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CNNfn To Fold
IMDb.com ^ | 10-29-04

Posted on 10/29/2004 8:51:59 PM PDT by Paul Atreides

Time Warner's cable news operations took a new hit Wednesday as CNN President Jim Walton announced that CNNfn, the company's financial-news network, will shut down in mid-December after more than nine years on the air. Walton said that he was pulling the plug on the outlet in order to help shore up CNN and CNN Headline News. He also indicated that a continuing problem had been finding outlets for the network which is only available in some 30 million homes, half of which nearly half are served by DirecTV. Walton indicated that CNN International may take the place of CNNfn on the cable dial. Although about 100 employees of CNNfn are affected by the decision, Walton said in a staff memo that many of them "will assume other roles within CNN" and that the company will relocate others with the financial news website that it produces with Time Inc.'s Money magazine.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cnnfn

1 posted on 10/29/2004 8:51:59 PM PDT by Paul Atreides
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To: Paul Atreides

Headline news is next!!!

Then CNN itself.

Rush is right, the revolution has begun!

Bye Bye MSM!!!


2 posted on 10/29/2004 8:54:37 PM PDT by bear11
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To: Paul Atreides

Good!


3 posted on 10/29/2004 8:55:01 PM PDT by sport
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To: Paul Atreides

Already posted yesterday, but some people probably didn't see it. So thanks for reposting.


4 posted on 10/29/2004 8:56:35 PM PDT by graycamel
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To: sport

Rot you left-slanted losers!! People obviously don't go to communists for economic/financial advice.


5 posted on 10/29/2004 8:56:46 PM PDT by bust (A biased media is the biggest threat to our democracy...)
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To: Paul Atreides

Wonderful news. Before long, the only place Christiane Amanpour will be able to get a job will be on the Home Shopping Network.


7 posted on 10/29/2004 8:57:08 PM PDT by speedy
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I could never get a decent feel for any severe bias for cnnfn; they seemed to be advocates of the free market, but also played up any bad economic news. quite the schizophrenics, as far as I could tell.

mind you, "severe" takes the bar pretty far up there.

8 posted on 10/29/2004 8:57:42 PM PDT by smonk
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To: Paul Atreides

I have DirecTV. CNNfn and CNN International are already the same station on my dial. I get both logo's when I turn to it. Hm.


9 posted on 10/29/2004 8:58:36 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Paul Atreides

I have DirecTV. CNNfn and CNN International are already the same station on my dial. I get both logo's when I turn to it. Hm.


10 posted on 10/29/2004 8:59:24 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: bust

Amen! Preach on Brother!


11 posted on 10/29/2004 9:03:15 PM PDT by sport
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To: Paul Atreides
In related news, production of the Lou Dobbs show has been outsourced to Bangladore. :)
12 posted on 10/29/2004 9:03:40 PM PDT by A Balrog of Morgoth (With fire, sword, and stinging whip I drive the Rats in terror before me.)
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