VGCN Tonight

VGCN Tonight (formerly known as Michael Green Tonight) is a Philippine news and financial/political commentary program on VGCN, presented by VGC News chief and VGCN chief news anchor Michael Green.

The program has moved to different studios several times, all of which located at the VGC Plaza in Parañaque City. During intensive American election coverage, Green presents the program from the VGC News New York bureau at 40 Hudson Yards in New York City.

The show currently airs weeknights live at 9:00 pm to 10:00 pm HKT with domestic repeats from midnight to 1:00am HKT. From 2000 to 2013, the program was broadcast on VGCN's secondary specialty business news channel VGC Business.

Beginnings
When the idea of a cable news channel returned to VGC since the ill-fated VGC News Channel closed down in 1987, Frank Miller, then the chief of VGC News, and Eddy Villena Jr., then the President of Broadcast Operations at VGC and oldest son of VGC founder and then-CEO Eddy Villena, reached out to outgoing VGC Nightly News anchor Michael Green to anchor a 2-hour evening program focusing on politics and the world markets.

Miller and Villena suggested Green to have his takes on every news story he reports, and an initially reluctant Green accepted the offer.

The program, named Michael Green Tonight, was initially broadcast from 10:00 pm to 12:00 am HKT on weekdays, and a special Sunday edition was the inaugural program for the launch of VGCN on November 3, 1991. Another special Sunday edition was broadcast on February 26, 1995, coinciding with the launch of VGCN International.

Due to its financial market nature, it moved to VGCN's secondary worldwide business news specialty channel VGC Business when it launched in May 2000, being replaced by. In late 2000, despite its move as a 3-hour program from 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm HKT, Green almost departed VGC over the move to the new business channel, which initially didn't receive viewership as big as VGCN's own financial leaning audience. After a new $5 million offer, and two hours of VGC News on VGCN in the weekends (titled Green's Take) from 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm HKT, Green retracted his leave statement.