The Situation Room

The Situation Room is a news program of CNN and CNN International hosted by Wolf Blitzer, and is broadcast from the CNN studio in Washington. Forerunner of this program was Wolf Blitzer reports. Currently, The Situation Room between 17.00-18.30 us time (ET). The program is rather also broadcast between 16: 00 and 19: 00 and between 17: 00 and 19: 00.

In the program is mainly political news covered. However, this is breaking news format at large put aside. Between 2008 and 2010 was also a part of the broadcast through CNN International to see. The start of this program was seen as an experiment by CNN, was the presenter for the first time, and were to see multiple images on a large screen. It was a success.

The show traditionally starts with the text "To Our Viewers in the United States and Around the World: I'm Wolf Blitzer and you're in the Situation Room."

The program was completely renewed Media 2012 broadcast from the redesigned CNN studio in Washington.