He presented three out of four Friday editions.
This came after the 2009 discontinuation of Friday editions to cut down on costs.
In 1999, the programme had a Friday edition with a brief news summary before being dropped.
A year later, he was given his own a permanent section in the Friday edition of the newspaper.
The change saw 7.30 extended to five nights a week, although Friday editions continue to be presented locally and focus on state affairs.
On 18 October 2008 the Friday edition of the paper went tabloid.
In 2006, the event was moved to June 10-11, with the Friday edition for school children absent from the schedule.
The program, though small, has been successful enough to warrant publication in the Friday edition of the journal Science.
The Friday edition contains a section in Turkish as well.
Starting in January 2012, the newspaper cut its Friday edition.