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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ295841 ↗
Source-derived summary

Now most commonly refers

to the present time.

Now, NOW, or The Now may also refer to:

Organizations

Natal Organisation of Women, a South African women's organization

National Organization for Women, an American feminist organization

National Oversight and Whistleblowers (NOW), a Malaysian NGO

Now! (political party), a liberal political party in Poland

Ora! (English: Now!), a centrist political party in Italy

NOW Venture Capital, a Tokyo-based venture capital co-founded by a Kazuma Ieiri

NYSE ticker symbol for ServiceNow, a cloud computing company

Media

9Now, an Australian video-on-demand service

Now (streaming service)

Now Business News Channel, a 24-hour finance news channel

Now (British TV channel), a British television channel that started broadcasting in 1990 and ceased the same year

Now TV (Hong Kong), a Hong Kong pay-TV service provider headquartered in Wan Chai North, Victoria City operated by PCCW Media Limited

Now (Turkish TV channel), a Turkish general entertainment channel owned by The Walt Disney Company, formerly known as TGRT (1993–2007) and Fox (2007–2024)

NOW.com, an online TV/broadband network, formerly Network of the World owned by PCCW

NOW News, a Beirut-based Lebanese news website focused on the Middle East published in English and Arabic

NOWTV, the previous on-air name of CHNU-DT in Surrey, British Columbia

Now (brand), a brand of electronic devices produced by Hasbro

Film, episode, or TV series

No Opportunity Wasted, a Discovery Channel TV series hosted by Phil Keoghan

"Now" (The Walking Dead), an episode of the television series The Walking Dead

In Time, formerly titled Now, a 2011 American science fiction film

Now with Tom Brokaw and Katie Couric, referred to as Now, a 1993–94 news program

Now on PBS, formerly NOW with Bill Moyers, a TV newsmagazine which aired from 2002 to 2010

Now with Alex Wagner, an MSNBC news program premiering in 2011

The Now, combination local news/national news program broadcast on E. W. Scripps Company television affiliates

Printed media

Now (1940–1947), a political and literary periodical founded by George Woodcock

NOW! (1979–81 magazine), a short-lived UK news magazine

Now (newspaper) (1981–), also known as NOW Magazine, a Canadian alternative newsweekly

The Now (newspaper) (1984–2017), a Canadian biweekly

NOW Comics, an American comics publisher, active 1985–2005

Now (1996–2019 magazine), a former British weekly entertainment magazine

TV Now (2000–), an Irish television magazine

Now (manhwa) (2001–2007), a Korean graphic novel weekly, 2001-7

Now (book), a 2017 book about radical leftist politics by anonymous author(s) The Invisible Committee

Music

The Now, an English punk rock group

The Now, a name used by American rock band Tripsichord Music Box

NOW Nightmares on Wax, DJ and electronic music composer

Now That's What I Call Music!, a series of various artist compilation albums released in the United Kingdom and Ireland

Albums

Now (Anna Abreu album), 2008 album by Finnish singer Anna Abreu

Now, or Now Fred Astaire, 1959 album by Fred Astaire

Now (Astrud Gilberto album), 1972 album by Astrud Gilberto

Now (Bibi Zhou album), 2007 album by Chinese singer Bibi Zhou

Now (Black Uhuru album), 1990 album by Jamaican reggae band Black Uhuru

Now! (Bobby Hutcherson album), 1970 album by jazz vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson

Now (Cara Jones album), 2000 album by Cara Jones

Now (Dionne Warwick album), 2012 album by Dionne Warwick

Now (The Dubliners album), 1975 album by The Dubliners

Now (Eric Kloss album), 1978 album by saxophonist Eric Kloss

Now (Fireflight album), 2012 album released by Christian rock band Fireflight

Now! (France Joli album), 1982 album by singer France Joli

Now! (Other Dimensions In Music album), 1997 album by jazz quartet Other Dimensions In Music

Now (Girugamesh album), 2010 album by Girugämesh

Now (Graham Nash album), 2023

Now (Jade Warrior album), 2008 album by British band Jade Warrior

Now (Jessica Andrews album), 2003 album by country music singer Jessica Andrews

Now (John Paul Young album), 1996 album by Australian pop singer John Paul Young

Now (Nearly 36), 2003 album by King Creosote

Now (Maxwell album), 2001 album by American R&B singer Maxwell

Now (Mucky Pup album), 1990 album by hardcore band Mucky Pup

Now (MYMP album), 2008 album by M.Y.M.P.

Now (The New Seekers album), 1973 album by British pop group The New Seekers

Now (Patrice Rushen album), 1984 album by American Patrice Rushen

Now (Peter Frampton album), 2003 album by Peter Frampton

Now (Paul Rodgers album), 1997 album by English rock musician Paul Rodger

Now (Se So Neon album), 2025 album by South Korean indie rock band Se So Neon

Now (Shania Twain album), 2017 album by Canadian Shania Twain

Now! (Sonny Stitt album), 1963 album by jazz saxophonist Sonny Stitt

Now (Ten Years After album), 2004 album by blues rock band Ten Years After

Now (Vigleik Storaas album), 2007 album by Vigleik Storaas Trio

Now (The Tubes album), 1977 album by The Tubes

Now, an album by Bhagavan Das

Now, 1972 album by George Baker

Now, 2001 album by Greg Long

Now, 1997 album by Kosmos Express

Now, 1973 album by Lou Sino

Now, 1955 album by Steve Roach

Now (EP), 1992 EP by Band of Susans

Songs

"Now" (Def Leppard song), from the album X

"Now" (Joywave song), from the album How Do You Feel Now?

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Now” is wikimedia disambiguation page. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Wikimedia, disambiguation and page, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1990, 1993, 2007, 2024—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Wikimedia, disambiguation and page is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “wikimedia disambiguation page” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q295841. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1990, 1993, 2007 and 2024.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “Now” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.