CNN CNN Cable News Network (CNN) is an American news-based pay television channel owned by Turner Broadcasting System, a division of AT&T's WarnerMedia. CNN was founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner as a 24-hour cable news channel. Upon its launch, 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 the Time Warner Center in New York City, and studios in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles. Its headquarters at the CNN Center in Atlanta is
CNN International standard-definition and high-definition feeds (the SD feed of CNN/US switched to a widescreen letterbox screen format on January 11, 2011). "World One" was dropped from CNN/U.S. just a few months later to allow the addition of an extra hour of "American Morning" which has been replaced with "Early Start". As of August 2014, following the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, a permanent simulcast of CNNI's block of "Newsroom" with Rosemary Church and Errol Barnett was added to the late-night lineup of CNN/U.S., serving as a lead-in to "Early Start". In late 2015, John Vause and anchor Isha Sesay began to anchor