CNN Checkout Channel 1993, Turner announced the discontinuation of the CNN Checkout Channel, taking a $16 million write down. Turner cited difficulties in making the service profitable as justification for the shutdown. A further expansion, which would have added "several thousand" locations to the network at a cost of $35 million, was aborted by the shutdown. Stores that wished to keep the televisions were offered a feed of CNN Headline News as a replacement. CNN Checkout Channel CNN Checkout Channel was a satellite television network operated by ActMedia and Turner Broadcasting System through its CNN and Turner Private Networks subsidiaries. The network was
William Headline bureau chief in Washington, D.C., filling a position that had been occupied by six different individuals in the three years before he was hired. As bureau chief, Headline oversaw the growth of CNN Washington bureau from 80 to 350 staff members. He remained as bureau chief until 1996, when CNN named him to serve as the vice president managing special projects and pool assignments. He served as the chairman of the Washington-based Radio and Television Correspondents' Association. Headline left CNN in 1998 and became the executive director of the Voter News Service, a consortium of television networks and newspapers that