CNN more than 900 affiliated local stations (which also receive news and features content via the video newswire service CNN Newsource), and several regional and foreign-language networks around the world. The channel's success made a bona-fide mogul of founder Ted Turner and set the stage for conglomerate Time Warner's eventual acquisition of the Turner Broadcasting System in 1996. A companion channel, CNN2, was launched on January 1, 1982 and featured a continuous 24-hour cycle of 30-minute news broadcasts. The channel, which later became known as CNN Headline News and is now known as simply HLN, eventually focused on live news coverage
CNN Philippines Network News On December 5, 2015, CNN Philippines senior correspondent Ina Andolong replaced Roanna Jamir as the interim Saturday anchor on Network News Weekend while Nicolette Henson-Hizon and Menchu Macapagal rotated as Sunday anchor. By January 2016, Andolong consolidated the weekend chair. As the Philippine version of "New Day", a morning television show on CNN/US launched on February 15, 2016, CNN Philippines newscasts updated their title cards with deep blue touch, similar in those newscasts in CNN International and revised their musical scoring. Claire Celdran replaced Mai Rodriguez to anchor the noontime edition of "CNN Philippines Newsroom", while Rodriguez took over the