Lateline

Lateline
Genre	News and current affairs
Presented by	Emma Alberici (2012–2017) Ali Moore (2011) Leigh Sales (2008–2010) Virginia Trioli (2007–2008) Tony Jones (1999–2016) Maxine McKew (2001–2006, 1995–1999) Kerry O'Brien (1990–1995)
Country of origin	Australia
Original language	English
No. of seasons	28
Production
Producer	ABC News and Current Affairs
Production locations	Sydney, New South Wales
Editor	Chris Schembri
Running time	30 minutes
Original release
Network	ABC ABC News (2010–2017)
Release	13 February 1990 (1990-02-13) – 8 December 2017 (2017-12-08)
Related
The Business (2006 to present)
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Lateline was an Australian television news program which ran from 1990 until 2017. The program initially aired weeknights on ABC TV. In later years it was also broadcast internationally throughout Asia and the Pacific on the Australia Plus Satellite Network, and on the 24-hour ABC News Channel.

The late evening current affairs program developed a longstanding reputation for setting the agenda of the following days' news across the continent. It was well known to feature head-to-head debates on current issues, hard hitting political interviews, and attracted the appearance of many world leaders in industry, politics and media. It was labelled by the influential Australian online website Crikey magazine as being, "an unmissable current affairs program that almost certainly creates more headlines in the next day's newspapers than any other TV show in the country."^[1] The program's late timeslot in AEST benefited enormously from its favourable alignment with overseas correspondents.