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Cable News Network ( CNN ) is an American news-based pay television channel owned by CNN Worldwide, a unit of the WarnerMedia News & Sports division of AT&T's WarnerMedia. It was founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel. Upon its launch in 1980, CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage, and was the first all-news television channel in the United States. While the news channel has numerous affiliates, CNN primarily broadcasts from WarnerMedia's headquarters at 30 Hudson Yards in New York City, and studios in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles. The CNN Center in Atlanta is only used for weekend programming. CNN is sometimes referred to as CNN/U.S. (or CNN Domestic ) to distinguish the U.S. channel from its international sister network, CNN International. The network is known for its dramatic live coverage of breaking news, some of which has drawn criticism as overly sensation...

Early history 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. 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. 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), more than 900 affiliated local stations (which also receive news and features content via the video newswire service CNN Newsource), and several regional and foreign-language networks around the world. The channel's success made a bona-fide mogul of founder Ted Turner and set the stage for conglomerate Time Warner's eventual acquisition o...

CNN's current weekday schedule consists mostly of rolling news programming during daytime hours, followed by in-depth news and information programs during the evening and prime time hours. The network's morning programming consists of Early Start , an early-morning news program hosted by Christine Romans and Laura Jarrett at 5–6 a.m. ET, which is followed by New Day , the network's morning show, hosted by Alisyn Camerota and John Berman at 6–9 a.m. ET. Most of CNN's late-morning and early afternoon programming consists of CNN Newsroom , a rolling news program hosted by Jim Sciutto and Poppy Harlow in the morning and Brooke Baldwin in the afternoon. In between the editions of Newsroom , At This Hour with Kate Bolduan airs at 11 a.m. to noon Eastern, followed by Inside Politics with John King , hosted by John King at noon Eastern, and CNN Right Now with Brianna Keilar at 1 p.m. Eastern. CNN's late afternoon and early evening lineup consists of The Lead with Jake Tap...

On July 27, 2012, CNN president Jim Walton announced he was resigning after 30 years at the network. Walton remained with CNN until the end of that year. In January 2013, former NBCUniversal President Jeff Zucker replaced Walton. On January 29, 2013, longtime political analysts James Carville and Mary Matalin, and fellow political contributor Erick Erickson were let go by CNN.

Website CNN launched its website, CNN.com (initially known as CNN Interactive ), on August 30, 1995. The site attracted growing interest over its first decade and is now one of the most popular news websites in the world. The widespread growth of blogs, social media and user-generated content have influenced the site, and blogs in particular have focused CNN's previously scattershot online offerings, most noticeably in the development and launch of CNN Pipeline in late 2005. citation needed In April 2009, CNN.com ranked third place among online global news sites in unique users in the U.S., according to Nielsen/NetRatings; with an increase of 11% over the previous year. CNN Pipeline was the name of a paid subscription service, its corresponding website, and a content delivery client that provided streams of live video from up to four sources (or "pipes"), on-demand access to CNN stories and reports, and optional pop-up "news alerts" to computer users. The insta...

Over the years, CNN has launched spin-off networks in the United States and other countries. Channels that currently operate as of 2014update include: CNN Airport CNN Brazil – a Brazilian news channel that launched on March 15, 2020. CNN Chile – a Chilean news channel that launched on December 4, 2008. CNN en Español CNN International CNN TÜRK – a Turkish media outlet. CNN-News18 – an Indian news channel. CNN Indonesia – an Indonesian news channel that launched on August 17, 2015. (co-owned with Trans Corp) CNNj – a Japanese news outlet. CNN Philippines – a Filipino news channel launched on March 16, 2015. CNN Prima News - a Czech news channel. (that launched on May 3, 2020., licensed to Prima Group) HLN Former channels CNN has also launched television and online ventures that are no longer in operation, including: CNN Checkout Channel (out-of-home place-based custom channel for grocery stores that started in 1991 and shuttered in 1993) CNN Italia (an Italian news website l...

CNN operates bureaus in the following cities as of January 2019update. United States Atlanta (World Headquarters) Chicago Dallas Denver Los Angeles Miami New York City San Francisco Washington, D.C. Worldwide CNN has regional headquarters in Abu Dhabi, Hong Kong, and London. Other bureau locations include: In parts of the world without a CNN bureau, reports from local affiliate station the network will be used to file a story.

2020: CNN's Ed Lavandera was awarded a Peabody for "The Hidden Workforce: Undocumented in America." CNN Films was awarded a Peabody for the documentary "Apollo 11." 2019: The USC Annenberg School awarded CNN with a Walter Cronkite Award for its Parkland Town Hall. 2018: CNN won a network-record six news & documentary Emmy Awards. They are, Outstanding Breaking News Coverage, Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story in a Newscast, Outstanding Live Interview, Outstanding Hard News Feature Story in a Newscast, Outstanding News Special, Outstanding Science, Medical and Environmental Report. 2018: CNN's Nima Elbagir to receive 2018 Courage in Journalism Award from the International Women's Media Foundation. 2018: CNN received the George Polk Award for Foreign Television Reporting for uncovering a hidden modern-day slave auction of African refugees in Libya. Reporting done by Nima Elbagir and Raja Razek. 2018: CNN received the Overseas Press Club of...