United States cable news would merge with Time Warner in 1996) created a spin-off of CNN called CNN2, which was originally formatted to show the top news stories of the day on a 30-minute "wheel" schedule. The channel rebranded as CNN Headline News in 1983, before the network abandoned the CNN branding and changed its name to the orphaned initialism HLN in 2008, following a shift from news programming towards a mix of news during the day and discussion programs and documentary series at night that began two years earlier. Turner founded CNN International in 1985, with a straight focus on international news stories
Nick Watt (CNN reporter) 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 as a desk assistant and tape librarian and spent 15 years there covering news in Iraq, Afghanistan,