Satellite News Channel on the air; most local cable systems replaced SNC with either CNN or, more commonly, CNN Headline News. For a brief time after SNC shut down, its theme music was used by fellow-Connecticut cable network ESPN. In 1996, ABC revealed plans to launch a 24-hour news channel, however discontinued them after Fox News Channel and MSNBC were announced. In 2004, ABC News returned to the 24-hour news market with ABC News Now. The channel began as a digital subchannel but was later moved to cable. However that channel like SNC received little cable and satellite carriage, only being available on
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,