History
Over 24 years ago, CNN invented worldwide real-time reporting and changed the face of news, especially TV news, redefining what connection to news means.
Always on the lookout for the next frontier and the next opportunity to grow, in 1980, media legend Ted Turner launched Cable News Network, the world’s first 24-hour news network. In subsequent years, viewers came to value CNN’s unique offer of 24/7, in-depth, instantaneous connection to the news — a relationship that wasn’t limited to an early-evening broadcast or to quick updates on breaking news. As CNN grew, it gained the respect of journalists and consumers alike, with its landmark coverage of the Tiananmen Square riots, the fall of the Berlin Wall, presidential elections, and the first and second Gulf Wars. Along the way, CNN won Peabody Awards, Emmys, and every other major television news award.
Today, CNN’s connection with audiences is deeper and more powerful than ever, touching more people in more places through more distribution platforms than any other news organization. CNN-branded news and information content, distributed in- and out-of-home, on broadcast and unwired networks, radio, Web sites and wireless distribution platforms, has the potential to reach 1.7 billion people daily around the world.8
