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CNN | Cable News Network | |
CNN | Communist News Network | |
CNN | Clinton News Network | |
CNN | Certainly Not News | |
CNN | Conservative News Network | |
CNN | Commercial News Network | |
CNN | Contains No News | |
CNN | Constant Negative News | |
CNN | Convolutional Neural Network | |
CNN | Clark News Network | |
CNN | CNA Income Shares, Inc. | |
CNN | Constantly Negative News | |
CNN | Christian News Network | |
CNN | Cartoon Network News | |
CNN | Complete Nonsense Network | |
CNN | Chicken News Network | |
CNN | The Comedy News Network | |
CNN | Celebrity News Network | |
CNN | Conditioning Not News | |
CNN | College of Natural Nutrition | |
CNN | The Censored News Network | |
CNN | Clintoon News Network | |
CNN | Cats News Network | |
CNN | Christ News Network | |
CNN | Clinton News Now |
What does CNN mean?
- CNN
- 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 sensationalistic. The network has also been criticized for its efforts to be nonpartisan, which have led to accusations of false balance.As of September 2018, CNN has 90.1 million television households as subscribers (97.7% of households with cable) in the United States. In 2019, CNN ranked third in viewership among cable news networks, behind Fox News and MSNBC, averaging 972,000 viewers. CNN ranks 14th among all basic cable networks.Globally, CNN programming airs through CNN International, which can be seen by viewers in over 212 countries and territories. The US domestic version, sometimes referred to as CNN (US) is also available in Canada, some islands of the Caribbean and in Japan, where it was first broadcast on CNNj in 2003, with simultaneous translation in Japanese. Starting in late 2010, the high definition feed of CNN US was launched in Japan for American viewers under the name "CNN/US HD", and is distributed by Japan Cable Television (JCTV) to several different multi-channel TV providers, such as J:COM, SKY PerfecTV!, iTSCOM and the JCTVWiFi service.
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