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Cable News Network (CNN) is an American news-based pay television channel owned by WarnerMedia News & Sports, a division of AT&T's WarnerMedia.[1] CNN was founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner as a 24-hour cable news channel.[2] Upon its launch, CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage,[3] and was the first all-news television channel in the United States.[4]

While the news channel has numerous affiliates, CNN primarily broadcasts from the Time Warner Center in New York City, and studios in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles. Its headquarters at the CNN Center in Atlanta is only used for weekend programming. CNN is sometimes referred to as CNN/U.S. (or CNN Domestic[5]) to distinguish the American channel from its international sister network, CNN International.

As of August 2010, CNN is available in over 100 million U.S. households.[6] Broadcast coverage of the U.S. channel extends to over 890,000 American hotel rooms,[6] as well as carriage on subscription providers throughout Canada. As of July 2015, CNN is available to about 96,374,000 pay-television households (82.8% of households with at least one television set) in the United States.[7] Globally, CNN programming airs through CNN International, which can be seen by viewers in over 212 countries and territories.[8]

History[edit]

Early history[edit]

Main article: History of CNN (1980–2003)

The Cable News Network was launched at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on June 1, 1980. After an introduction by Ted Turner, the husband and wife team of David Walker and Lois Hart anchored the channel's first newscast.[9] Burt Reinhardt, the executive vice president of CNN at its launch, hired most of the channel's first 200 employees, including the network's first news anchor, Bernard Shaw.[10]

Since its debut, CNN has expanded its reach to a number of cable and satellite television providers, several websites, and specialized closed-circuit channels (such as CNN Airport). The company has 42 bureaus (11 domestic, 31 international),[11] more than 900 affiliated local stations (which also receive news and features content via the video newswire service CNN Newsource),[12] and several regional and foreign-language networks around the world.[13] The channel's success made a bona-fide mogul of founder Ted Turner[14] and set the stage for conglomerate Time Warner's eventual acquisition of the Turner Broadcasting System in 1996.[15]

A companion channel, CNN2, was launched on January 1, 1982[16] and featured a continuous 24-hour cycle of 30-minute news broadcasts.[17] The channel, which later became known as CNN Headline News and is now known as simply HLN, eventually focused on live news coverage supplemented by personality-based programs during the evening and primetime hours.

  1. ↑ Time Warner: Turner Broadcasting Archived January 22, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑ "Charles Bierbauer, CNN senior Washington correspondent, discusses his 19-year career at CNN. (May 8, 2000)". Cnn.com. Retrieved October 12, 2013.
  3. ↑ "CNN changed news – for better and worse". Taipei Times. May 31, 2005. Retrieved January 24, 2009.
  4. ↑ Kiesewetter, John (May 28, 2000). "In 20 years, CNN has changed the way we view the news". Cincinnati Enquirer. Retrieved January 24, 2009.
  5. ↑ "CNN Show Pages". www.cnn.com. Retrieved August 30, 2016.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "This date in deal history: CNN begins broadcasting". Deal Magazine. May 31, 2006. Archived from the original on June 24, 2009. Retrieved June 26, 2006. Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (help)
  7. ↑ Staff (July 21, 2015). "List of how many homes each cable network is in as of July 2015". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved August 9, 2017.
  8. ↑ "CNN is Viewers Cable Network of Choice for Democratic and Republican National Convention Coverage". Time Warner. August 18, 2000. Retrieved February 20, 2010.
  9. ↑ Barkin, Steve Michael; Sharpe, M.E. (2003). American Television News: The Media Marketplace and the Public Interest.
  10. ↑ Wiseman, Lauren (May 10, 2011). "Burt Reinhardt dies at 91: Newsman helped launch CNN". The Washington Post. Retrieved May 19, 2011.
  11. ↑ "Cable News: Fact Sheet". Pew Research Center's Journalism Project. June 15, 2016. Retrieved April 20, 2017.
  12. ↑ "CNN Newsource". CNN Newsource. Retrieved April 20, 2017.
  13. ↑ Sterling, Christopher H. (September 25, 2009). Encyclopedia of journalism. 6. Appendices. SAGE. ISBN 9780761929574.
  14. ↑ Tyree, Omar (April 27, 2009). The Equation: Applying the 4 Indisputable Components of Business Success. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9780470452837.
  15. ↑ "Ted Turner, the Lost Tycoon". The New Yorker. Retrieved April 20, 2017.
  16. ↑ Leon, Charles L. Ponce de (May 4, 2015). That's the Way It Is: A History of Television News in America. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226472454.
  17. ↑ Alvarado, Manuel; Buonanno, Milly; Gray, Herman; Miller, Toby (December 9, 2014). The SAGE Handbook of Television Studies. SAGE. ISBN 9781473911086.
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