CNN Philippines Newsroom rest of its run. On February 15, 2016, the newscast expanded its airtime, aligning with its international counterpart. However, the expansion reformatted from a single 60-minute newscast to three 30-minute editions in its initial run. The 8am edition was first anchored by the late Amelyn Veloso, who formerly anchored "CNN Philippines Headline News" and was concurrently hosting "Serbisyo All Access". Claire Celdran replaced Rodriguez in the noontime edition while the latter became anchor of the network's weekend newscasts. The 9:00pm edition replaced "CNN Philippines Nightly News", anchored by its holdover, Mitzi Borromeo. The English-language noontime edition and the original broadcast
History of CNN (1980–2003) Checkout Channel, a customized channel made available to grocery stores which shut down in 1993. 1996 saw the debuts of two specialty news channels: CNNSI, a sports news channel created in partnership with co-owned magazine "Sports Illustrated", and CNNfn, a business news channel created as a competitor to CNBC (CNNSI shut down in 2002, while CNNfn shut down in December 2004; CNN continues to maintain a partnership with "Sports Illustrated" through CNNSI.com). CNN launched its website, CNN.com (initially an experiment known as "CNN Interactive"), on August 30, 1995, which grew to become one of the most popular news websites in