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ABC's World News Tonight and Nightline enter high definition tonight
ABC's push for HD evening news comes to a head tonight, when World News with Charles Gibson and Nightline both hit your screen in 720p from the Democratic National Convention. Besides covering both conventions in HD -- and there'll be plenty of that in the '08 campaign -- when they return to the studio in September the HD love continues. 20/20, Primetime and World News on the weekend will all be HDTV-ready shortly after. B & C reveals ABC News is deploying the same Sony XDCAMs -- full HD newsgathering is on hold 'til 2009 -- used to bring home high definition Survivor this fall, add in a tropical location and it would likely be hard to tell which one we're watching.
ABC World News Tonight with Charles Gibson going HD in September
September 8th is gearing up to be quite the day for high-definition debuts. Earlier this year we learned that the Ellen Degeneres Show would be making its HD premiere on that very day, and now we've learned that ABC World News Tonight with Charles Gibson will be doing the same a few hours later. Hot on the heels of the CBS Evening News making the high-def leap comes an ABC spokeswoman to curve the coverage away from that other network. According to her, said program is scheduled to go HD "the week of September 8th," though no other details were revealed. Better enjoy that edge while it lasts, Katie / Brian.[Image courtesy of John Sterling, thanks Martin]
