High of the Ticker: An necessary 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.
At the moment we celebrated 20 years of The State of affairs Room. We launched it on August 8, 2005. Right here’s a have 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One other CNN present is celebrating an anniversary as CNN Worldwide’s Connecting Africa turns 5 years outdated.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.
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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 warfare 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 present his mother a “senior correspondent” function on his first Fox Information program.
Sequence Renewals: Fox Nation has renewed the sequence God. Household. Soccer for a further two seasons. The sequence, which premiered its eight-episode third season on Thursday, August 7, will see the fourth season air within the fall of 2026. This season follows an underdog workforce of younger athletes at Evangel Christian Academy, led by rising stars each on the sphere and in life, coached by legendary coach and pastor Denny Duron.
They’re not simply enjoying for the win.
A brand new season of ‘God. Household. Soccer.’ kicks off this Thursday, August seventh on Fox Nation. https://t.co/Z9j3wtVsMb pic.twitter.com/xLGaCWCEjC
— Fox Nation (@foxnation) August 6, 2025
