The weekend edition of ABC's World News Tonight premiered as "World News Sunday" on January 28, 1979, with Sam Donaldson as anchor. The Saturday Edition (World News Saturday) premiered on January 5, 1985, with Kathleen Sullivan as Anchor. These editions added to the word "Tonight" to the program title in the mid 1990s. In the mid 2000s, their respective names were shortened uniformly to "World News Tonight" to correspond with those broadcasts. The original names were restored on July 19, 2006.