CNN

Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news organization, today most notably operating multiple social media accounts, a website and a TV channel. It is headquartered in Atlanta and was founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel. It is presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States. As of December 2023, CNN had 68,974,000 television households as subscribers in the United States. According to Nielsen, down from 80 million in March 2021. 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. While CNN ranked 14th among all basic cable networks in 2019, 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), it settled back to number 11 in 2021 and had further declined to number 21 in 2022. Globally, CNN programming has aired through CNN International, seen by viewers in over 212 countries and territories. 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. CNN has often been subjected to criticism from conservative media and other organizations for having a perceived left-wing bias. However, as of July 2025, Allsides and Ad Fontes, two of the most prominent bias checkers, both rate CNN as having only a mild lean or slant towards liberal viewpoints. CNN has also recently been accused of promoting pro-Israeli content in the Israel-Palestine War through restrictive editorial policies and the dehumanization of Palestinians, as well as promoting denial of the Gaza genocide.

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