Top of the Ticker: An important milestone was marked on Friday morning as The Situation Room celebrated its 20th anniversary. What began as a three-hour late-afternoon program anchored by Wolf Blitzer has, over the years, morphed into a two-hour late-morning show co-anchored by Blitzer and Pamela Brown. Despite the timeslot changes and anchor additions, the show’s mission has still remained the same. Blitzer says it’s “where the news comes together as it happens.” During Friday’s broadcast, Blitzer celebrated the anniversary by looking back at the show’s first day and highlights from over the years.
Today we celebrated 20 years of The Situation Room. We launched it on August 8, 2005. Here’s a look at how it started on Day One and some highlights from over the years. pic.twitter.com/SDnm2PK1yh
— Wolf Blitzer (@wolfblitzer) August 8, 2025
Another CNN show is celebrating an anniversary as CNN International’s Connecting Africa turns five years old. To mark the anniversary, CNN anchor and correspondent Eleni Giokos and Connecting Africa correspondent Victoria Rubadiri recorded a special episode of the show in front of a live audience on the sidelines of Afreximbank Annual Meetings (AAM) in Abuja, Nigeria.
CNN celebrated the fifth anniversary of Connecting Africa, with
Eleni Giokos and Victoria Rubadiri recording a special episode in front of a live audience in Abuja, Nigeria.Find out more: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2025/08/07/c…
— CNN International PR (@cnnipr.bsky.social) August 7, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Ukraine Special: NewsNation on Saturday, August 9, at 8 p.m. ET will air a special entitled “Ukraine: On the Frontlines.” Hosted by correspondent Robert Sherman, the one-hour piece will be a compilation of his exclusive coverage this week from Ukraine on the country’s advanced drone warfare program and how the war has evolved over the last 3 ½ years.
Late-night appearance: Fox News’ late-night host Greg Gutfeld made his way into “enemy territory,” appearing as a guest on NBC’s The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. Gutfeld, who was on the show to promote his Fox Nation game show, What Did I Miss?, spoke about meeting Fallon for the first time and being tackled by him at a bar in Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood. He also shared the magazine jobs he was fired from before landing at Fox News and what inspired him to give his mom a “senior correspondent” role on his first Fox News program.
