Prime of the Ticker: An essential 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, over time, morphed right into a two-hour late-morning present co-anchored by Blitzer and Pamela Brown. Regardless of the timeslot adjustments 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 wanting again on the present’s first day and highlights from over time.

One other CNN present is celebrating an anniversary as CNN Worldwide’s Connecting Africa turns 5 years previous. To mark the anniversary, CNN anchor and correspondent Eleni Giokos and Connecting Africa correspondent Victoria Rubadiri recorded a special episode of the show 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 shall be a compilation of his unique protection this week from Ukraine on the nation’s superior drone warfare program and the way the battle has advanced during the last 3 ½ years.

Late-night look: Fox Information’ late-night host Greg Gutfeld made his approach 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 recreation 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 offer his mother a “senior correspondent” function on his first Fox Information program.