ABC World News Tonight will return to FTA after SBS signed a new content deal with American Broadcasting Company. From today, July 1, daily episodes of ABC World News Tonight with David Muir will drop exclusively on SBS On Demand from 6.30am, and will air on SBS VICELAND later that day. From July 30, the program will air daily on SBS at 12.30pm, followed by an encore screening on SBS VICELAND that afternoon.
World News Tonight last aired on Nine in the 1990s when Peter Jennings was at the helm, and then on Sky News Australia in the early 2000s.
Also, as mentioned on SBS Worldwatch thread yesterday, This Week with George Stephanopoulos will be shown on SBS VICELAND at 3.50pm Mondays from today, as part SBS’s deal with ABC.