CNN Airport
WarnerMedia News & Sports) | |
Sister channels | CNN CNN-News18 CNN en Español CNN International HLN |
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History | |
Launched | June 3, 1991[1] |
Closed | March 31, 2021 |
Former names | CNN Airport Network (1991–2010) |
Links | |
Website | edition |
CNN Airport was an American
CNN Airport's 24-hour schedule consisted of roughly 16% live news, 19% live sports, 24% lifestyle, 24% travel, and 10% for local inserts from airports if they warrant.[2]
The network discontinued operations on March 31, 2021.
History
The network originally was test launched from June 3 to July 14, 1991, at
CNN Airport was available in 58 airports in the United States.[4] CNN would pay local airport authorities for the exclusive rights to run its programming on monitors throughout their terminals.[5]
Its breakfast and early fringe schedule included news programming from CNN and
In 2018, Republican Iowa congressman Steve King accused CNN Airport of having a monopoly on partisan grounds, proposing an unsuccessful amendment to the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018 to 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 by Paradies Lagardère or other vendors which license the names of other cable networks such as CNBC and Fox 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 president
References
- ^ a b TBS to begin testing The Airport Channel, The Boston Globe, May 12, 1991.
- ^ a b "CNN Airport Network Media Kit" (PDF). CNN.
- ^ "CNN Newssource". 2001. Archived from the original on March 2, 2001. Retrieved November 15, 2017.
- ^ "Participating Airports". Edition.cnn.com. Retrieved June 10, 2022.
- ^ a b c de Guzman, Dianne (April 26, 2018). "Congressman proposes government keep CNN off airport televisions". SFGATE. Archived from the original on April 27, 2018. Retrieved May 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. Retrieved January 12, 2021.