Prime of the Ticker: An vital milestone was marked on Friday morning as The State of affairs Room celebrated its twentieth anniversary. What started as a three-hour late-afternoon program anchored by Wolf Blitzer has, through the years, morphed right into a two-hour late-morning present co-anchored by Blitzer and Pamela Brown. Regardless of the timeslot modifications and anchor additions, the present’s mission has nonetheless remained the identical. Blitzer says it’s “the place the information comes collectively because it occurs.” Throughout Friday’s broadcast, Blitzer celebrated the anniversary by trying again on the present’s first day and highlights from through the years.
Immediately we celebrated 20 years of The State of affairs Room. We launched it on August 8, 2005. Right here’s a take a look at the way it began on Day One and a few highlights from through the years. pic.twitter.com/SDnm2PK1yh
— Wolf Blitzer (@wolfblitzer) August 8, 2025
One other CNN present is celebrating an anniversary as CNN Worldwide’s Connecting Africa turns 5 years outdated. To mark the anniversary, CNN anchor and correspondent Eleni Giokos and Connecting Africa correspondent Victoria Rubadiri recorded a particular episode of the present in entrance of a reside viewers on the sidelines of Afreximbank Annual Conferences (AAM) in Abuja, Nigeria.
CNN celebrated the fifth anniversary of Connecting Africa, with
Eleni Giokos and Victoria Rubadiri recording a particular episode in entrance of a reside viewers in Abuja, Nigeria.Discover out extra: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2025/08/07/c…
— CNN Worldwide PR (@cnnipr.bsky.social) August 7, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Ukraine Particular: NewsNation on Saturday, August 9, at 8 p.m. ET will air a particular entitled “Ukraine: On the Frontlines.” Hosted by correspondent Robert Sherman, the one-hour piece will probably be a compilation of his unique protection this week from Ukraine on the nation’s superior drone warfare program and the way the conflict has advanced during the last 3 ½ years.
Late-night look: Fox Information’ late-night host Greg Gutfeld made his method into “enemy territory,” showing as a visitor on NBC’s The Tonight Present with Jimmy Fallon. Gutfeld, who was on the present to advertise his Fox Nation sport present, What Did I Miss?, spoke about assembly Fallon for the primary time and being tackled by him at a bar in Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood. He additionally shared the journal jobs he was fired from earlier than touchdown at Fox Information and what impressed him to provide his mother a “senior correspondent” position on his first Fox Information program.
