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The '''Cable News Network''' ('''CNN''') 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.multinational --> [[cable news]] channel 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> Founded in 1980 by American [[media proprietor]] [[Ted Turner]] and [[Reese Schonfeld]] as a 24-hour [[United States cable news|cable news]] channel, and presently owned by the [[Manhattan]]-based media conglomerate [[Warner Bros. Discovery]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Time Warner: Turner Broadcasting |url=http://www.timewarner.com/corp/businesses/detail/turner_broadcasting/index.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110122111404/http://www.timewarner.com/corp/businesses/detail/turner_broadcasting/index.html |archive-date=January 22, 2011}}</ref> CNN was the first television channel to provide [[24-hour news cycle|24-hour news coverage]] and the first all-news television channel in the United States.<ref name="CNN20">{{cite news|url=http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2000/05/28/loc_kiesewetter.html|title=In 20 years, CNN has changed the way we view the news|date=May 28, 2000|newspaper=Cincinnati Enquirer|last=Kiesewetter|first=John|access-date=January 24, 2009|archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20171011224046/http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2000/05/28/loc_kiesewetter.html|archive-date=October 11, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Charles Bierbauer, CNN senior Washington correspondent, discusses his 19-year career at CNN. (May 8, 2000) |work=CNN |url=http://cnn.com/COMMUNITY/transcripts/2000/5/8/bierbauer/ |url-status=dead |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}}</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 |last=Stelter |first=Brian |date=July 28, 2020 |title=Reese Schonfeld, CNN's founding president, has died at 88 |work=CNN |url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/28/media/reese-schonfeld-obituary/index.html |url-status=live |access-date=July 31, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200729142448/https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/28/media/reese-schonfeld-obituary/index.html |archive-date=July 29, 2020}}</ref><ref name="CNNtaipei">{{cite web |date=May 31, 2005 |title=CNN changed news – for better and worse |url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2005/05/31/2003257358 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150603070942/http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2005/05/31/2003257358 |archive-date=June 3, 2015 |access-date=January 24, 2009 |work=Taipei Times}}</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>{{Needs update|date=November 2022}} 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>
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