CBS announced its decision to cancel "CBS News Nightwatch" in early 1992. Around this time, ABC and NBC were setting up their own late-night newscast programs ("World News Now" and "NBC Nightside", respectively; only "World News Now" is still on the air) and replaced it with a more traditional news program in the same vein as the other two, titled "Up to the Minute", on March 30, 1992. The program was originally anchored by Russ Mitchell and Monica Gayle, who both left the program in 1993 (Gayle subsequently became co-anchor of the "CBS Morning News"), and were replaced by Troy Roberts, at which point the program switched to the single-anchor format which it used for the rest of its run. Regular on-air contributors to "Up to the Minute" included John Quain, who served as the program's technology consultant beginning in 1998.