FREEP Airports that show CNN on monitors...Switch to FOX!!

[Gopher Broke]

FREEPERs....When I fly through Atlanta, I get tired of the indoctrination from CNN (Clinton News Network) on the monitors in the boarding areas.

Let's ask airports to switch those monitors to FOX NEWS!!

I just sent a note to the Atlanta Airport...does anyone have other email or contact info for other airports??

For Atlanta:

karen.ellis@atlanta-airport.com

[Phantom Lord]

I am pretty sure that many airports around the country have a contract with CNN to show CNN or Headline News. I have seen it on in every airport I have been in the past couple years.

[newcats]

Especially in Atlanta....this has no chance of working since Atlanta is home for CNN. But it it makes you feel better, good luck.

[Mr. Bird]

I believe it is actually a separate feed, CNN Airport. It was one of CNN's better business ideas. I think they modify the broadcast with more frequent weather and travel information. My guess is CNN supplies the televisions as well. Tough to convince the airports to switch....

[Wingy]

...this has no chance of working...

The airlines would nix this plan. If Fox were on, how would you get people to board the planes?

Be well...

[Congressman Billybob]

Great idea. Add to that a guerrila war. Like most FReepers I travel by air frequently. If I had in hand some bumber stickers that said:

CNN Lies! Choose FOX!

I would be willing to put them on the face of a few of those overhead monitors.

Congressman Billybob

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[Mr. Bird]

From CNN's news group page:

"CNN Airport Network is the only live, satellite-delivered television service broadcast to waiting air travelers in over 1,200 gates throughout 28 U.S. airports. The CNN Airport Network is the only fully owned, branded Turner Private Network. "

[Phantom Lord]

Here is another one of CNNs ideas. I am not sure if you have them in your area, but around here (Raleigh NC area) we have unmanned gas stations. Pay at the pump only. No humans in site. Well, next to the pumps are small video screens that play one thing and one thing only 24/7. CNN Headline News.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Very Big Brother of CNN, doncha think?

[Arm_Bears]

I think we need a big-government solution to this, such as DOT-mandated CNN-free zones in all airports (sarcasm off).

[Mr. Bird]

Wow. Never heard of such a thing. Generally, I think it's pretty cool. Unfortunately, it's CNN.

[Phantom Lord]

7 out of 10 times I pay at the pump when I go to a gas station. So these unmanned ones fit my needs just fine. If I need a drink, smokes, snack, etc. I will go to a regular station. And your not at the pump long enough to really pay attention to the Headline News playing next to the pump.

I have no idea why CNN set this up. With the amount of time between commercials and the amount of time it takes to fill a tank, I suspect very few commercials are viewed and little attention paid to the monitors.

[toupsie]

The monitors are owned and operated by AOL Time/Warner and the airports are under contract to maintain those televisions. In fact the only signal those sets will receive is the special CNN Airport boradcast. I work for a company that does the same thing for college dorms, unions, gyms and cafeterias.

[LibertyGirl77]

Unmanned gas stations? That sounds like an incendiary disaster waiting to happen.

[July 4th]

Yup, it's a separate channel. However, it's quite possibly the most mind-numbing behind-the-curve channel on TV. They update it rarely, and run the same features the for the entire day. Forget about sports scores too. When I was in an airport last year, I wanted updates on the NCAA playoffs. I'll never forget that it took them 4 hours to update the halftime scores.

I always thought they should just run the regular channel, and have the distributor insert more appropriate commercials for travelers, and an extra weather update once in a while.

[mhking]

The Airport Network (at least when I worked over at CNN a couple of years ago) is broadcast from a studio about the size of a broom closet, and is interspersed with featurettes from CNN, HN, fn & International. They update about the headline segments about every four hours, although Airport Network usually does feed through breaking news from CNN (most notable exceptions are plane crashes).

The monitors in the airports are hardwired to a satellite system, all of which are owned/operated by AOL/TW. CNN/Turner came up with the private network concept in the late 80's-early 90's and tried a number of venues (doctor's offices, turnpike rest areas/restaurants, shopping centers, college campuses) before settling on airports. Supposedly, they were going to expand the concept, although AOL/TW's cash crunch has put the kabosh on that for now.

The one thing that they did do that was smart (at least from a business standpoint) was to tie the airports up in knots over the contracts for Airport Network, which is part of why FNC, nor anyone else can get into the game. The best we can do is to strongly suggest that the restaurants/bars that have TV's in the airports tune to FNC.

[white trash redneck]

I concur with your low opinion of CNN. However, the last time I watched cable (My wife cancelled our cable after the impeachment. She said that she got tired of watching me get angry and yell at the TV set.), Fox didn't have a program like CNN Headline News. Second, GOOD LUCK getting the Atlanta airport to drop CNN! That will be the LAST airport to do so (CNN is based in Atlanta, Atlanta has an assertive black city government, etc.). Atlanta is smack in the belly of the beast.