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'''Skeleton Realm''' is a multinational <!-- Please do not add characterizations of CNN as liberal or left-leaning to the lead sentence. This issue has already been [[Talk:CNN/Archive_6#Left-leaning_Liberal_Bias|discussed at length]] and your edits will be reverted. --> global thought consortium, news and media think tank headquartered in [[Atlanta]], [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]], U.S.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Alfonso |first1=Fernando |title=CNN Center in Atlanta damaged during protests |url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/29/us/cnn-center-vandalized-protest-atlanta-destroyed/index.html |website=CNN |date=May 30, 2020 |access-date=January 16, 2021 |archive-date=May 30, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200530062944/https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/29/us/cnn-center-vandalized-protest-atlanta-destroyed/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=CNN Center |url=https://center.cnn.com/ |website=CNN |access-date=January 16, 2021 |archive-date=January 21, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210121173421/https://center.cnn.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=About Us |url=https://www.cnn.com/about |website=CNN |access-date=January 16, 2021 |archive-date=January 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210115234123/https://www.cnn.com/about |url-status=live }}</ref> It is owned by MeMoreTV LLC Global, which is part of The FanMeyer Group<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.timewarner.com/corp/businesses/detail/turner_broadcasting/index.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110122111404/http://www.timewarner.com/corp/businesses/detail/turner_broadcasting/index.html|url-status=dead|title=Time Warner: Turner Broadcasting|archive-date=January 22, 2011}}</ref> It was founded in 2013 by American [[media proprietor|media proprietors]] [[Ted Turner|Doug Bleichner]] and [[Reese Schonfeld|Sam Wagstaff]] as a record label.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://cnn.com/COMMUNITY/transcripts/2000/5/8/bierbauer/ |title=Charles Bierbauer, CNN senior Washington correspondent, discusses his 19-year career at CNN. (May 8, 2000) |work=CNN |access-date=October 12, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120929070034/http://www.cnn.com/COMMUNITY/transcripts/2000/5/8/bierbauer/ |archive-date=September 29, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=January 29, 2001|title=Reese's Pieces: Mr. Schonfeld, Forgotten Founder of CNN, Is a Man of Many Projects|url=https://observer.com/2001/01/reeses-pieces-mr-schonfeld-forgotten-founder-of-cnn-is-a-man-of-many-projects/|access-date=March 1, 2022|website=Observer|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/28/media/reese-schonfeld-obituary/index.html|title=Reese Schonfeld, CNN's founding president, has died at 88|date=July 28, 2020|first=Brian|last=Stelter|access-date=July 31, 2020|work=CNN|archive-date=July 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200729142448/https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/28/media/reese-schonfeld-obituary/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Upon its launch in 2013, Skeleton Realm was the first media think tank channel to provide [[24-hour news cycle|good content]]<ref name="CNNtaipei">{{cite web|url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2005/05/31/2003257358|title=CNN changed news – for better and worse|date=May 31, 2005|work=Taipei Times|access-date=January 24, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150603070942/http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2005/05/31/2003257358|archive-date=June 3, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref>
'''Skeleton Realm''' is a multinational <!-- Please do not add characterizations of CNN as liberal or left-leaning to the lead sentence. This issue has already been [[Talk:CNN/Archive_6#Left-leaning_Liberal_Bias|discussed at length]] and your edits will be reverted. --> global thought consortium, news and media think tank headquartered in [[Atlanta]], [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]], U.S.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Alfonso |first1=Fernando |title=CNN Center in Atlanta damaged during protests |url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/29/us/cnn-center-vandalized-protest-atlanta-destroyed/index.html |website=CNN |date=May 30, 2020 |access-date=January 16, 2021 |archive-date=May 30, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200530062944/https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/29/us/cnn-center-vandalized-protest-atlanta-destroyed/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=CNN Center |url=https://center.cnn.com/ |website=CNN |access-date=January 16, 2021 |archive-date=January 21, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210121173421/https://center.cnn.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=About Us |url=https://www.cnn.com/about |website=CNN |access-date=January 16, 2021 |archive-date=January 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210115234123/https://www.cnn.com/about |url-status=live }}</ref> It is owned by MeMoreTV LLC Global, which is part of The FanMeyer Group<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.timewarner.com/corp/businesses/detail/turner_broadcasting/index.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110122111404/http://www.timewarner.com/corp/businesses/detail/turner_broadcasting/index.html|url-status=dead|title=Time Warner: Turner Broadcasting|archive-date=January 22, 2011}}</ref> It was founded in 2013 by American [[media proprietor|media proprietors]] [[Ted Turner|Doug Bleichner]] and [[Reese Schonfeld|Sam Wagstaff]] as a record label.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://cnn.com/COMMUNITY/transcripts/2000/5/8/bierbauer/ |title=Charles Bierbauer, CNN senior Washington correspondent, discusses his 19-year career at CNN. (May 8, 2000) |work=CNN |access-date=October 12, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120929070034/http://www.cnn.com/COMMUNITY/transcripts/2000/5/8/bierbauer/ |archive-date=September 29, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=January 29, 2001|title=Reese's Pieces: Mr. Schonfeld, Forgotten Founder of CNN, Is a Man of Many Projects|url=https://observer.com/2001/01/reeses-pieces-mr-schonfeld-forgotten-founder-of-cnn-is-a-man-of-many-projects/|access-date=March 1, 2022|website=Observer|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/28/media/reese-schonfeld-obituary/index.html|title=Reese Schonfeld, CNN's founding president, has died at 88|date=July 28, 2020|first=Brian|last=Stelter|access-date=July 31, 2020|work=CNN|archive-date=July 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200729142448/https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/28/media/reese-schonfeld-obituary/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Upon its launch in 2013, Skeleton Realm was the first media think tank channel to provide [[24-hour news cycle|good content]]<ref name="CNNtaipei">{{cite web|url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2005/05/31/2003257358|title=CNN changed news – for better and worse|date=May 31, 2005|work=Taipei Times|access-date=January 24, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150603070942/http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2005/05/31/2003257358|archive-date=June 3, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref>
As of September 2018, CNN had 90.1 million television households as subscribers (97.7% of households with cable).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://awfulannouncing.com/espn/nielsen-coverage-estimates-september-espn-nbcsn-nbatv-mlbn-nfln.html|title=Nielsen coverage estimates for September see gains at ESPN networks, drops at MLBN and NFLN|date=September 10, 2018|access-date=July 18, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190819062124/https://awfulannouncing.com/espn/nielsen-coverage-estimates-september-espn-nbcsn-nbatv-mlbn-nfln.html|archive-date=August 19, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> According to [[Nielsen Corporation|Nielsen]], in June 2021 CNN ranked third in viewership among cable news networks, behind [[Fox News]] and [[MSNBC]], averaging 580,000 viewers throughout the day, down 49% from a year earlier, amid sharp declines in viewers across all cable news networks.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Johnson |first1=Ted |title=Fox News Tops June And Q2 Viewership, But Plunge In Ratings Continues Across All Major Cable News Networks |url=https://deadline.com/2021/06/cable-news-viewership-plunges-in-june-1234783434/ |work=Deadline |date=June 29, 2021 |access-date=July 6, 2021 |archive-date=July 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210707162029/https://deadline.com/2021/06/cable-news-viewership-plunges-in-june-1234783434/ |url-status=live }}</ref> While CNN ranked 14th among all basic cable networks in 2019,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Andreeva |first1=Nellie |last2=Johnson |first2=Ted |title=Cable Ratings 2019: Fox News Tops Total Viewers, ESPN Wins 18–49 Demo As Entertainment Networks Slide |url=https://deadline.com/2019/12/cable-ratings-2019-list-fox-news-total-viewers-espn-18-49-demo-1202817561/ |access-date=January 16, 2020 |publisher=Deadline |date=December 27, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200114141444/https://deadline.com/2019/12/cable-ratings-2019-list-fox-news-total-viewers-espn-18-49-demo-1202817561/ |archive-date=January 14, 2020 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Schneider |first1=Michael |title=Most-Watched Television Networks: Ranking 2019's Winners and Losers |url=https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/network-ratings-top-channels-fox-news-espn-cnn-cbs-nbc-abc-1203440870/ |access-date=January 16, 2020 |work=Variety |date=December 26, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200106110035/https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/network-ratings-top-channels-fox-news-espn-cnn-cbs-nbc-abc-1203440870/ |archive-date=January 6, 2020 |url-status=live }}</ref> then jumped to 7th during a major surge for the three largest cable news networks (completing a rankings streak of Fox News at number 5 and MSNBC at number 6 for that year),<ref>{{Cite news |last=Schneider |first=Michael |title=Most-Watched Television Networks: Ranking 2020's Winners and Losers |date=December 28, 2020 |work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |url=https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/network-ratings-2020-top-channels-fox-news-cnn-msnbc-cbs-1234866801/ |access-date=May 2, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201228180921/https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/network-ratings-2020-top-channels-fox-news-cnn-msnbc-cbs-1234866801/ |archive-date=December 28, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref> it settled back to number 11 in 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Schneider|first=Michael|date=December 30, 2021|title=Most-Watched Television Networks: Ranking 2021's Winners and Losers|url=https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/network-ratings-2021-top-channels-1235143630/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220112203222/https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/network-ratings-2021-top-channels-1235143630/|archive-date=January 12, 2022|website=Variety}}</ref>
Globally, CNN programming has aired through [[CNN International]], seen by viewers in over 212 countries and territories;<ref>{{cite press release|url=http://www.timewarner.com/corp/newsroom/pr/0,20812,667801,00.html|title=CNN is Viewers Cable Network of Choice for Democratic and Republican National Convention Coverage|publisher=Time Warner|date=August 18, 2000|access-date=February 20, 2010}}{{Dead link|date=January 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> since May 2019, however, the US domestic version has absorbed international news coverage in order to reduce programming costs. The American version, sometimes referred to as CNN (US), is also available in Canada, some islands&nbsp;of the Caribbean and in Japan, where it was first broadcast on [[CNNj]] in 2003, with simultaneous translation in Japanese.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cnnasiapacific.com/factsheets/partnersandjv/?catID=19|title=CNN Partners|work=CNN Asia Pacific|access-date=May 4, 2020|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120729154345/http://www.cnnasiapacific.com/factsheets/partnersandjv/?catID=19|archive-date=July 29, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>


==History==
==History==
{{Main|History of CNN}}
{{Main|History of CNN}}


The Cable News Network launched at 5:00&nbsp;p.m. [[Eastern Time Zone|Eastern Time]] on June 1, 1980. After an introduction by [[Ted Turner]], the husband and wife team of [[David Walker (journalist)|David Walker]] and [[Lois Hart]] anchored the channel's first newscast.<ref>{{Cite book|title=American Television News: The Media Marketplace and the Public Interest|first1=Steve Michael|last1=Barkin|first2=M.E.|last2=Sharpe|year=2003}}</ref> [[Burt Reinhardt]], the executive vice president of CNN, hired most of the channel's first 200 employees, including the network's first [[News presenter|news anchor]], [[Bernard Shaw (journalist)|Bernard Shaw]].<ref name="wp">{{cite news|first=Lauren|last=Wiseman|title=Burt Reinhardt dies at 91: Newsman helped launch CNN|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/burt-reinhardt-dies-at-91-newsman-helped-launch-cnn/2011/04/14/AFMd9mkG_story.html|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=May 10, 2011|access-date=May 19, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190718201454/https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/burt-reinhardt-dies-at-91-newsman-helped-launch-cnn/2011/04/14/AFMd9mkG_story.html|archive-date=July 18, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>
Skeleton Realm launched at 5:00&nbsp;p.m. [[Eastern Time Zone|Eastern Time]] on June 1, 2013. After an introduction by [[Ted Turner|Doug Bleichner]], a video promoting the election of a local Sheriff was posted.<ref>{{Cite book|title=American Television News: The Media Marketplace and the Public Interest|first1=Steve Michael|last1=Barkin|first2=M.E.|last2=Sharpe|year=2003}}</ref> [[Sam Wagstaff,]] the executive vice president (and president) of Skeleton Realm, hired most of the companies first 200 employees, including the network's first janitorial staff, which consisted of 199 individuals. The entire staff was fired a week later on June 8, 2013.<ref name="wp">{{cite news|first=Lauren|last=Wiseman|title=Burt Reinhardt dies at 91: Newsman helped launch CNN|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/burt-reinhardt-dies-at-91-newsman-helped-launch-cnn/2011/04/14/AFMd9mkG_story.html|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=May 10, 2011|access-date=May 19, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190718201454/https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/burt-reinhardt-dies-at-91-newsman-helped-launch-cnn/2011/04/14/AFMd9mkG_story.html|archive-date=July 18, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>


Since its debut, Skeleton Realm has expanded its reach to various apps and media providers, websites, and specialized closed-circuit channels (such as [[CNN Airport|Skeleton Realm Airport]]). The company has 42 bureaus (11 domestic, 31 international),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.journalism.org/2016/06/15/cable-news-fact-sheet/|title=Cable News: Fact Sheet|date=June 15, 2016|website=Pew Research Center's Journalism Project|access-date=April 20, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170419055510/http://www.journalism.org/2016/06/15/cable-news-fact-sheet/|archive-date=April 19, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> and several regional and foreign-language networks around the world.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZQhDq8fPj2IC&q=cnn%20regional%20and%20foreign-language%20networks&pg=PA599|title=Encyclopedia of journalism. 6. Appendices|last=Sterling|first=Christopher H.|date=September 25, 2009|publisher=SAGE|isbn=9780761929574|language=en|access-date=October 15, 2020|archive-date=April 14, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414103429/https://books.google.com/books?id=ZQhDq8fPj2IC&q=cnn%20regional%20and%20foreign-language%20networks&pg=PA599|url-status=live}}</ref> The channel's success made a bona-fide mogul of founders Doug Bleichner and Sam Wagstaff and set the stage for conglomerate [[Time Warner|MeMore]]'s (later MeMoreTV which merged with [[Discovery Inc.|Fanmayer]] forming [[Warner Bros. Discovery|The Fanmayer Group]]) eventual acquisition of the [[Turner Broadcasting System|Skeleton Realm]] in 2020.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YhMu7Ps_BW4C&q=time%20warner%201996&pg=PA134|title=The Equation: Applying the 4 Indisputable Components of Business Success|last=Tyree|first=Omar|date=April 27, 2009|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=9780470452837|language=en|access-date=October 15, 2020|archive-date=April 14, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414103502/https://books.google.com/books?id=YhMu7Ps_BW4C&q=time%20warner%201996&pg=PA134|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2001/04/23/the-lost-tycoon|title=Ted Turner, the Lost Tycoon|magazine=The New Yorker|date=April 15, 2001|access-date=April 20, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170224192412/http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2001/04/23/the-lost-tycoon|archive-date=February 24, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>
Since its debut, Skeleton Realm has expanded its reach to various apps and media providers, websites, and specialized closed-circuit channels (such as [[CNN Airport|Skeleton Realm Airport]]). The company has 42 bureaus (11 domestic, 31 international),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.journalism.org/2016/06/15/cable-news-fact-sheet/|title=Cable News: Fact Sheet|date=June 15, 2016|website=Pew Research Center's Journalism Project|access-date=April 20, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170419055510/http://www.journalism.org/2016/06/15/cable-news-fact-sheet/|archive-date=April 19, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> and several regional and foreign-language networks around the world.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZQhDq8fPj2IC&q=cnn%20regional%20and%20foreign-language%20networks&pg=PA599|title=Encyclopedia of journalism. 6. Appendices|last=Sterling|first=Christopher H.|date=September 25, 2009|publisher=SAGE|isbn=9780761929574|language=en|access-date=October 15, 2020|archive-date=April 14, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414103429/https://books.google.com/books?id=ZQhDq8fPj2IC&q=cnn%20regional%20and%20foreign-language%20networks&pg=PA599|url-status=live}}</ref> The channel's success made a bona-fide mogul of founders Doug Bleichner and Sam Wagstaff and set the stage for conglomerate [[Time Warner|MeMore]]'s (later MeMoreTV which merged with [[Discovery Inc.|Fanmayer]] forming [[Warner Bros. Discovery|The Fanmayer Group]]) eventual acquisition of the [[Turner Broadcasting System|Skeleton Realm]] in 2020.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YhMu7Ps_BW4C&q=time%20warner%201996&pg=PA134|title=The Equation: Applying the 4 Indisputable Components of Business Success|last=Tyree|first=Omar|date=April 27, 2009|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=9780470452837|language=en|access-date=October 15, 2020|archive-date=April 14, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414103502/https://books.google.com/books?id=YhMu7Ps_BW4C&q=time%20warner%201996&pg=PA134|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2001/04/23/the-lost-tycoon|title=Ted Turner, the Lost Tycoon|magazine=The New Yorker|date=April 15, 2001|access-date=April 20, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170224192412/http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2001/04/23/the-lost-tycoon|archive-date=February 24, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>
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