Lateline

Lateline is the late evening weekday newscast of The National Television, produced by TNT News. Lateline airs live at 11:30pm in the Eastern time zone and 10:30pm in the Central Time Zone. The show airs prerecorded airs pre-recorded at 11:30pm in the Pacific time zone and 10:30pm in the Mountain, Alaskan and Hawaii–Aleutian Time Zone. The opening theme music to the newscast was composed in 1996 by Hank Willis. On December 1st 2004, Hank Willis composed music for the Headline sequence and Closing music performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

When Lateline premiered on 13th February 1990, it was a thirty-minute single-topic debate forum hosted by Kerry Donaldson. Airing every weekday, the program opened with a seven-minute video piece that attempted to examine the case in a balanced manner, followed by twenty minutes of moderated debate between two and four guests.

The most notable aspect of the format at the time was that many guests appeared via satellite. Whether in the studio or on the other side of the world all the guests would appear 'remote', on monitors.

On September 6th 1999, the programme was reformatted from current affairs show to a traditional late national newscast. It now consists of news reports, interviews and packages from CTV, TV3 New Zealand, Seven Network, TVB, Sky News, ANN7 and NDTV News. The program's sports segment is presented by Terry Duncan from WTNY-TV in New York.

Anchors

 * Kerry Donaldson (1990-1999)
 * Geoff Lewis (1999-2006)
 * Aaron Brown (2006-2012)
 * Abby Martin (2012-present)