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ABC News is promoting “World News Now” co-anchor Rob Nelson, naming him a correspondent for all programs and platforms.

“Rob distinguished himself on the overnight leading the network’s coverage of the Japanese tsunami, a story that broke just before WNN airtime,” writes ABC News president Ben Sherwood in an email to staff this morning. “He also led a two-hour ABC News Special Report last summer following the late-night theater massacre in Aurora, and he’s reported often for the weekend editions of World News and GMA.”

John Muller will be named the new co-anchor of “World News Now.” Before joining ABC as a reporter in 2011, Muller spent 11 years as the anchor of the PIX 11 morning news on New York’s WPIX.

Sherwood’s note, after the jump.
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“ABC World News Now” co-anchor Paula Faris will become a correspondent for the network, reporting for all of the shows and platforms. Her last day on “WNN” will be Tuesday, where she is expected to receive a proper sendoff.  Faris will be replaced on “WNN” by regular fill-in anchor Diana Perez, who had been a correspondent for NewsOne. Perez will join Rob Nelson on the “WNN” anchor desk.

Linzie Janis will be joining ABC News in New York as a correspondent. She had been reporting for Bloomberg TV in London for the last four years.

Marci Gonzalez will join ABC as a correspondent for NewsOne, and joins the network from WABC where she was a correspondent.

More info in Sherwood’s note, after the jump.
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About 90 minutes later, at 4:53amET, “World News Now” anchors Rob Nelson and Paula Farris led a special report (video after the jump) that was broadcast with coverage from ABC affiliate KMGH, which, as TVSPY reports, first began reporting the story around 2:40amMT.

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Here’s how several ABC programs reported Monday’s news of the new ABC News/Univision network:

• :23 minutes into Monday’s “The View,” Barbara Walters: “My other home. ABC News. I want to congratulate them and the ABC News president Ben Sherwood on today’s announcement that they are joining forces with Univision.”

• :12 minutes into “World News,” Diane Sawyer: “ABC News is joining forces with Univision (says Sawyer with Spanish inflection) … launching the first cable channel of its kind: a 24/7 news and lifestyle network, broadcasting in English, covering issues of particular interest to Hispanics in America.”

• :24 minutes into “Nightline,” Terry Moran: “All of us at Nightline would like to welcome a new member to our broadcast family … We look forward to working with our colleagues there… very excited about it.”

• :25 past the hour of “World News Now:” Anchors Rob Nelson (in English) and Sunny Hostin (in Spanish) introduced a report by ABC’s Diana Perez.

• 8:26am on “GMA,” Eva Longoria with Robin Roberts: “I think it’s important. I think it’s great that ABC is paying attention to the largest emerging market.” Roberts: “We got it goin’ on!”

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Faris joins ABC from WMAQ, the NBC station in Chicago, where she has been a sports anchor and reporter for the past six years. News of her hire was first reported by Time Out Chicago’s Robert Feder in October; an official announcement was delayed until Faris’ contract with WMAQ was finished.

In addition to co-anchoring the overnight newscast with Rob Nelson, Faris will contribute to “Good Morning America,” where she will join her former WMAQ colleague Ginger Zee.

Read the full announcement from Sherwood after the jump.

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Two familiar Chicago faces are headed to New York. WMAQ meteorologist Ginger Zee (left) and WMAQ sports anchor Paula Faris (right) are both set to join ABC News in New York. Robert Feder, who knows about all things Chicago TV, has been reporting the developments of both.

ABC News tells TVNewser Zee will join “Good Morning America” weekend this Saturday.

GMA weekend has been without a regular weather anchor since the departure of Marysol Castro last September. (Castro jumped to CBS’s ‘Early Show’ but that only lasted 9 months.)

Meanwhile, Faris is expected to be named co-anchor of “World News Now” later this year, when her WMAQ contract ends. She will join Rob Nelson on the ABC overnight show.

Faris has been with WMAQ since 2005, Zee since 2006. A third WMAQ talent, morning co-anchor Zoraida Sambolin, is joining CNN as part of the revamp of their “American Morning.”

The Zee and Faris hires at ABC have the added benefit of taking top talent away from an NBC O&O which can help their competitors, including Chicago’s ABC station WLS (which doesn’t need much help since they’ve been #1 forever).

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Among the ABC News talent on hand Diane Sawyer, Barbara Walters, Katie Couric, Christiane Amanpour, George Stephanopoulos, Robin Roberts, Sam Champion, Lara Spencer, Josh Elliott, Cynthia McFadden, Bill Weir, Terry Moran, Bianna Golodryga, Dan Harris, Ron Claiborne, Chris Cuomo, Elizabeth Vargas, Bob Woodruff, John Quinones, David Muir, Brian Ross, Jake Tapper and Rob Nelson.

Expect to see the photos in marketing a promotional materials on air and online, soon.

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ABC News tells TVNewser the network will rotate anchors for the time being alongside Rob Nelson.

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As TVSpy reported yesterday, Peggy Bunker will be doing temporary fill-in on the show alongside co-anchor Rob Nelson who joined last May.

The WNN Facebook Fan page has much more on Nair’s departure.

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In Hubbard’s honor, the “World News Now” staff took a look back at his time with the program:

As is tradition at “World News Now,” Hubbard had his likeness raised into the ABC News rafters. There was also a polka, sung to Hubbard’s dog Jake.

Check it out after the jump.

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New Orleans WLL-TV anchor Rob Nelson has been officially announced as the new co-anchor of ABC’s “World News Now.” He starts July 5th 7th. As TVNewser reported first last month, Nelson replaces current co-host Jeremy Hubbard who was promoted to a Digital Correspondent for the network. Release after the jump.

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First on TVNewser: “World News Now,” ABC’s middle-of-the-night news program, is about to see another change at the anchor desk. TVNewser has learned that Jeremy Hubbard, who joined the broadcast in 2008, is departing “World News Now” for a promotion to digital correspondent for ABC News. (Welcome back to daylight, Jeremy)

ABC News is hiring Rob Nelson, morning news anchor at CBS-affiliate WWL-TV in New Orleans, to co-anchor the program with Vinita Nair. No word yet on his official start date.

“World News Now” has been something of a revolving door for young, promising talent. Since the show’s launch in 1992, the newscast’s seen Anderson Cooper, Juju Chang, Alison Stewart, Aaron Brown, Kevin Newman, David Muir, and others pass through the anchor chair.

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