Jacquie Perrin was the program's most recent regular anchor, although that position had rotated frequently among CBC personalities in the newscast's later years.
Its format has also changed over the years, with a lengthy sports highlights segment - found in few other CBC newscasts - replaced by additional features and panel discussions in 2001.
The program was rebranded as the Saturday edition of The National in September 2009, shortly before the news division's overall relaunch in late October.
The Saturday edition of The National followed a similar broadcast schedule until it was discontinued in late 2017, by which point many CBC stations had filled the timeslot with local newscasts; the remaining stations now air a simulcast of CBC News Network's rolling coverage.
A similar update aired during the first intermission of HNIC late games for a longer period but has since also been discontinued.