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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 proprietors [[Doug Bleichner]] and [[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 [[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 launched at 5:00&nbsp;p.m. Easter Time on June 1, 2013. After an introduction by [[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 MeMore's (later [[MeMoreTV]] which merged with Fanmayer INC forming [[The Fanmayer Group]]) eventual acquisition of [[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>