The Weekend News, later called as ABS-CBN Weekend News, was a weekend newscast and the first Filipino language weekend newscast aired every Saturday and Sunday aired and produced by ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs from 1996 to 2004.

When the newscast first aired in 1996 as The Weekend News, it first used English

English language

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 as its primary language. The newscast switched to Filipino

Filipino language

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 in 1999 after The World Tonight

The World Tonight (ABS-CBN)

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left Channel 2 for ANC

ABS-CBN News Channel

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 the day before, making it the first weekend newscast to broadcast in Filipino. It was relaunched as ABS-CBN Weekend News in 2001. The newscast ended in 2004 to make way for TV Patrol Sabado/Linggo.