What is "nightline"

Nightline (or ABC News Nightline) is a late-night news program broadcast by ABC in the United States with a franchised formula to other networks and stations elsewhere in the world. Created by Roone Arledge, the program featured Ted Koppel as its main anchor from March 1980 until his retirement in November 2005. It is currently anchored by Dan Harris, Byron Pitts and Juju Chang on an alternating basis. Nightline airs weeknights at 12:35 a.m. Eastern Time after Jimmy Kimmel Live!, which previously served as the program's lead-out from 2003 to 2012.

In 2002, Nightline was ranked 23rd on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time. It has won three Peabody Awards, one in 2001, and two in 2002 for the reports "Heart of Darkness" and "The Survivors".

Through a video-sharing agreement with the BBC, Nightline also repackages some of the BBC's output for an American audience. Segments from Nightline are also shown in a condensed form on ABC's overnight news program World News Now. There is also a version of Nightline for sister cable channel Fusion.

Nightline is a late-night news program on ABC.

Nightline may also refer to:

• Nightline (Australian news program), a defunct news bulletin on Australia's Nine Network
• Nightline (New Zealand TV series), a late-night news bulletin on New Zealand's TV3 Network
• Nightline (student service), a confidential listening and information service run by university students for other university students

Nightline is the name given to various confidential and anonymous overnight listening, emotional support, information, and supplies services, run by students for students at universities around the world. Individual Nightlines are autonomous organisations, but many choose to affiliate to the Nightline Association, which is an umbrella organisation founded to facilitate cooperation at a national level.

There are now Nightlines services in over 40 universities with around 2000 student volunteers in the UK some of which are affiliated with the Nightline Association, as well as several others which are not affiliated. In later years, other universities in Europe, Canada, and the United States also started Nightline services.

Their current motto is 'We'll listen, not lecture'

Nightline was a late-night news bulletin produced by Nine News. Introduced in 1992, it was axed in 2008 then brought back in 2009 and it was axed again in July 2010, returned in 2011 and was axed again in December 2011. It aired at around weeknights, but was not shown in Perth or Adelaide. Nightline was previously presented by Kellie Sloane. Its main competitors were Ten Late News and ABC News's Lateline - which both air prior to Nightline at 10:30pm

The series was patterned after the version that airs on ABC (US), but that one is different from the Australian counterpart even though at one point both versions used the same opening graphics, which both no longer use.

Nightline was a New Zealand late night news show on TV3 hosted by Sacha McNeil. Nightline ceased to air in December 2013, replaced by controversial broadcaster Paul Henry's new show, The Paul Henry Show in early 2014. In 2015, a new late night news bulletin called Newsworthy premiered with Samantha Hayes & David Farrier at the desk.