The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer

This article is about the CNN news program. For other uses, see Situation Room (disambiguation).

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer
Title card
Presented by	Wolf Blitzer
Country of origin	United States
Production
Location(s)	CNN Studios Washington, D.C.
Running time	120 minutes
Release
Original network	CNN
Picture format	1080i (16:9 HDTV)
Original release	August 8, 2005 (2005-08-08) – present
External links
Website

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer is an afternoon, early evening newscast on CNN hosted by Wolf Blitzer that first aired on August 8, 2005.

The broadcast currently airs weekdays live from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm ET from Washington D.C.

Format

Secretary of State John Kerry with Wolf Blitzer.

The show begins with the following open: "Happening Now ..... We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. I'm Wolf Blitzer, and You're in the Situation Room", which includes highlights of what the show will discuss. Current events, breaking news, political headlines, and extraordinary reports all with discussions happen during the lively program.

The show also makes use of top CNN journalists from across the network and political analysts. They include Brian Todd, Gloria Borger, and John King.

By 2012, CNN's Washington D.C. studios were completely redesigned giving The Situation Room a newly updated look.^[1]

Former Situation Room main contributors include Lisa Sylvester who showcased reports and headlines, Jack Cafferty who presented The Cafferty File, and Kate Bolduan who briefly co-hosted part of the program with Wolf Blitzer.

Preceded by The Lead with Jake Tapper	*The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer* 2005–present	Succeeded by Erin Burnett OutFront

References

↑ Newscast Studio (10 September 2012). "CNN debuts sleek new studio in Washington". NewscastStudio. Retrieved 10 September 2012.

External links

Evening television news and talk programs in the United States

Broadcast

ABC	ABC World News Tonight

CBS	CBS Evening News

NBC	NBC Nightly News

PBS	Nightly Business Report PBS NewsHour

Univision	Noticiero Univision

Telemundo	Noticiero Telemundo

Cable television

BBC World News	BBC World News America Newsday

Bloomberg Television	With All Due Respect Bloomberg West

CNBC	Fast Money Mad Money

CNN	The Lead with Jake Tapper The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer Erin Burnett OutFront Anderson Cooper 360° CNN Tonight

Fox Business Network	Lou Dobbs Tonight

Fox News Channel	Special Report with Bret Baier On the Record w/ Greta Van Susteren Fox Report Weekend

MSNBC	MTP Daily With All Due Respect (rebroadcast) Hardball with Chris Matthews

The Weather Channel	Weather Underground

See also: Morning; Daytime talk; Evening news; Late night; Overnight news; Sunday talk; Newsmagazines; Tabloid

CNN programming

Weekday	Early Start with John Berman and Christine Romans New Day CNN Newsroom with Carol Costello At This Hour with Berman and Bolduan Legal View with Ashleigh Banfield Wolf CNN Newsroom with Brooke Baldwin The Lead with Jake Tapper The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer This Is Life with Lisa Ling Erin Burnett OutFront Anderson Cooper 360° CNN Tonight Somebody's Gotta Do It

Weekend	New Day Saturday New Day Sunday Smerconish CNN Newsroom with Victor Blackwell and Christi Paul CNN Newsroom with Fredricka Whitfield CNN Newsroom with Poppy Harlow CNN Special Investigations Unit Inside Politics with John King Race for the White House State of the Union Fareed Zakaria GPS Reliable Sources with Brian Stelter Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown The Hunt with John Walsh

Special	CNN Presents CNN Heroes Chicagoland The Sixties The Seventies The Eighties United Shades of America

Former	American Morning Around the World Business Morning Campbell Brown Capital Gang CNN Daybreak CNN Live Today CNN Money CNN NewsStand Connie Chung Tonight Crossfire D. L. Hughley Breaks the News Evans, Novak, Hunt & Shields In the Arena Larry King Live NewsNight with Aaron Brown The Next List Paula Zahn Now (Get to) The Point People in the News Sports Tonight Starting Point Style with Elsa Klensch TalkBack Live The Real Football Factories International (was shown on CNNI) Wolf Blitzer Reports Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer Your World Today (shown on CNNI, now cancelled) This Week in Politics Lou Dobbs This Week Lou Dobbs Tonight Rick's List John King, USA Your Bottom Line Piers Morgan Live Sanjay Gupta MD

Related articles	History of CNN (1980–2003)

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