Television news in the United States On Sundays it airs "Fox News Sunday", produced by its sister Fox News Channel. Fox does provide coverage of breaking news of major events such as presidential debates, primarily hosted by Fox News Channel anchor Shepard Smith. The advent of cable television in the United States led to the eventual birth of cable news. On June 1, 1980, Ted Turner launched CNN, the first 24-hour cable news operation, and sister channel Headline News followed in 1982. CNN gained reputation significantly with its 1991 coverage of the Gulf War. The success of CNN inspired many other 24-hour cable news stations. In
Nick Watt (CNN reporter) Bob Dylan, and Belle & Sebastian. He has been a correspondent on Good Morning America and Nightline. Nick Watt (CNN reporter) Nick Watt is a Los Angeles, California based reporter for CNN and was a news program producer and correspondent at ABC News for 20 years. He was also a travel show host for a season of "Watts World" on the Travel Channel. He previously worked for ABC News fo 20 years before joining CNN. He is Scottish. Watt won an Emmy Award for his reporting from Fallujah, Iraq in 2004. Watt worked at ABC’s London bureau beginning in 1997