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Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news organization operating, most notably, a website and a TV channel headquartered in Atlanta.Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), [2] CNN was the first television channel to provide 24 ...
The Cable News Network (), is an American basic cable and satellite television channel owned by the CNN Worldwide division of Warner Bros. Discovery.Upon its launch, CNN became the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and was the first all-news television network in the United States.
CNN Worldwide operates the CNN news channel and other global broadcast news assets owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, including various international CNN branches. The division is led by Mark Thompson .
The husband and wife team of Dave Walker and Lois Hart news anchored the first newscast. Burt Reinhardt, then executive vice president of CNN, hired most of the channel's first 200 employees and 25-member staff including Bernard Shaw, the network's first news anchor. In 1981, Turner Broadcasting System acquired Brut Productions from Faberge Inc ...
Cable News Network International or CNN International (CNNi, simply branded on-air as CNN) is an international television channel and website, owned by CNN Worldwide. CNN International carries news-related programming worldwide; it cooperates with sister network CNN's national and international news bureaus.
Rupert Murdoch and Ted Turner (founder and former owner of CNN) are long-standing rivals. [122] In late 2003, Murdoch acquired a 34% stake in Hughes Electronics, the operator of the largest American satellite TV system, DirecTV, from General Motors for $6 billion (USD). [41] His Fox movie studio had global hits with Titanic and Avatar. [123]
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CNN+ was a subscription streaming service and online news channel owned by the CNN division of WarnerMedia News & Sports.It was announced on July 19, 2021, and launched on March 29, 2022, but shut down less than a month later on April 28, 2022.