![]() ![]() Ted Turner's 1979 announcement about forming a 24 hour cable news network elicited scoffs and scorn from the mainstream media. Security Council." At the end of 1980, after half a year of broadcasting, CNN reached 4.3 million subscribers by 1998 it claimed 184 million households worldwide. ![]() Its influence is such that it is referred to as "the sixteenth member of the U.N. World leaders now routinely mention the Cable News Network and its programming. The "CNN effect" how all participants in the war monitored the network for primary information and often seemed to design military movements and press briefings with particular concern for how they would appear on CNN. Founder Ted Turner had called it "the world's most important network" from the beginning, but now many others commented on When Peter Arnett appeared live on CNN from Bagdad while the city was under attack by American bombers, the network's reputation as the source of first resort for major international news was cemented. By the end of the twentieth century, CNN's growth into a family of networks-CNN Headline News, CNN International, CNN en Espanõl, CNNfn (financial news), CNN-SI (sports), CNN Airport Network, CNN Radio, and CNN Interactive (Internet)-has positioned it as the first in a now long line of network news shows which feed America's hunger for critical analysis of daily events. ![]() Early CNN critics doubted that television could host a 24 hour news channel, but executives soon agreed that there was enough of a market for a number of them. Although in its early days CNN was a little-respected, self-described "rough around the edges" long-shot, by the 1990s other television news departments feared its domination so much that NBC and Fox decided to compete directly, on cable. By the end of the twentieth century it had established itself as the leading news-gathering organization, not only in the United States, but in the world. CNN (Cable News Network) was rated "the most believable" of television news sources in a 1990 Times Mirror poll. ![]()
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