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 CNN Philippines Network News CNN Philippines Network News, (titled as CNN Philippines Network News with Pia Hontiveros for its weekday broadcasts) or simply Network News was the first flagship evening newscast of CNN Philippines. It aired seven days a week at 6:00pm PST. The program's 60-minute weekday broadcast was anchored by the network's chief correspondent Pia Hontiveros and a 30-minute weekend edition was anchored by Mai Rodriguez. CNN Philippines Network News premiered on June 18, 2012 as Solar Network News and ended on March 26, 2017 after almost five years under different incarnations The newscast was first known as Solar