| 1 | ->"It's late at night, you're wide awake, and you're not wearing pants. So grab your World News Now Mug and everybody dance! Hey! Be a friend, be a pal, every Anchor Guy and Gal...Do the World News Polka." |
| 2 | -->'''The World News Now theme song''' |
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| 4 | Overnight ABC News show airing from 1991 to present day. In comparison to most other newscasts, it oftentimes is rather lighthearted and goofy with unusual recurring segments, though it can become serious as needed. |
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| 6 | !!''World News Now'' contains examples of: |
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| 8 | * [[RealLifeWritesThePlot Real Life Writes the Lyrics]]: When ABC was bought by Disney in the mid-1990s, the line "Who cares what the network thinks/and the sponsors too" was changed to "Who cares what the network thinks?/They're a WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}} crew." |
| 9 | * TalkAboutTheWeather: The National Temperature Index (NTI) |
| 10 | * TheRival: ''Creator/{{NBC}} Nightside'' and ''Creator/{{CBS}} News: Up To The Minute''; all three were conceived around the time of the first Gulf War as appetite for news grew. (Both also had predecessors; the much-missed ''NBC News Overnight'' from 1982-83, while CBS had ''Nightwatch'', which began as a formal news show before eventually evolving into a more interview-centric program.) ''Nightside'' was canned in 1998 (replaced by ''NBC All Night'', aka reruns of other NBC shows), while ''UTTM'' lasted until 2015, when it was replaced with the ''CBS Overnight News''. |
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