Central Eyewitness News

The Centralist is the flagship newscast of the Central Television Network, which airs at 7:00PM local time on the Central stations across the Federal Republic of St. Lawrence, Mushroom Kingdom, the United States, Canada, and the Philippines. It also airs on NewsWorld, live at 6PM EST--or 7PM EST when the newscast begins its nightly run across the network—with hourly repeats until 11:00 pm EST (10PM Central). The previous day's newscast can be seen on the Internet. The anchors are Jean-Pierre Pernaut on weekdays, and Béatrice Schönberg on weekends.

The newscast ran for 45 minutes until it was expanded to a an hour and 30 minutes in the early 1990s, then finally 2 hours in 2001 (following the September 11 attacks). Local newscasts are never broadcast nationally. Stories from local stations that have national importance are taken from the local O&O, and a 'national reporter' re-does the story, often from a location hundreds or even thousands of miles from the location of the story. The national reporter always mentions their name and location where they are based at the end of the story, even though that location is often different from the location of the story.