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 and Mushroom Kingdom. 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 Sophie Thibault on weekdays, and Bob Cutlass 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.

The opening and closing theme since August 2020 was composed in 2017 by Danish Steffen Breum for TV Avisen's current theme. For the International Edition, it uses a composition by Stephen Arnold, which was once used by French-Canadian newscast Le Téléjournal. The graphics for the 2020 version is designed by DR Design and Toke Blicher Møller.

International broadcast
The Centralist Weekend airs on SAN with a delayed telecast the next day at 01:00 Eastern Standard Time (12:00 Central Time) on its program SAN International, and every Sunday & Monday on ABN News/ABN News HD, with replays at 15:45 EST (14:45 Central) on MyTV, while The Centralist airs from Tuesday to Saturday.

The Centralist 's weeknight and weekend editions are aired worldwide via Central's international channel, Central International, with the weeknight editions also broadcast to overseas Laurentian viewers on WLCK, KTUL-TV, WMAR, WKTT and WDKT (all Koopa Troop Television Network O&Os), on DWPN (PhiNet), also on Canada Central on its program World News Programs, and on Central US & Central TVPH stations.

It is also aired on Spectrum News Liberty City from 13:00 to 15:00 ET.