Jon Petrovich in St. Louis, Missouri. Petrovich was executive vice president for CNN's Headline News (now HLN) in Atlanta, Georgia. Ted Turner hired him to lead Headline News in the mid-1980s. He oversaw CNN Radio and was directly involved in business development and marketing for all CNN networks. In 1994, he funded the establishment of CNN.com, and helped create CNN Airport Network and CNN en Español. He is widely credited with launching CNN Radio Noticias, CNN NewsSource. While executive vice president of CNN Headline News, the network incorporated factoids into its on-air half-hour news wheel format. After his role at CNN, Petrovich
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