launched exclusively on Roku and was later added to Facebook Watch and ABC apps and websites. |
| January 2017 | Tom Llamas became the sole weekend anchor after Cecilia Vega was named senior White House correspondent. |
| November 2016 | World News Tonight became the most-watched network primetime newscast for the first time in 18 years, a milestone last achieved during the 1998-99 season under Peter Jennings. |
| July 2016 | World News Tonight broadcast from Dallas following the shooting of five policemen. |
| 2015 | Mike Huckabee takes over distribution of his commentary program 'The Huckabee Report' as a digital-only feature. |
| March 30 2015 | World News Tonight became the most-watched network evening newscast for the week, marking the first time in seven years the program finished at No. 1, beating NBC Nightly News in all categories. |
| March 30 2015 | ABC World News Tonight was again replaced by Asia Business Report and Sport Today on BBC News in the United Kingdom. |
| February 2015 | Cecilia Vega was named anchor of the Saturday broadcast and Tom Llamas was named anchor of the Sunday edition. |
| September 10 2014 | Ann Compton retired from ABC News Radio after 41 years as White House Correspondent. |
| September 1 2014 | David Muir became the weekday anchor and managing editor of World News Tonight, while retaining his duties as co-anchor of 20/20. George Stephanopoulos assumed the news division's Chief Anchor position at the same time. |
| August 27 2014 | David Muir began as anchor of the weeknight editions of ABC World News, with Diane Sawyer ending her tenure early to spend time with family. |
| July 2014 | Cumulus announced the end of its partnership with ABC News and planned to partner with CNN for news syndication starting January 1, 2015. |
| July 28 2014 | The program debuted a slightly updated set with a new, larger monitor behind the anchor desk. |
| June 25 2014 | ABC News announced that Diane Sawyer would step down as weekday anchor, to be succeeded by David Muir effective September 2. |
| October 28 2013 | ABC News launched Fusion, a new cable news channel, as a joint venture with Univision. |
| 2012 | Mark Davis began being heard on KSKY radio station. |
| October 1 2012 | World News debuted a new logo, opening theme composed by Hans Zimmer, updated set, and new graphics package. The program also introduced the 'Instant Index' segment and the 'Made in America' feature reported by David Muir. |
| August 20 2012 | ABC World News Tonight returned to BBC News channel in the United Kingdom after its previous replacement. |
| 2011 | Katie Couric becomes a contributor to ABC News, staying until 2014. |
| 2011 | David Muir moves to weekend anchoring and Cecilia Vega begins hosting the Saturday edition; Dan Harris continues with the Sunday edition |
| June 14 2011 | ABC World News Tonight was replaced by Asia Business Report and Sport Today on BBC News in the United Kingdom. |
| August 23 2010 | A new set for the ABC World News program was introduced. |
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