By the late 1960s, news and public affairs programs were pioneered by ABS-CBN and ABC. The "Big News" (in English) on ABC's DZTM-TV Channel 5 and "The World Tonight" (in English) on ABS-CBN's DZAQ-TV Channel 2 were the first news programs on Philippine television, followed in that same period by "Newswatch" (in English) of KBS's DZKB-TV Channel 9. ABS-CBN pioneered Filipino language news programming in the primetime slots, with DZAQ-TV Channel 2 having "Balita Ngayon" and DZXL-TV Channel 4 having "Apat na Sulok ng Daigdig", with Orly Mercado as its first presenter.