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World News Tonight With Peter Jennings Weeknights at 6:30 p.m. on WCHS-TV8 
ABC News' "World News Tonight With Peter Jennings" continues to distinguish itself as the most innovative evening news program on television.Mr. Jennings has brought more than 36 years of overseas and domestic reporting experience to "World News Tonight's" coverage of major news stories. Today Peter Jennings takes that experience into cyberspace to provide viewers and Internet users even more insight into top news stories. Each evening "World News Tonight" teams up with ABCNEWS.com to provide viewers additional resources, video excerpts and discussion forums for key "World News Tonight" reports. For example, during "World News Tonight's" report on the 30th anniversary of the Internet, viewers could log onto ABCNEWS.com for a live video stream of the newsroom during the evening broadcast, and participate in chats with senior producers to find out what really happens behind the scenes of a live newscast.
And, in another important ABC News first, in October, 2000, "World News Tonight" became the first and only national broadcast news program available in Spanish, by providing simultaneous Spanish interpretation of the broadcast on the Secondary Audio Program (SAP). "World News Tonight" has been honored by many organizations and societies. It received more nominations at the 22nd Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards than any other evening news program, with a total of seven. Last year "World News Tonight" was honored with three SAJA Journalism 2000 Awards, sponsored by the Graduate School of Columbia University, for its coverage of the arrival of television to Bhutan. For 1999-2000, "World News Tonight" won five Emmy Awards for its coverage of subjects as diverse as the fall of Suharto in Indonesia to the tornado in Birmingham, Alabama. The broadcast was also awarded an Overseas Press Club Award for its coverage of the embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, two Edward R. Murrow Awards for its coverage of the floods in the Midwest; plus a National Headliner Award, the Joan Shorenstein Barone Award and a third Murrow Award for its coverage of the crisis in the White House. For the past 17 years, Peter Jennings has traveled from his base in New York City to anchor the broadcast throughout North America and around the world. He traveled to New Delhi, India, to provide extensive coverage of President Clinton's trip to India and Pakistan -- he was the only network anchor to travel to India to report on the president's historic trip to this troubled region. More recently he has anchored from Los Angeles, Boston, and Laredo, Texas, where he reported on the U.S./Mexican border. Mr. Jennings' knowledge of Middle East affairs brings invaluable perspective to ABC News coverage, particularly to the strained peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel and Jordan. During the Persian Gulf conflict of 1990-91, he reported from Amman, Saudi Arabia, and Baghdad -- where he interviewed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. A Times-Mirror poll of Americans selected Mr. Jennings most often as the journalist "doing a particularly good job covering the war." "World News Tonight's" aggressive coverage of domestic and international events are complemented by:
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