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
CNN Philippines programs like "CNN Newsroom", "CNN Today", "International Desk", "CNN Money" and "CNN Money View", with bluer hue, with exceptions to their lifestyle programming, while newer bumpers for general segments and current affairs shows followed suit. The channel also changed their theme music for their newscasts and bumpers and added new programs, led by the Philippine edition of New Day. "Nightly News" was axed in favor of an expanded "Newsroom", making "CNN Philippines Network News" the sole lineal brand holdover from its "Solar" tenure. Personalities from other networks such as Pinky Webb joined CNN Philippines, where she is the main anchor