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{{Short description|American news channel}}
{{About|the channel|other uses|CNN (disambiguation)}}
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{{Infobox television channel
| name = CNN
| logo = CNN Logo (2014).svg
| logo_size = 175px
| founder = {{Plainlist|
* [[Ted Turner]]
* [[Reese Schonfeld]]
}}
| launch_date = {{start date and age|1980|6|1}}
| owner = {{Plainlist|
* [[Warner Bros. Discovery]]
}}
| parent = CNN Worldwide
| picture_format = [[1080i]] ([[High-definition television|HDTV]]){{Break}}(downscaled to [[Letterboxing (filming)|letterbox]]ed [[480i]] for the [[Standard-definition television|SDTV]] feed)
| country = United States
| language = English
| area = {{Plainlist|
* United States
* Canada
* Brazil
* Japan
* India
* Caribbean islands
* Worldwide (via CNN International)
}}
| headquarters = [[Midtown, Atlanta]], Georgia, U.S.{{parabr}}[[New York City]], New York, U.S.
| key_people = {{Plainlist|
* [[Mark Thompson (media executive)|Sir Mark Thompson]] (Chairman and CEO)
* David Leavy (COO)
* Michael Bass (EVP of Programming, CNN-US)<ref name="CNN president Jeff Zucker resigns">{{cite news |last1=Barr |first1=Jeremy |last2=Izadi |first2=Elahe |last3=Ellison |first3=Sarah |last4=Farhi |first4=Paul |title=CNN president Jeff Zucker resigns, citing undisclosed relationship with colleague |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/02/02/cnn-president-jeff-zucker-announces-resignation-over-undisclosed-relationship-with-colleague/ |access-date=February 2, 2022 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=February 2, 2022 |archive-date=February 2, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220202161538/https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/02/02/cnn-president-jeff-zucker-announces-resignation-over-undisclosed-relationship-with-colleague/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* Brad Ferrer ([[Vice President|EVP]]/[[Chief Financial Officer|CFO]])
* [[Amy Entelis]] ([[Vice President|EVP]])<ref name="CNN president Jeff Zucker resigns"/>
* [[Ken Jautz]] (EVP, CNN-US and [[HLN (TV network)|HLN]])<ref name="CNN president Jeff Zucker resigns"/>
* [[Andrew Morse]] (EVP/Chief Digital Officer)
}}
| sister_channels = {{collapsible list|
* [[CNN Airport]]
* [[CNN Arabic]]
* [[CNN Brazil]]
* [[CNN Chile]]
* [[CNN en Español]]
* [[CNN Indonesia]]
* [[CNN International]]
* [[CNN-News18]]
* [[CNN Portugal]]
* [[CNN Türk]]
* [[HLN (TV network)|HLN]]
* [[CNN Prima News]]
* A2 CNN
* [[Antena 3 CNN]]
}}
| website = {{URL|https://cnn.com}}
| online_serv_1 = Online stream
| online_chan_1 = [https://edition.cnn.com/videos/live CNN Live] (pay-TV subscribers only)
| online_serv_2 = Affiliated Streaming Service
| online_chan_2 = [[Max_(streaming_service)|Max]]
| online_serv_3 = Service(s)
| online_chan_3 = [[DirecTV Stream]], [[Hulu + Live TV]], [[Sling TV]], [[YouTube TV]]
| online_serv_4 = 
| online_chan_4 = 
}}

'''Cable News Network''' ('''CNN''') is a multinational <!-- Please do not add characterizations of CNN as liberal or left-leaning to the lead sentence. This issue has already been [[Talk:CNN/Archive_6#Left-leaning_Liberal_Bias|discussed at length]] and your edits will be reverted. --> [[news]] organization operating, most notably, a [[website]] and a [[Television station|TV channel]] headquartered in [[Atlanta]]. Founded in 1980 by American [[media proprietor]] [[Ted Turner]] and [[Reese Schonfeld]] as a 24-hour [[United States cable news|cable news]] channel, and presently [[Media cross-ownership in the United States|owned]] by the [[Manhattan]]-based media conglomerate [[Warner Bros. Discovery]] (WBD),<ref>{{Cite web |title=Time Warner: Turner Broadcasting |url=http://www.timewarner.com/corp/businesses/detail/turner_broadcasting/index.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110122111404/http://www.timewarner.com/corp/businesses/detail/turner_broadcasting/index.html |archive-date=January 22, 2011}}</ref> CNN was the first television channel to provide [[24-hour news cycle|24-hour news coverage]] and the first all-news television channel in the [[United States]].<ref name="CNN20">{{cite news|url=http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2000/05/28/loc_kiesewetter.html|title=In 20 years, CNN has changed the way we view the news|date=May 28, 2000|newspaper=Cincinnati Enquirer|last=Kiesewetter|first=John|access-date=January 24, 2009|archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20171011224046/http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2000/05/28/loc_kiesewetter.html|archive-date=October 11, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Charles Bierbauer, CNN senior Washington correspondent, discusses his 19-year career at CNN. (May 8, 2000) |work=CNN |url=http://cnn.com/COMMUNITY/transcripts/2000/5/8/bierbauer/ |url-status=dead |access-date=October 12, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120929070034/http://www.cnn.com/COMMUNITY/transcripts/2000/5/8/bierbauer/ |archive-date=September 29, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=January 29, 2001 |title=Reese's Pieces: Mr. Schonfeld, Forgotten Founder of CNN, Is a Man of Many Projects |url=https://observer.com/2001/01/reeses-pieces-mr-schonfeld-forgotten-founder-of-cnn-is-a-man-of-many-projects/ |access-date=March 1, 2022 |website=Observer |language=en-US |archive-date=September 26, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200926162437/https://observer.com/2001/01/reeses-pieces-mr-schonfeld-forgotten-founder-of-cnn-is-a-man-of-many-projects/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Stelter |first=Brian |date=July 28, 2020 |title=Reese Schonfeld, CNN's founding president, has died at 88 |work=CNN |url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/28/media/reese-schonfeld-obituary/index.html |url-status=live |access-date=July 31, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200729142448/https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/28/media/reese-schonfeld-obituary/index.html |archive-date=July 29, 2020}}</ref><ref name="CNNtaipei">{{cite web |date=May 31, 2005 |title=CNN changed news – for better and worse |url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2005/05/31/2003257358 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150603070942/http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2005/05/31/2003257358 |archive-date=June 3, 2015 |access-date=January 24, 2009 |work=Taipei Times}}</ref>

As of December 2023, CNN had 68,974,000 television households as subscribers in the US. According to [[Nielsen Corporation|Nielsen]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://wrestlenomics.com/u-s-cable-network-households-universe-1990-2023-nielsen-data/|title=U.S. cable network households (universe), 1990 – 2023|website=wrestlenomics.com|date=May 14, 2024|access-date=July 28, 2019}}</ref> down from 80 million in March 2021.<ref>{{Cite web |title=CNN Worldwide Fact Sheet |url=https://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/cnn-fact-sheet/ |access-date=2023-03-15 |language=en-US |archive-date=March 25, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210325122213/https://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/cnn-fact-sheet/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> In June 2021, CNN ranked third in viewership among cable news networks, behind [[Fox News]] and [[MSNBC]], averaging 580,000 viewers throughout the day, down 49% from a year earlier, amid sharp declines in viewers across all cable news networks.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Johnson |first1=Ted |title=Fox News Tops June And Q2 Viewership, But Plunge In Ratings Continues Across All Major Cable News Networks |url=https://deadline.com/2021/06/cable-news-viewership-plunges-in-june-1234783434/ |work=[[Deadline Hollywood|Deadline]] |date=June 29, 2021 |access-date=July 6, 2021 |archive-date=July 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210707162029/https://deadline.com/2021/06/cable-news-viewership-plunges-in-june-1234783434/ |url-status=live }}</ref> While CNN ranked 14th among all basic cable networks in 2019,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Andreeva |first1=Nellie |last2=Johnson |first2=Ted |title=Cable Ratings 2019: Fox News Tops Total Viewers, ESPN Wins 18–49 Demo As Entertainment Networks Slide |url=https://deadline.com/2019/12/cable-ratings-2019-list-fox-news-total-viewers-espn-18-49-demo-1202817561/ |access-date=January 16, 2020 |publisher=[[Deadline Hollywood|Deadline]]|date=December 27, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200114141444/https://deadline.com/2019/12/cable-ratings-2019-list-fox-news-total-viewers-espn-18-49-demo-1202817561/ |archive-date=January 14, 2020 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Schneider |first1=Michael |title=Most-Watched Television Networks: Ranking 2019's Winners and Losers |url=https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/network-ratings-top-channels-fox-news-espn-cnn-cbs-nbc-abc-1203440870/ |access-date=January 16, 2020 |work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=December 26, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200106110035/https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/network-ratings-top-channels-fox-news-espn-cnn-cbs-nbc-abc-1203440870/ |archive-date=January 6, 2020 |url-status=live }}</ref> then jumped to 7th during a major surge for the three largest cable news networks (completing a rankings streak of Fox News at number 5 and [[MSNBC]] at number 6 for that year),<ref>{{Cite news |last=Schneider |first=Michael |title=Most-Watched Television Networks: Ranking 2020's Winners and Losers |date=December 28, 2020 |work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |url=https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/network-ratings-2020-top-channels-fox-news-cnn-msnbc-cbs-1234866801/ |access-date=May 2, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201228180921/https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/network-ratings-2020-top-channels-fox-news-cnn-msnbc-cbs-1234866801/ |archive-date=December 28, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref> it settled back to number 11 in 2021<ref>{{Cite web|last=Schneider|first=Michael|date=December 30, 2021|title=Most-Watched Television Networks: Ranking 2021's Winners and Losers|url=https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/network-ratings-2021-top-channels-1235143630/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220112203222/https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/network-ratings-2021-top-channels-1235143630/|archive-date=January 12, 2022|website=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]}}</ref> and had further declined to number 21 in 2022.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Schneider|first=Michael|date=December 29, 2022|title=Most-Watched Television Networks: Ranking 2022's Winners and Losers|url=https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/most-watched-channels-2022-tv-network-ratings-1235475170/|url-status=live|website=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|access-date=January 19, 2023|archive-date=January 18, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230118090730/https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/most-watched-channels-2022-tv-network-ratings-1235475170/}}</ref>

Globally, CNN programming has aired through [[CNN International]], seen by viewers in over 212 countries and territories.<ref>{{cite press release|url=http://www.timewarner.com/corp/newsroom/pr/0,20812,667801,00.html|title=CNN is Viewers Cable Network of Choice for Democratic and Republican National Convention Coverage|publisher=Time Warner|date=August 18, 2000|access-date=February 20, 2010}}{{Dead link|date=January 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Since May 2019, however, the American domestic version has absorbed international news coverage in order to reduce programming costs. The American version, sometimes referred to as CNN (US), is also available in Canada, and some islands in the Caribbean. CNN also licenses its brand and content to other channels, such as [[CNN-News18]] in India. In Japan it broadcasts [[CNNj]] which started in 2003, with simultaneous translation in Japanese.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cnnasiapacific.com/factsheets/partnersandjv/?catID=19|title=CNN Partners|work=CNN Asia Pacific|access-date=May 4, 2020|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120729154345/http://www.cnnasiapacific.com/factsheets/partnersandjv/?catID=19|archive-date=July 29, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>