''Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer'' is a Sunday talk show hosted by

Wolf Blitzer Wolf Isaac Blitzer (born March 22, 1948) is an American journalist, television news anchor, and author who has been a CNN reporter since 1990, and who currently serves as one of the principal anchors at the network. He is the host of ''The Situa ...

CNN CNN (Cable News Network) is a multinational cable news channel headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by ...

and broadcast around the world by

CNN International CNN International (CNNI, simply branded on-air as CNN) is an international television channel that is owned by CNN Global. CNN International carries news-related programming worldwide; it cooperates with sister network CNN's national and inte ...

. The show's slogan was ''The last word in Sunday talk'' and comments made on the show were often featured in the following Monday's news headlines. The show, launched on October 3, 1993, was moderated by Frank Sesno until January 11, 1998, and by

from January 18, 1998 to January 11, 2009. The program aired at 11:00 AM ET and thus was the last of the Sunday talk shows to air in most East Coast markets, hence the name "Late Edition." (It was, however, the first to air on the West Coast, at 8:00 AM PT, since its other broadcast network competitors, including Fox News Sunday, aired on same-day tape delay on the West Coast at various times). On December 8, 2008, CNN announced that the show would end the following month to make way for a new 4 hour news block hosted by John King. The final ''Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer'' aired on January 11, 2009. The new newsblock, called ''

State of the Union with John King ''State of the Union'', branded as ''State of the Union with Jake Tapper and Dana Bash'', is an American Sunday talk show and political discussion television program on CNN and broadcast around the world by CNN International. It has been co-an ...

'', began airing on January 18, 2009.

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