CNN Airport
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| Country | United States |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Available in select airports |
| Headquarters | Atlanta, Georgia,U.S. |
| Programming | |
| Language(s) | English |
| Picture format | 480i(SDTV) |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | CNN (WarnerMedia News & Sports) |
| Sister channels | CNN CNN-News18 CNN en Español CNN International HLN |
| History | |
| Launched | June 3, 1991[1] |
| Closed | March 31, 2021 |
| Former names | CNN Airport Network (1991–2010) |
| Links | |
| Website | edition |
CNN Airportwas an Americanout-of-hometelevision networkowned and operated byAT&T'sWarnerMediathroughCNN,hence its name. The service broadcast general news,weather,stock marketupdates, entertainment, and travel content to airports across the United States. The founding management was led byJon PetrovichandScott Weiss.Deborah Cooper was the inaugural vice president/general manager.
CNN Airport's 24-hour schedule consisted of roughly 16% live news, 19% live sports, 24% lifestyle, 24% travel, and 10% forlocal insertsfrom airports if they warrant.[2]
The network discontinued operations on March 31, 2021.
History[edit]
The network originally was test launched from June 3 to July 14, 1991, atDallas/Fort Worth International Airport,Hartsfield-Atlanta International AirportandO'Hare International Airport,[1]and officially debuted on January 20, 1992, as theCNN Airport Network.[3]
CNN Airport was available in 58 airports in the United States.[4]CNN would pay localairport authoritiesfor the exclusive rights to run its programming on monitors throughout their terminals.[5]
Its breakfast and early fringe schedule included news programming from CNN andHLN,broadcast on a 10-second delay. The network also aired air travelers-designed weather, business and travel segments.[5]CNN Airport broadcast 24/7, with around-the-clock technical and editorial staffing, including three of its own reporters. Due to the network's prominence in public waiting areas, the network had stricter content standards than the regular CNN; for instance, stories involving commercial aviation incidents and crashes did not appear on the network, and were overlaid with automated weather conditions. Stories that involved sexual content and graphic violence are similarly overlaid. The network'sdigital on-screen graphicswere designed larger than industry standards, to allow readability of fonts at a distance.[6]The network also carried sports coverage fromTurner Sportsproperties, along with other sports rights such as theNFLand theSuper Bowlfrom other networks which were contractually bound to only air on airport screens. Commercial breaks instead carried interstitials from other Turner and Time Warner properties, and the ability tobreak into programmingfor airport-wide advisory messages.[2]
In 2018, Republican Iowa congressmanSteve Kingaccused CNN Airport of having a monopoly on partisan grounds, proposing an unsuccessful amendment to theFAA Reauthorization Act of 2018to prohibit a single broadcaster from holding a monopoly over television programming screened at airport terminals.[5]Most American international airports and larger train stations also have shops managed byParadies Lagardèreor other vendors which license the names of other cable networks such asCNBCandFox News(along with CNN itself) to brand those shops, and likewise screen those channels on the televisions within their premises inexclusive of an airport's advertising and screen deals.
On January 12, 2021, CNN's presidentJeff Zuckerannounced that CNN Airport would cease operations on March 31; Zucker cited several factors and changes in consumer behavior, including the ubiquity ofstreaming videoonmobile devices,as having made the network's purpose outdated.[7]
References[edit]
- ^abTBS to begin testing The Airport Channel,The Boston Globe,May 12, 1991.
- ^ab"CNN Airport Network Media Kit"(PDF).CNN.
- ^"CNN Newssource".2001. Archived fromthe originalon March 2, 2001.RetrievedNovember 15,2017.
- ^"Participating Airports".Edition.cnn.RetrievedJune 10,2022.
- ^abcde Guzman, Dianne (April 26, 2018)."Congressman proposes government keep CNN off airport televisions".SFGATE.Archivedfrom the original on April 27, 2018.RetrievedMay 18,2021.
- ^"AirlineReporter".
At the airport, they might be sitting at a distance, so Airport Network makes sure that their font is larger and easily viewable from a distance.
- ^Steinberg, Brian (January 12, 2021)."CNN Grounds Its Long-Running Airport Network".Variety.RetrievedJanuary 12,2021.
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