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General information
Reception: Cable , satellite , satellite radio
Owner: Turner Broadcasting System
Start of broadcast: June 1, 1980
Legal form: Private law
Program type: Division program (information)
Website: edition.cnn.com
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Cable News Network (abbreviated: CNN ) is an American television station based in Atlanta , Georgia . It was founded by Ted Turner as the world's first pure news broadcaster and began broadcasting on June 1, 1980. CNN is operated by the Turner Broadcasting System , which has been a subsidiary of the WarnerMedia media group since 1996 . President and thus the main person in charge of the station is Jeff Zucker.

history

After the successful establishment of the broadcaster WTBS, media entrepreneur Ted Turner founded the news broadcaster CNN in 1980 with 225 employees in 10 offices and a seed capital of 20 million US dollars. At the time, news on major American television programs was only offered on 30-minute evening shows. It began broadcasting on June 1, 1980 at 6:00 p.m. EST with a speech by Turner ("We won't shut down until the world ends") and a report on the attempted assassination of civil rights activist Vernon Jordan . David Walker and Lois Hart were the first two newscasters. At the start of the broadcast, CNN could only be received in just under 1.7 million households and worked deficit in the first few years. During this time CNN also acquired the nickname Chicken Noodle News (Network) . Nevertheless, Turner continued to invest in the station's infrastructure and opened more studios in other countries. 1983 bought Turner's main competitors are CNN, the satellite news channel of ABC .

With the coverage of the Challenger catastrophe , which CNN broadcast live, the fall of the Berlin Wall as well as the live coverage of the beginning of the Second Gulf War by Peter Arnett , Bernard Shaw and John Holliman from the roof of the Hotel Raschid in Baghdad , CNN became national and international known to the general public. As cable television adoption grew in the US, so too did CNN's audience. The so-called "Breaking News" were characteristic of the program of CNN and later of all other news channels; Interruptions to the normal program in the event of current events. On August 30, 1995, the website was founded as CNN Interactive ; as CNN.com , it became one of the most visited online news portals in the United States. In 1996, Ted Turner sold CNN to the Time Warner media group for $ 7.4 billion and became the group's vice president, responsible for the television division. Nonetheless, CNN suffered losses with increasing competition in the news channel market. For years, the station has only been number two in audience favor behind its main competitor Fox News . In 2009, the last presenter of the early days and founder of CNNfn left the station due to content differences with Lou Dobbs .

In mid-February 2017, the Venezuelan government switched off the terrestrial transmission CNN en Espanol in Venezuela. This was preceded by a dispute over reports by the station that Venezuela in the Middle East had been selling passports and visas for several thousand US dollars for years.

program

CNN studio, January 2009

Monday - Thursday

Time ( EST ) broadcast description Moderator
4:00 am to 6:00 am Early Start with John Berman and Christine Romans Morning show John Berman & Christine Romans
6:00 am to 9:00 am New Day Morning show John Berman & Alisyn Camerota
9 a.m. - 11 a.m. CNN Newsroom News broadcast with current content Carol Costello
11 a.m. - 12 p.m. At this hour 11 am edition of CNN Newsroom Kate Bolduan
12 p.m. - 1 p.m. Inside Politics Politics and world events John King
1 p.m. - 2 p.m. wolf Politics and world events Wolf speed camera
2 p.m. - 4 p.m. CNN Newsroom News broadcast with current content Brooke Baldwin
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. The lead with Jake Tapper Review of the events of the previous day Jake Tapper
5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer Political topics Wolf speed camera
7 p.m. - 8 p.m. Erin Burnett OutFront Investigative format Erin Burnett
8 p.m. - 9 p.m. Anderson Cooper 360 ° Political topics Anderson Cooper
9 p.m. - 10 p.m. Cuomo prime time Political issues and interviews Chris Cuomo
10 p.m. - 12 a.m. CNN Tonight with Don Lemon Review of the day's events Don Lemon
00.00-04.00 a.m. Anderson Cooper 360 ° , Cuomo Prime Time and CNN Tonight with Don Lemon Program repetitions changing

Friday

Time ( EST ) broadcast description Moderator
4:00 am to 6:00 am Early Start with John Berman and Christine Romans Morning show John Berman & Christine Romans
6:00 am to 9:00 am New Day Morning show John Berman & Alisyn Camerota
9 a.m. - 11 a.m. CNN Newsroom News broadcast with current content Carol Costello
11 a.m. - 1 p.m. At This Hour Kate Bolduan 11 am edition of CNN Newsroom Kate Bolduan
1 p.m. - 2 p.m. wolf Politics and world events Wolf speed camera
2 p.m. - 4 p.m. CNN Newsroom News broadcast with current content Brooke Baldwin
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. The lead with Jake Tapper Review of the events of the previous day Jake Tapper
5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer Political topics Wolf speed camera
7 p.m. - 8 p.m. Erin Burnett OutFront Investigative format Erin Burnett
8 p.m. - 9 p.m. Anderson Cooper 360 ° Political topics Anderson Cooper
9 p.m. - 10 p.m. Cuomo prime time Political issues and interviews Chris Cuomo
10 p.m. - 11 p.m. CNN Tonight with Don Lemon Review of the day's events Don Lemon
11 p.m. - 4 a.m. CNN Original Series or CNN Special Report Documentation and special editions changing

Saturday

Time ( EST ) broadcast description Moderator
4:00 am to 6:00 am CNN Newsroom Live (CNNI) Program takeover from CNN International changing
6:00 am to 9:00 am New Day Saturday Morning show Victor Blackwell & Christi Paul
9 a.m. - 10 a.m. Smerconish Weekly review Michael Smerconish
10 a.m. to 6 p.m. CNN Newsroom Current news broadcast changing
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Smerconish Repetition of the 9 a.m. broadcast Michael Smerconish
7 p.m. - 8 p.m. CNN Newsroom Current news broadcast changing
8 p.m. - 4 a.m. CNN Original Series or CNN Special Report Documentation and special editions changing

Sunday

Time ( EST ) broadcast description Moderator
4:00 am to 6:00 am CNN Newsroom Live (CNNI) Program takeover from CNN International changing
6:00 am to 8:00 am New Day Sunday Morning show Victor Blackwell & Christi Paul
8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Inside Politics Political weekly review John King
9 a.m. - 10 a.m. State of the Union with Jake Tapper Political Comments & Interviews Jake Tapper
10 a.m. - 11 a.m. Fareed Zakaria GPS World events Fareed Zakaria
11 a.m. - 12 p.m. Reliable Sources Media analysis Brian Stelter
12 p.m. - 1 p.m. State of the Union with Jake Tapper Repetition of the 9 a.m. broadcast Jake Tapper
1 p.m. - 2 p.m. Fareed Zakaria GPS Repetition of the 10 a.m. broadcast Fareed Zakaria
2 p.m. - 7 p.m. CNN Newsroom Current news broadcast changing
7 p.m. - 2 a.m. CNN Original Series or CNN Special Report Documentation and special editions changing
2:00 am to 4:00 am CNN Newsroom Live (CNNI) Program takeover from CNN International changing

Broadcast times may vary.

offices

CNN offices worldwide

CNN has offices around the world where news reports are researched and broadcast. The CNN center in Atlanta in the US state of Georgia is the headquarters of CNN and CNN international. There are also other offices in the USA, among others. a. in Washington DC, New York and Los Angeles.

CNN's largest office outside the US is in London, responsible for Europe , the Middle East and Africa . Other offices in this area include a. in Berlin, Paris, Moscow, Rome, Madrid, Istanbul, Jerusalem, Beirut, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Baghdad, Cairo, Lagos and Johannesburg.

The central broadcasting company for the Asian region (Asia Center) is located in Hong Kong. a. in Beijing, Mumbai, Tokyo, and Islamabad.

In November 2014, CNN announced that it would withdraw from Russia with the distribution of its program. CNN was already broadcasting from Russia in the early 1990s, when Soviet press controls had been relaxed under President Gorbachev . The station's program has not been broadcast terrestrially in Russia since 2015. The reason given was the tightening of Russian laws that regulate the ownership structure of foreign media companies. The Russian newspaper "Wedemosti" justifies the withdrawal, however, with a lack of a license for Russia. CNN correspondents continue to report from Russia.

Market position

Since it was founded, in addition to the national US channel, other pure news channels have emerged, such as Fox News Channel , MSNBC and its sister channel HLN . After CNN dominated the market for years, the station has been number two behind Fox News and ahead of MSNBC for some time. After years of constant loss of viewers, an increase in audience ratings was observed again in 2008.

Distribution channels

As the Cable News Network , CNN first started broadcasting on US cable networks. Soon, however, the program was also broadcast via various satellites in the USA. CNN International uses transponders from various satellites for Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania. In Europe the program is distributed via Astra 19.2 ° East .

Website

According to Alexa , the website cnn.com is ranked 18th most popular website in the United States and 76th most popular website on the Internet.

Offshoots and holdings

CNN Center, Atlanta

Since its inception, CNN has also acquired stakes in television channels in other countries and has also built new channels. In its own country, the station founded the branch CNN2 in 1982, which was later renamed CNN Headline News , and in 2008 finally renamed HLN . The financial channel CNNfn, founded in 1995, and the sports channel CNN Sports Illustrated (CNNSI) have since been discontinued . CNN / US programs can be received via broadband Internet connections through a payment system in the USA, and since 2007 CNN programs have also been available in HD quality (CNN HD).

The most famous offshoot is the English-language channel CNN International , which can be received by more than a billion people in 212 countries worldwide. This is also headquartered in Atlanta, but broadcasts large parts of its program from the offices in London and Hong Kong. The main station in America is also called CNN / US (or CNN Domestic ) to distinguish it.

In Germany, CNN was involved in the news channel n-tv until 2006 . Further offshoots in the respective national language exist z. B. in Turkey ( CNN Türk ), in Latin America ( CNN en Español ), in India (CNN-IBN), in Japan (CNNj) and in Chile (CNN Chile). From June 9, 1997 to the end of 2003, there was a 15-minute German program window on CNN that was broadcast three times a day ( CNN-D ). It was discontinued on January 1, 2004.

In July 2014, the US radio company Cumulus Media announced that it would end its cooperation with ABC Radio News and enter into a new partnership with CNN. Since 2015, CNN has been delivering international and national audio news content for the connected stations using Cumulus’s own feed service Westwood One . In addition, individual radio reports are offered as well as current content for the stations' homepages. The service is distributed without its own logo (“un branded ”), which enables the connected stations to incorporate the content into their own offer and to give it their own brand.

In addition to the television programs, CNN operates twelve websites in different languages, for example in Arabic , Korean and Japanese .

The English-language channel CNN Money Switzerland started in Switzerland in October 2017 . CNN Money was not owned by CNN but licensed to the brand by CNN. It was broadcast live daily from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., with a further four hours of programming recorded beforehand. In August 2020, CNN Money Switzerland was discontinued.

Controversy

American public confidence in the media fell in 2016 to the lowest ever recorded. According to Rasmussen's reports, CNN was the least trustworthy cable news network for American voters in 2017.

In the 2016 presidential campaign, longtime CNN employee Donna Brazile leaked Hillary Clinton's questions to the campaign team ahead of a CNN-hosted TV debate . After the emails were published by the WikiLeaks exposure platform, CNN announced the split from Brazile. CNN journalist Jake Tapper called this behavior "very, very worrying" and from a journalistic point of view "appalling".

In June 2017, a video posted on social media showed CNN reporter Becky Anderson directing and grouping a small group of Muslim protesters against Islamic terror behind a police line in London. This brought CNN the allegation to have staged the demonstration. CNN denied the charge of staging news; this is "nonsense".

Also in June 2017, the three CNN journalists Thomas Frank, Eric Lichtblau and Lex Harris had to leave the station after they published a false story on CNN.com about Trump adviser Anthony Scaramucci .

CNN also split from presenter Reza Aslan after he described Donald Trump as "a piece of shit" on Twitter.

US President Donald Trump repeatedly referred to CNN as "fake news" at press conferences, interviews and party events. In July 2017, he posted a video montage on Twitter that shows how, wrestling-style, he hits a man with his fist several times in the face - overlaid with a CNN logo. CNN managed to find out the identity of the video maker, who subsequently apologized to CNN. CNN.com said it was reserving the right to publish the name "should that change." Various voices criticized this as questionable and unethical.

In December 2017, CNN released a report intended to prove alleged illegal links between Donald Trump's campaign team and WikiLeaks and Moscow, respectively. However, after the Washington Post revealed that CNN had misrepresented key facts, the news channel had to take back its hoax. The New York Times and other commentators warned that the inaccurate reporting by CNN and other media outlets such as ABC, Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal would further erode trust in the media. The Washington Post criticized CNN for supplying Donald Trump with new ammunition for his fake news allegations. A Harvard Kennedy School study of media coverage of the first 100 days of Donald Trump's presidency found that 93 percent of all CNN reports carried negative content.

Critics accuse CNN Türk of having "come to terms" with the regime of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan . After the station broadcast a documentary about penguins during the violent crackdown by the police against the protests in Turkey in 2013 , the term “penguin media” established itself as a term for government-controlled media. Government critics changed CNN's slogan from "Be the first to know" to "Be the first to keep it a secret".

Web links

Commons : CNN  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

literature

Individual evidence

  1. CNN's 25th Anniversary Spiegel , accessed November 17, 2009.
  2. CNN First Broadcast with David Walker and Lois Hart - June 1, 1980. Retrieved May 16, 2011 .
  3. ^ This Day in History: June 1, 1980. CNN launches. ( Memento of February 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) In: History.com (English).
  4. CNN.com celebrates 20 years. In: CNN.com (English); James Stayner: Web 2.0 and the transformation of news and journalism. In: Andrew Chadwick, Philip N. Howard (Eds.): Routledge Handbook of Internet Politics. Routledge, Abingdon, New York 2009, pp. 201-214, here p. 208 ; Julie Moos: The top 5 news sites in the United States are… In: Poynter.org , April 21, 2011 (English); Kenneth Olmstead, Amy Mitchell, Tom Rosenstiel: Navigating News Online: The Top 25. In: Pew Research Center , May 9, 2011.
  5. ^ Mathias Müller von Blumencron: You milk the story to death . In: Der Spiegel . No. 21 , 1998 ( online interview with Ted Turner).
  6. Lou Dobbs, leaving CNN, cnn.com , accessed November 17, 2009.
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  15. ^ Claire Atkinson: Cumulus buys CNN news content for radio. In: New York Post. July 31, 2014, accessed February 19, 2017 .
  16. a b How much CNN is there in CNN Money Switzerland, Urs Gredig? On: Swiss radio and television from January 24, 2018.
  17. CNN Money Switzerland files for bankruptcy in cash on August 17, 2020.
  18. CNN Money starts with four moderators In: Bilanz from June 29, 2017.
  19. TV station in corona crisis - CNN Money Switzerland ceases operations. In: Swiss radio and television. August 17, 2020, accessed on August 17, 2020 .
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  24. ^ Fake news allegation against CNN. Staged demo images from taz.de, accessed on July 19, 2017.
  25. 'Fake news': Trump tweets glee as three CNN journalists resign over Russia story theguardian.com, accessed July 19, 2017.
  26. CNN host calls Trump 'a piece of s - t' after London attack washingtonexaminer.com, accessed July 17, 2017.
  27. Trump to CNN reporter: “You are fake news” welt.de, accessed on April 10, 2017.
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