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  CNNfn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
CNNfn was a U.S. cable television news network operated by Time Warner from December 29, 1995 to December 15, 2004.
CNNfn claimed the joystick operator was a computer trained worker, not a camera operator, To make this happen, CNNfn worked closely with Avid Systems in creating some of their own first generation broadcasting solutions.
CNNfn was working closely with Netscape by also helping the write portions of their software which was incorporated into their 2.x product line.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/CNNfn   (1020 words)

  
 CNN to shut down its CNNfn network - The Boston Globe
CNNfn is available in only about 30 million of the nation's 110 million homes with televisions.
CNNfn turned a profit last year for the first time, Walton said, but the distribution growth predicted with digital cable has been slower than anticipated.
CNNfn is part of Time Warner Inc., while CNBC is owned by General Electic Co.
www.boston.com /business/globe/articles/2004/10/29/cnn_to_shut_down_its_cnnfn_network   (372 words)

  
 Variety.com - Net financial drain
Walton said 60 CNNfn employees are being eliminated but noted that many of those staffers are being encouraged to apply for 100 new jobs posted Thursday across other CNN divisions.
CNNfn was launched during the height of the dot-com boom, as was the Peacock's CNBC.
CNNfn doesn't reach enough households to be counted in the ratings by Nielsen Media Research, while CNBC's viewership has continued to erode.
www.variety.com /article/VR1117912650.html?categoryid=14&cs=1   (697 words)

  
 CNNfn to add e-commerce | CNET News.com
CNNfn today announced plans to launch a retail channel on its business news and information Web site, furthering its push to become a one-stop shop for its professional user base.
Since CNNfn visitors on average are 46 years old, male, and highly educated with an average yearly income of $87,200, the company said its strategy was to give this community of buyers a convenient service to purchase goods.
CNNfn declined to disclose the financial terms of the deal.
news.com.com /2100-1023-214566.html   (439 words)

  
 CNN - Studio Tour: CNNfn
This is the source of CNNfn's 14 hours of live programs each weekday that provide a wealth of business, market, consumer and personal finance information in an entertaining and informative manner.
CNNfn's signal is sent from here to Atlanta, where it is put on a satellite and then downlinked by cable and satellite systems - all in less than one second.
When CNN Financial News launched CNNfn in December 1995, it was the first network to launch on television and the Web.
edition.cnn.com /StudioTour/index8.html   (431 words)

  
 About Us
In early March 2003, CNNfn (Financial Network) produced a story on how government contractors, specifically the DoD, was hiring job seekers even though most other employers were still in a hiring freeze.
The interview aired on CNNfn at 5:30pm EST on March 19th, 2003 to millions of viewers worldwide.
Well, according to the Brookings Institution, there are going to be about 20,000 government contractors working on this military effort in the Middle East, and that's about one civilian for every ten or fifteen people in the military, and that's up significantly from 1991.
www.clearancejobs.com /index.php?action=cnn_interview   (535 words)

  
 CNN shutting down struggling CNNfn - U.S. Business - MSNBC.com
In a memo to his staff, CNN chief executive Jim Walton said the move should not be seen as a statement on CNN’s financial health.
Besides CNBC, CNNfn has also competed with Bloomberg TV, which airs some of its financial news on the USA network in the morning hours.
CNNfn is part of Time Warner Inc., while CNBC is owned by General Electric Co. (MSNBC is a joint venture of Microsoft and NBC, which is a GE company.)
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6354337   (550 words)

  
 FOXNews.com - CNN Pulls Plug on Financial Network After Nine Years - Business And Money | Business News | Financial News
NEW YORK — CNNfn (search), the financial news cable network owned by Time Warner Inc. (TWX), Thursday said it will cease operating by mid-December, giving up its attempt to compete with CNBC (search) after nine years.
CNNfn is distributed in about 30 million of 100 million U.S. homes.
CNNfn retooled its focus in 2003 to appeal to individual investors, ceding the role of breaking business news to CNBC.
www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,136950,00.html   (563 words)

  
 CNNfn makeover marking time: change to CNN money stalled until second quarter Cable World - Find Articles
CNNfn, which has 19 million subscribers, was designated to be one of the beneficiaries of the synergy resulting from the merger of AOL and Time Warner.
CNNfn's morning show, anchored by Jack Cafferty, is called CNN Money Morning.
The show, which replaced Ahead of the Curve, was launched Sept. 10 as a simulcast hour on CNN and CNNfn with a second hour on CNNfn alone.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0DIZ/is_46_13/ai_80300825   (678 words)

  
 SUN AND CNNFN.COM ANNOUNCE FREE INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO TRACKING SERVICE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The CNNfn Investment Tracker is built using Sun Microsystems' Java cross platform programming language and Marimba's Castanet distribution technology, and, unlike other marketbasket tools, is completely confidential.
CNNfn's Investment Tracker features unique clip and news sort functionality that continually retrieves relevant articles mirroring the individual user's portfolio.
The site is a companion to CNNfn, the financial network, which was the first network to launch simultaneously on television and the Web.
www.sun.com /smi/Press/sunflash/1998-06/sunflash.980624.1.xml   (761 words)

  
 mediabistro.com: TVNewser
According to Newsday, "Karim's attorney, Dino Lombardi, said Karim was only 'exercising his right of vigorous free speech on a public controversy' when he approached Zahn and her sons, 7 and 11...
CNNfn staffers gathered for a final farewell on the set this afternoon.
TVNewser asked several CNNfn employees to reflect on their experiences at the network, and their comments will be posted throughout the day.
www.mediabistro.com /tvnewser/archive/2004_12_15_archive.asp   (1348 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - CNNfn financial network shutting down after 9 years   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
CNN also said it is planning changes for its Headline News offshoot, offering prime-time programming instead of a constantly repeating 30-minute newscast.
Management turmoil didn't help: CNNfn's biggest star, Lou Dobbs, left in 1999 and then returned in 2001.
CNNfn also announced in 2001 that it was changing the network's name to CNN Money, but the idea was dropped after a management change.
www.usatoday.com /life/television/news/2004-10-28-cnnfn_x.htm   (302 words)

  
 Showtime strengthens exclusive financial news coverage with CNNfn | Showtime
Explaining the decision to switch its U.S. based financial news programming to CNNfn, Showtime President Peter Einstein said it was in direct response to viewer demand.
It is the first time that CNNfn is available to television viewers in the region.
"CNNfn complements the first class coverage of European financial news from Bloomberg and provides essential real-time data and reports from the U.S markets for Middle East investors," said Einstein.
www.ameinfo.com /1050.html   (770 words)

  
 PCQuote.com Launches Strategic Business Partnership with CNNfn
Under a limited exclusive licensing agreement, PCQuote.com will provide CNNfn's award-winning original financial news to users of its popular financial content website, http://www.pcquote.com.
About CNNfn CNNfn.com, which averages more than 1 billion page views a year, is the Internet's leading source for business news, financial intelligence and free business services.
CNNfn.com is the companion to CNNfn, the first network to launch on television and the Web.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/11-17-1999/0001078524&EDATE=   (495 words)

  
 CNNfn targets prime - 6/26/2000 - Broadcasting & Cable
CNNfn may just be the tortoise in the race to own business news.
First, CNNfn gains 60 minutes of advertising time by adding the six-hour block, which is midnight to 6 a.m.
CNNfn still shares a channel in the finance-frenetic Manhattan market with a Madison Square Garden channel, a local network listed in the city's version of TV Guide, while CNNfn is not.
www.broadcastingcable.com /article/CA16882.html?display=CABLE   (1007 words)

  
 Why CNNfn Failed - 11/1/2004 - Broadcasting & Cable
CNNfn, a digital channel, decided to stake out the blandest part of the financial-news game, the personal-finance, "news you can use" end.
CNN Group President Jim Walton contends that CNNfn is actually making money, turning a profit for the first time in its nine-year life.
CNNfn was never big enough to make that magic elixir work.
broadcastingcable.com /article/CA476557.html?verticalid=311&...   (981 words)

  
 Growing CNNfn Adds Three Live Shows - 6/12/2000 - Multichannel News
The expansion in hours-something former CNNfn chief Lou Dobbs had long lobbied for-will increase the financial network's weekday schedule to 24 hours per day from its current 18 hours.
In April, CNNfn president Shelby Coffey announced that the network would finally go to 24 hours in June in order to better serve the needs of its West Coast viewers, to enhance its coverage of global business news and so that its content will be more viable for digital applications.
The remainder of CNNfn's overnight schedule will be filled in with repeats of programs aired earlier in the day by the network, such as Digital Jam, Moneyline News Hour and Entrepreneurs Only.
www.multichannel.com /article/CA18719.html?display=   (482 words)

  
 DRILLING DOWN/FINANCIAL NEWS CHANNELS; A Makeover For CNNfn - New York Times
AOL Time Warner recently said it would change the name of it's struggling financial cable news network, CNNfn, to CNN Money and see to it that the network became available on more cable systems.
CNNfn lags far behind the financial news leader on cable, General Electric's CNBC, in terms of subscribers who recieve the channel.
Meanwhile, Bloomberg Television, pay television's other financial news network, is closing in on CNNfn.
query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=940CE3DF1131F931A25751C0A9679C8B63   (89 words)

  
 NCD - The Disabilities Act: Supreme Court To Hear Discrimination Cases, CNNfn - January 13, 2004
Gerri Willis, CNNfn Anchor, The Flipside: Today the Supreme Court takes up the issue of state's rights versus the rights of the disabled.
The hearing centers on a case involving the state of Tennessee, which has been charged by three plaintiffs with discrimination under the Americans with Disability Act.
The only information NCD automatically collects is the visitor's Internet domain and Internet Protocol address, the type of browser and operating system used to access the site, the file visited and the time spent in each file, and the time and date of the visit.
www.ncd.gov /newsroom/audio/frieden_01-13-04.htm   (1514 words)

  
 Intuit Press Release- CNNfn.com And Intuit Announce Quicken.com On Fn, The Premier Personal Financial Resource On The ...
Located at www.cnnfn.com/quickenonfn/, QUICKEN.COM ON FN will be free of charge to consumers and offer up-to-the-minute financial information combined with powerful financial management tools to enable them to make the most of their money.
CNNfn.com, which averages 53 million page impressions each month, is the companion site to CNNfn, the first television network to launch on television and the Web.
CNNfn and "Your Money" and related logos are trademarks of CNNfn and are protected under the applicable laws of the United States and other jurisdictions.
web.intuit.com /about_intuit/investors/corporate_releases/1997/12-02.html   (1040 words)

  
 Kent Denver School | Credit Union Featured on CNNfn
A CNN cameraman focuses in on the lunchtime activity at the Kent Denver Credit Union on January 22.
The Kent Denver Credit Union was featured in a live newscast on CNNfn's national program "Dolans Unscripted" on Monday, January 26.
Credit Union employees Brett Perlmutter '05 and Patrick Jobin '04, as well as founder Donna Duvall-Serrano, were interviewed live from the show's New York City studio via a link to a Denver television studio.
www.kentdenver.org /pages/sitepage.cfm?id=147   (117 words)

  
 CNNfn Cashes In Chips - 11/1/2004 - Multichannel News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
CNNfn's current carriage base of 30 million subscribers will essentially be up for grabs, although parent Turner Broadcasting System Inc. is now in the process of talking to distributors about using that real estate for some of the programmer's other services, such as CNN International, TNT HD and Boomerang.
Rather than maintain CNNfn as a linear TV network, the CNN News Group will migrate its business-news programming to its fully distributed services, CNN and CNN Headline News, and offer it on such new platforms as video on demand, subscription VOD and broadband, Walton said.
As for CNNfn's 30 million homes, Walton pointed out CNN International's feed is now carried on CNNfn on weekends and at night.
www.multichannel.com /article/CA476564.html?display=Top+Stories   (853 words)

  
 AP: CNNfn Will Shut Down After 9 Years - MSNBC Wire Services - MSNBC.com
Sixty jobs will be eliminated, but CNN said it will add about 100 new jobs across the company, many related to the Headline News plans.
Walton said CNN would try to persuade cable and satellite operators to replace CNNfn with CNN International, which already airs on the weekend on CNNfn.
Besides CNBC, CNNfn has also competed with Bloomberg TV, which airs some of its financial news on the E! Entertainment network in the morning hours.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6354145   (529 words)

  
 Jason Kelly | Jason on CNNfn
My relationship with CNNfn started when I first appeared as a guest on the program "It's Only Money"in January, 1997.
In a much-publicized interview with CNNfn anchor Valerie Morris on July 30, 1997, I warned investors to steer clear of Asia-specific mutual funds in favor of broadly diversified international funds (read an excerpt).
I still appear occasionally on CNNfn and am on call as one of the network's expert resources.
www.jasonkelly.com /cnnfn.html   (206 words)

  
 TheStreet.com: CNNfn Takes a Stake in PCQuote.com
4/14/99 4:53 PM ET The financial news network CNNfn said Wednesday it is taking a minority ownership stake in PCQuote.com, the Internet subsidiary of stock-information company PC Quote (PQT:AMEX - news), and will start supplying news headlines from the CNNfn.com Web site to PC Quote's site.
The companies said the agreement represents the first step toward what is likely to be closer ties between CNNfn and PC Quote.
TheStreet.com reported March 25 that the companies were in discussions to partner on a joint Internet venture.
www.thestreet.com /tech/internet/736270.html   (489 words)

  
 CNNfn Launches One-Stop Business News and Shopping Site
CNNfn.com has launched the CNNfn POWER SHOPPER, an online shopping service for users and investors that combines up-to-the-minute access to business news and information with online shopping capabilities.
Product categories on the CNNfn POWER SHOPPER include apparel and jewelry, books and magazines, computer hardware, electronics, flowers and cards, music and videos, office supplies, sporting goods, toys and video games.
Users can access the CNNfn POWER SHOPPER on the CNNfn.com home page or by going directly to the URL: (http://www.cnnfn.com/powershopper/).
directmag.com /news/marketing_cnnfn_launches_onestop   (351 words)

  
 CNNfn going off the air
CNN will shut down its CNNfn financial news network in mid-December after nine years on the air.
Available to about 30 million U.S. households, CNNfn could also be seen in Canada by viewers with grey market satellite dishes.
However, CNNfn's deal with the DirectTV satellite system was due to expire, meaning it could lose some of its distribution.
www.cbc.ca /money/story/2004/10/28/cnnfn_041028.html   (973 words)

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