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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 33. Chapters: ABC World News, Good Morning America, Our World, World News Now, Nightline, 20/20, Ben Sherwood, Ernest Leiser, This Week, Primetime, ABC 2000 Today, ABC News Radio, America This Morning, ABC News Now, The Note, Steve Alperin, Throwaway Kids, AM America, Primetime: What Would You Do?, ABC evening news anchors, The Power of Belief, Six Degrees of Martina McBride, William M. Abrams, The Century: America's Time, Satellite News Channel, Animals, Animals, Animals, 45/85, Discovery, NASCAR in Primetime, Issues and Answers, Nightline Prime, Make a Wish, Peter Jennings Reporting, I-Caught, Day One, Out to Lunch, Primetime: The Outsiders. Excerpt: ABC World News is the flagship daily evening program of ABC News, the news division of the American Broadcasting Company television network in the United States. Currently, the weekday editions are anchored by Diane Sawyer and the weekend editions are anchored by David Muir. The program has been anchored at various times by a number of other people since its debut in 1953. It also has used various titles, including ABC Evening News from 1970 to 1978 and World News Tonight from 1978 to 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 twenty-six-year-old Canadian, Peter Jennings, was named anchor of Peter Jennings with the News. In 1967, the inexperienced Jennings left the ...