Burt Reinhardt, who as the detail-minded, taciturn television executive behind his more extroverted boss, Ted Turner, played a crucial role in the formative years of CNN and the 24-hour cable news cycle, died on Tuesday at his home in Marietta, Ga. He was 91. The cause was complications from a series of strokes, his daughter, Cheryl Reinhardt,...
CNN has been the big ratings gainer among the cable news networks during the extensive coverage of events in Japan and Libya in the last two weeks, and that success has come mostly at the expense of MSNBC, which has fallen into third place almost across the board because of CNN's surge. The disparity has been most noticeable during the last two...
ATLANTA NEW programs, new talent, new sets, a fancy new studio in Miami and a new logo featuring an outsize, stylized tilde. In an effort to broaden its appeal to Hispanic viewers in the United States, CNN en Español, the Spanish-language branch of the cable news giant based here, is undergoing a fundamental reconfiguration of both its content and...
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CNN (eller Cable News Network) er en 24 timers tv-kanal udelukkende med nyheder. Kanalen blev stiftet af Ted Turner og er i dag en del af medie koncernen Time Warner.
CNN blev lanceret d. 1. juni 1980 og har siden udvidet, så der i dag er 6 forskellige CNN kanaler. Bl.a. den originale amerikanske kanal, en international version og en lufthavns version. Derudover er 2 kanaler lukket igen i løbet af de seneste år.(CNNfn og CNNSI).
De første 10 år af kanalens levetid foregik i forholdsvis stilhed. Det var først under golfkrigen 1991 at man for alvor hørte noget til CNN fordi de som de eneste havde en korrespondent i Irak.
I dag når CNN ud til 1,5 mia. mennesker over hele kloden og kanalens koncept er blevet kopieret af en lang række kanaler. Bl.a. Sky News, Fox News, BBC World, al-Jazeera og danske TV 2 NEWS . Fold ud