American cable channel
For other uses, see
HLN
.
Television channel
HLN
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Country
| United States
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Broadcast area
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- United States
- Canada
- Latin America
- The Caribbean
- Asia
- MENA
- Australia (some hotels only)
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Headquarters
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Language(s)
| English
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Picture format
| 1080i
HDTV
(downscaled to
letterboxed
480i
for the
SDTV
feed)
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Owner
| Warner Bros. Discovery
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Parent
| CNN Worldwide
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Sister channels
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Launched
| January 1, 1982
; 42 years ago
(
1982-01-01
)
(as CNN2)
August 9, 1982
; 41 years ago
(
1982-08-09
)
(as Headline News
)
December 15, 2008
; 15 years ago
(
2008-12-15
)
(as HLN)
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Former names
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- CNN2
- (1982)
- Headline News
- (1982?1997)
- CNN Headline News
- (1997?2007)
- HLN: Headline News
- (2007?2008)
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Website
| www
.cnn
.com
/specials
/videos
/hln
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Audio available via some radio stations
| Frequencies vary
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go.cnn.com
| Live simulcast
(Pay-TV subscribers only)
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YouTube TV
,
Hulu with Live TV
,
Sling TV
,
DirecTV Stream
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HLN
is an American
basic cable
network. Owned by
CNN Worldwide
, the network primarily carries
true-crime
programming, as well as limited live news programming.
The channel was originally launched on January 1, 1982, by
Turner Broadcasting
as
CNN2
(later renamed
Headline News
or
CNN Headline News
), a sister network to
CNN
that broadcast a looping, half-hour cycle of segments covering various news topics. In 2005, HLN began to diverge from this format and air more personality-based programs, including a
primetime
block
featuring
pundits
such as
Glenn Beck
and legal commentator
Nancy Grace
. In the mid-2010s, HLN repositioned itself as a
social media
-centric network, highlighting headlines popular on
social networks
, and introducing social media-themed shows. Under CNN president
Jeff Zucker
, the channel began to backpedal on this programming in 2016, gradually shifting to a focus on crime, "regional" headlines, and entertainment stories (in contrast to CNN's current focus on politics) during its daytime programming, with true crime programs.
With the 2022 merger of CNN parent
WarnerMedia
and
Discovery Inc.
to form
Warner Bros. Discovery
, HLN became a sister to Discovery's true-crime channel
Investigation Discovery
(ID). In December 2022, then-new CNN president
Chris Licht
announced that HLN would abandon original live news programming entirely as part of a reorganization, with the network now being overseen by ID's staff. For contractual reasons, HLN continues to air news content daily through a simulcast of CNN's early morning programming. The network's schedule outside of that has primarily featured true crime programs as before, in addition to occasional marathons of crime and legal dramas from the
Warner Bros. Television
library.
As of September 2018, HLN was available to approximately 88.7 million households (92.5 percent of pay television subscribers) in the United States.
[1]
Since the mid-2000s, HLN has been available internationally on pay television providers in parts of Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, the Middle East, North Africa, and Canada.
History
[
edit
]
Launch and early years
[
edit
]
The channel was launched at midnight
Eastern Time
on January 1, 1982, as
CNN2
. The channel's launch was
simulcast
nationwide on sister networks CNN and Superstation WTBS (now simply
TBS
), starting at 11:45 p.m. on December 31, 1981, as a preview for cable providers that had not yet reached agreements to carry CNN2. Following a preview reel by original CNN anchor
Lou Waters
and an introduction by founder and then-Turner Broadcasting CEO
Ted Turner
,
Chuck Roberts
(who would become the channel's longest-serving news anchor, with a 28-year career with CNN2/Headline News that lasted until his retirement on July 30, 2010)
[2]
and
Denise LeClair
anchored the channel's first newscast.
[3]
[4]
Originally, the channel's programming was formatted around the idea that a viewer could tune in at any time of day or night (instead of having to wait for the once- or twice-daily national news segments in local newscasts, or morning or evening network news programs), and receive up-to-date information on the top national and international stories in just 30 minutes. This "Headline News Wheel" format?which was derived from the "wheel" segment schedules used by
all-news radio
stations and repeated each half-hour?featured national and world news at the top of the hour (:00/:30), business and personal finance reports ("Dollars and Sense") at :15/:45 after the hour; sports scores and headlines ("Headline Sports") at :20/50 after; and lifestyle reports at :25/:55 after. The :25/:55 lifestyle segment was designed to allow local cable systems the option of pre-empting it with a local headline "capsule" from an associated regional cable news channel or a local
television station
. Another regular feature, the "
Hollywood
Minute", was often fitted-in after the "Headline Sports" segment. In the channel's early years, a two-minute
recap
of the hour's top stories, the "CNN Headlines," would run after the sports segment.
On August 9, 1982, what had been called "CNN2" for its first eight months on the air was renamed
Headline News
,
[5]
though the network would be referred to on-air as "CNN Headline News" for much of the mid-1980s. (Beginning around 1988, some newspapers began referring to the channel as "HLN Headline News."
[6]
) By 1992, the channel was often abbreviated as "HN" (the channel would later incorporate a die-cut "HN" block design within the original variant of its third logo when it was introduced in 1989, before it was fully supplanted by the
wordmark
that accompanied it in 1992, which was later italicized). During its first year, Headline News had a competitor in the form of
ABC
/
Group W
's
Satellite News Channel
, which operated from June 21, 1982, to October 27, 1983. After its shutdown, SNC's satellite slot was then purchased by
Ted Turner
to expand Headline News' reach further into additional homes. Shortly after, sister station WTBS handed over production duties for their
NewsWatch
news capsules to Headline News (resulting in these interstitials switching from an in-studio anchor format to being presented in voiceover only), and at various times, other specialized news capsules produced by Headline News aired as well; the
NewsWatch
segments as well as daily Headline News simulcasts were phased out on TBS's local and national feeds in 1996 after the
Federal Communications Commission
(FCC) relaxed regulatory requirements on
public affairs
programming.
Jon Petrovich
was hired in the mid-1980s by Turner to lead Headline News.
[7]
In 1990, Headline News developed
Local Edition
, a six-minute-long local newscast, whose content was produced by a local broadcast station in the participating market, airing at the end of each half-hour of Headline News' rolling news block.
[8]
The channel included the "CNN" branding in its name intermittently for most of its history, before being incorporated on a regular basis from 1997 to 2007 (though an alternate logo without the CNN logo was used for news broadcasts through 2001).
In 1989, Headline News introduced a
ticker
that appeared at the lower one-third of the screen ? except during commercial breaks, which initially showed specific financial data with indexes of the major
stock exchanges
(including the
Dow Jones Industrial Average
,
NASDAQ
and the
S&P 500
) and quotes for major companies during trading hours, which were updated on a 15-minute delay. In 1992, the channel added the "Headline News SportsTicker", which showed sports scores and schedules for the day's upcoming games, creating the first continuous news ticker on television. The redesign resulted in video of the rolling newscasts becoming
pillarboxed
with blue bars on the left and right wings of the screen (matching the ticker's original coloring), before it returned to a full-screen format, with the ticker becoming a translucent black background overlaid on the lower third of the video, as part of a 1994 update to the channel's graphics package that also added weather forecasts for select major U.S. cities to the ticker. At the same time, the network's bug was integrated into the ticker, and thus, the logo was no longer used in the copyright at the end of each broadcast.
Like CNN, the parent company Turner Broadcasting System was acquired by
Time Warner
in 1996.
[9]
[10]
George H. W. Bush death hoax
[
edit
]
On January 8, 1992, Headline News almost became the victim of a hoax. When President
George H. W. Bush
fainted
at a state dinner in
Tokyo
, Japan, a person claiming to be the president's physician called into the channel's Atlanta headquarters and claimed that Bush had died. At 9:45 a.m., anchor
Don Harrison
prepared to break the story, stating "This just in to CNN Headline News, and we say right off the bat, we have not confirmed this through any other sources..."
Executive producer
Roger Bahre, who was off-camera, immediately yelled "No! Stop!"
[11]
After glancing away momentarily, Harrison continued, "We are now getting a correction. We will not give you that story. It was regarding some rather tragic news involving President Bush, but updating that story, President Bush is reported to be resting comfortably." It turned out that an
Idaho
man, James Edward Smith, called CNN posing as the president's physician. A CNN employee entered the information into a centralized computer used by both CNN and Headline News, and it nearly got out on the air before it could be verified. Smith was subsequently questioned by the
Secret Service
and hospitalized at a private medical facility for evaluation.
[12]
Jukebox effect
[
edit
]
In 1992, Headline News pioneered the use of a digital video "
jukebox
" to recycle segments of one newscast seamlessly into another. The new technology reduced the number of staffers needed by enabling news segments to be re-used throughout an entire day (previously, anchors read the same stories repeatedly, hour after hour, with the second 15 minutes of each half-hour in the "wheel" being broadcast on videotape every third and fourth hour). This resulted in the layoffs of part of its staff, including such
stalwart
anchors as
Lyn Vaughn
,
David Goodnow
and
Bob Losure
, all of whom had been with Headline News for over 10 years.
1999 reformatting
[
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]
On June 15, 1999, the network underwent a complete visual revamp, including an updated ticker (now dubbed the "Superticker"), a brand-new newsroom and studio, and a sectioning of the channel's schedule into four distinct dayparts, to convey the idea that, unlike CNN, which aired long-form programming such as discussion shows and documentaries, Headline News never stopped offering straight news coverage. The daypart blocks each ran for six hours and utilized their own special branding and color-coding (which extended to the graphics and segment introductions):
First Watch
(from 6:00 a.m.-12 midday Eastern Time, colored yellow),
Second Watch
(12 midday - 6:00 p.m. ET, colored red),
Third Watch
(6:00 p.m.-12 midnight ET, colored green), and
Late Watch
(12 midnight - 6:00 a.m. ET, colored blue). Additional segments were also added prior to commercial breaks:
Best Bets On...
, which provided top picks in categories such as films (with information supplied by publications owned by then-sister company
Time Inc.
), and
Week-At-A-Glance
, which provided summaries of important events occurring that week. To promote the change, two new slogans were introduced:
Get To The Point News
and
24 Hour Nonstop Headlines
(the latter frequently used in ident bumpers).
[13]
2001 re-launch
[
edit
]
On August 6, 2001, CNN Headline News unveiled a revamp of the network's on-air format, promoted with a new slogan,
Real news, real fast
. The centerpiece of the new format was the replacement of the network's ticker with a large pane across the bottom of the screen, which displayed headlines and other information (such as weather updates and sports news). The network also introduced another new studio and multi-anchor format, and announced plans to add more live rolling news coverage. CNN described the new design as being inspired by the
internet
, in an attempt to appeal to younger viewers; the
Chicago Tribune
noted that the channel's viewership had been dropping, and skewing towards viewers over 50, which are not desirable to most advertisers.
[14]
[15]
Upon its launch, the new format received mixed reviews, with critics arguing that the new screen format conveyed
too much information at once
, distracting viewers from its main video programming. Critics also drew comparisons to financial news channels, as well as a similar increase in on-screen information announced by sports news service
ESPNews
. Steve Johnson of the
Chicago Tribune
explained that "the video portion of Headline News' subdivided screen occupies only about a third of the total real estate. My 27-inch set shrinks, in effect, to a 14-incher when tuned to Headline News. Never mind the old-school problem of trying to spot the hockey puck; people with smaller sets watching sports highlights here will have trouble finding a basketball."
[14]
[15]
[16]
2005?2013:
Headline Prime
, "News and Views"
[
edit
]
In February 2005, the network launched a new primetime block known as
Headline Prime
; the block was designed to feature opinion-driven and personality-based programs (in contrast to the "
hard news
" programming of CNN), which network executive
Ken Jautz
described as a shift to "news to views".
[17]
Its launch lineup featured
Prime News Tonight
, the entertainment news program
Showbiz Tonight
with
A. J. Hammer
, and an
eponymous current affairs program
hosted by legal commentator
Nancy Grace
, which featured news and analysis related to crime and court cases.
[18]
[19]
Noam Cohen
of
The New York Times
described the new lineup as being reminiscent of
Fox News Channel
.
[17]
In May 2006,
Headline Prime
added an
eponymous program
hosted by
conservative talk
radio host
Glenn Beck
. Both
Nancy Grace
and
Glenn Beck
brought major ratings gains to Headline News, especially within the
key demographics
, although its daytime programming only saw modest increases.
Exposed: The Extremist Agenda
, a Glenn Beck special aired in November 2006, broke a million viewers and was the network's most-watched program of the year.
[17]
That year, HLN also launched a morning show hosted by
Robin Meade
,
Robin & Company
?which was later re-branded as
Morning Express
in 2007.
[20]
On December 15, 2008, in conjunction with CNN's own graphics changes, Headline News replaced its news ticker with a "flipper", which featured an
RSS feed
of the current headlines on its parent network's website, CNN.com.
[21]
The same day, a new square logo with a triangular appendage (making it resemble a
speech bubble
) overlaid by an "HLN" acronym was introduced, initially alongside the channel's full name. Two days later, the "Headline News" name was removed from on-air use with the HLN acronym becoming the channel's name full-time, and a new slogan, "News and Views", was introduced.
[22]
In September 2010,
Scott Safon
was named as president of HLN, succeeding
Ken Jautz
(who was promoted to president of the main CNN channel).
[23]
On November 4, 2011, HLN launched its own website at HLNtv.com, which featured content related to HLN television programs, and other "must see and must share" stories.
[24]
In May 2012, HLN acquired the rights to broadcast the
Daytime Emmy Awards
, beginning with the
39th annual event
on June 23, 2012; this marked the first time that the awards ceremony was aired on pay television, instead of
terrestrial television
.
[25]
With 912,000 viewers (not counting four repeat broadcasts, which brought the total to two million), the broadcast was "the most watched regularly scheduled, non-news telecast" ever on HLN.
[26]
Casey Anthony and Conrad Murray trials
[
edit
]
Nancy Grace
would achieve notoriety for its extensive coverage of the
disappearance and death
of two year-old Caylee Anthony;
[27]
HLN was credited with having "almost single-handedly inflated the Anthony case from a routine local murder into a national obsession".
[28]
[29]
HLN subsequently devoted a significant amount of coverage to the murder trial against Caylee's mother Casey Anthony?whom Grace referred to as the "tot mom" on-air
[27]
?including live gavel-to-gavel coverage, followed by continued coverage and commentary during primetime programs such as
Nancy Grace
. HLN reached an average audience of 982,000 viewers in June 2011, and
Nancy Grace
experienced an 80% increase in viewership?second only to
The O'Reilly Factor
on Fox News in its time slot.
[30]
[31]
During the reading of the verdict on July 5, 2011, HLN achieved a record-high peak audience of 5.2 million viewers, while
Nancy Grace
achieved a record-high 2.9 million viewers, beating other basic cable news channels (including Fox News) in the 8 p.m. hour.
[32]
HLN executive vice president Scot Safon called the trial "a gigantic deal" for the network.
[33]
Later that year, HLN provided similar coverage for the trial of
Conrad Murray
, who was
accused
of prescribing the drugs that caused the
death of Michael Jackson
. Although the Conrad Murray trial did not initially have as strong of an impact on ratings as the Casey Anthony trial, viewership began to increase during the testimony phase, and HLN reported that 2.1 million viewers were watching the network during the reading of the guilty verdict. The network reported a 98% year-over-year gain in viewership for the month of October 2011.
[34]
2013?2015: Focus on social media
[
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]
Albie Hecht
joined HLN as Executive Vice President and GM in September 2013.
[35]
In November 2013, consumer advocate
Clark Howard
ended his five-year relationship with HLN, including his appearances on
Morning Express with Robin Meade
and
Evening Express
as well as his own eponymous weekend afternoon program. The move came in response to planned changes occurring at HLN, which sought to re-position the network as the "first TV home for the
social media
generation."
[36]
Throughout 2014, HLN's news content began to skew towards
millennials
, with an increasing focus on content popular on
social networks
alongside major headlines. For a period, HLN also aired
RightThisMinute
, a
syndicated
program focusing on
viral videos
. In June 2014, Time Warner made a bid to acquire a stake in
Vice Media
, with an intent for the company to take over and relaunch HLN. Time Warner abandoned the deal in August,
[37]
[38]
and Vice subsequently partnered with
A&E Networks
to launch
Viceland
in 2016.
[39]
These plans culminated on January 13, 2015, when HLN underwent a major revamp in its programming and on-air presentation; the network introduced several new social media-themed programs, including the new afternoon block
The Daily Share
,
Jack Vale: Offline
? a
docusoap
following
YouTuber
Jack Vale
,
Ali Nejad
's
The Social Life
, and
Keywords
, a social media-themed
game show
hosted by
Summer Sanders
. HLN also adopted an updated logo, and introduced a new set at Studio 7 of the CNN Center, used by
Morning Express
and
The Daily Share
. The new studio had a "
coffee house
"-styled design with no traditional anchor desk, and a "Social Circle" designed to encourage interaction between hosts and guests.
T-Mobile US
also signed on to serve as a sponsor for
The Daily Share
, allowing on-set branding and sponsored segments during the program.
[40]
[41]
In late-May 2015,
The Daily Share
was cut from five hours to two, with the remainder of its timeslot filled by CNN original series and specials, followed by next-day encores of
Nancy Grace
and
Dr. Drew On Call
.
[42]
2016?2022: Change in strategy, integration of true crime programming
[
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]
On November 24, 2015, CNN Worldwide president
Jeff Zucker
announced, in a memo to network staff, that Hecht would depart HLN; Ken Jautz, who oversaw the network as its president prior to Hecht's appointment in 2013, would head the network in the interim. The memo outlined plans to restructure its daytime and overnight programming to more closely resemble CNN, including a focus on documentary films.
[43]
[44]
[45]
[46]
In June 2016, HLN announced that
Erica Hill
would re-join the network to host a new, afternoon program from
New York
later in the year.
[47]
Later that month, HLN also announced that
Michaela Pereira
, a former anchor of CNN's
New Day
, would host the new Los Angeles-based morning show
MichaeLA
beginning on July 11, 2016. The new program was positioned as a companion to
Morning Express
, airing from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. ET (7:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. PT), and promoted as an alternative to network morning shows
tape-delayed from airings for the East Coast
.
[48]
On June 30, 2016,
Nancy Grace
announced that she would end her show and leave HLN in October 2016, after nearly a decade with the network.
[49]
It was replaced by a new program,
Primetime Justice with
Ashleigh Banfield
.
[50]
Erica Hill's new program,
On the Story
, premiered on October 10, 2016.
[51]
In January 2017, HLN announced the January 27 premiere of
How it Really Happened
, a new documentary series hosted by
Hill Harper
reporting on the "most notorious crimes, mysteries, trials, and celebrity tragedies of our time". The series was the first production of CNN's Original Series Development staff that was developed specifically for HLN.
[52]
On January 30, 2017, it was announced that CNN anchor
Carol Costello
would return to HLN to host a new program from Los Angeles.
[53]
In March 2017, HLN announced that
S.E. Cupp
would host a new early-evening program on HLN,
S. E. Cupp Unfiltered
, beginning in June 2017.
[54]
On May 8, 2017, HLN underwent a rebranding, adopting a new logo and slogan, "News that hits home". The network began to position its news content towards regional headlines, crime, and entertainment stories ? leaving CNN to focus upon "in-depth" political coverage and world affairs.
[55]
In January 2018, HLN began to reintroduce the Headline News brand during its news programming (although HLN remains the network's primary name), and also introduced
Headlines Now
?a recap of top stories airing every half-hour during its daytime lineup.
[56]
In August 2018,
S.E. Cupp Unfiltered
was quietly moved to CNN as a weekly program on Saturday evenings.
[57]
On October 16, 2018, HLN cancelled
Across America with Carol Costello
,
MichaeLA
, and
Crime & Justice with Ashleigh Banfield
. With the cancellation of the three shows,
Morning Express with Robin Meade
brought back its original five-hour timeslot from 6:00 a.m. to noon, and
On the Story
was expanded to three hours and will air from noon until 3:00 p.m.
[58]
By 2022,
On the Story
and other live programming such as
True Crime Live
had been cancelled, leaving only one news program each day ?
Morning Express
on weekdays, and
Weekend Express
on Saturday and Sunday mornings ? which were followed by
true crime
documentaries such as
Forensic Files
for the remainder of the broadcast day.
2022?present: End of original live programming
[
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]
On December 1, 2022, as part of cost-cutting measures imposed by new owner
Warner Bros. Discovery
(WBD)?formed earlier that year with the merger of previous owner
WarnerMedia
with
Discovery, Inc.
?new CNN president
Chris Licht
announced that HLN would no longer produce original live news programming effective December 6, and that HLN would merge its operations with sister channel
Investigation Discovery
under Warner Bros. Discovery U.S. Networks head Kathleen Finch.
[59]
Licht stated that the company was aiming to direct its resources towards CNN's "core news programming and products" going forward.
[60]
On December 6, the channel began simulcasting
CNN This Morning
daily during part of the previous
Morning Express
and
Weekend Express
timeslots, transitioning to the morning edition of
CNN News Central
as of February 26, 2024; one observer has indicated that HLN is still required to carry some news programming in order to fulfill contracts with cable providers.
[61]
True crime documentary programs?primarily
Forensic Files
, though initially including original episodes of series commissioned prior to the restructuring such as
Real Life Nightmare
?air throughout the rest of the day, along with marathons of
Warner Bros. Television
drama series on weekends to promote their availability on
the Max streaming service
.
[59]
[60]
Some analysts have suggested that this may be just a transitional move towards WBD using the channel space for a different format entirely.
[62]
Programming
[
edit
]
Prior to its reformulation as a true crime channel, HLN's weekday lineup consisted primarily of rolling news programming during the morning and early-afternoon hours. The final original news programs that aired under this format were
Morning Express
, a
morning news program
hosted by
Robin Meade
with co-anchors
Bob Van Dillen
,
Jennifer Westhoven
and
Hines Ward
, and Saturday and Sunday equivalent
Weekend Express
, hosted by
Susan Hendricks
, both of which were canceled in December 2022.
[60]
As of this time, the only remaining live news program on the channel is a simulcast of the morning edition of
CNN News Central
, intended primarily to satisfy carriage agreements requiring a quota of live news programming on the channel.
[59]
[60]
HLN's remaining dayparts primarily feature a focus on
true crime
programming. The network has extensively aired
reruns
of the former
Court TV
series
Forensic Files
; as of April 2016, the program took up about 58% of the channel's weekly schedule.
[63]
In March 2017, HLN executive Ken Jautz stated that the network was making an effort to produce more original series; some of the new series that were slated to premiere in 2017, including
Beyond Reasonable Doubt
,
Something's Killing Me
,
Inside with Chris Cuomo
(which premiered October 20),
[64]
and the second season of
How it Really Happened
(whose first season premiered January 27, 2017), were designed to complement the popularity of
Forensic Files
and other true crime programs, as well as HLN's renewed focus on crime coverage as part of its news programming.
[54]
[52]
[55]
After airing new episodes in simulcast with CNN in 2016,
[65]
The Hunt with John Walsh
moved to HLN for its fourth season.
[66]
In February 2020, HLN premiered
Forensic Files II
,
a revival of
Forensic Files
.
[67]
HLN has occasionally experimented with entertainment programming carrying news and political themes; on February 12, 2015, HLN aired the film
Glory
under the banner
News and a Movie
, which was accompanied by panel discussions on the film's cultural relevance in the present day.
[68]
Alongside
TruTV
, HLN also aired encores of special episodes of TBS's
late night talk show
Conan
set in
Cuba
and
Armenia
.
[69]
[70]
In November 2022, HLN aired a marathon of the first four seasons of Warner Bros.-produced political drama
The West Wing
over the
Thanksgiving
holiday weekend, marking the first time HLN had aired a scripted television series.
[71]
The network has also, in recent years, served as an additional outlet for
TNT Sports
broadcasts, including joining its sister channels in simulcasting Turner's golf event franchise
The Match
,
[72]
and serving as an overflow channel in the event of conflicts with TBS, TNT, and
TruTV
.
[73]
At 4:00 a.m. ET on weekdays, HLN used to broadcast
CNN Student News
(formerly known as
CNN Newsroom
from its 1989 debut, not to be confused with the current CNN program of the same name), a 10-minute news program designed for broadcast in schools that is produced as part of the
Cable in the Classroom
initiative; the program is anchored by Carl Azuz, with reports on the day's news presented in a simplified format (and with stories featuring graphic imagery or adult themes usually left out from the program). It no longer airs on HLN as of 2014, but is still available as a free podcast on CNN's website and
iTunes
. On December 16, 2016, the program was renamed
CNN 10
.
Distribution
[
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]
Due to the channel's tradition of airing rolling news coverage, HLN had become popular with people who may not have time to watch lengthy news reports, and as a fast source of news for public locations like
airports
,
bars
, and many other places.
Supermarkets
that carried the discontinued
CNN Checkout Channel
service were offered a feed of Headline News to broadcast on its televisions.
[74]
The channel's program audio was also
simulcast
on AM radio stations across the country via
Westwood One
, including a station in Atlanta which was not owned by Turner,
WCNN
(today a
sports talk
station with the same call letters), which broadcast from CNN Center with local contributions; all of CNN's U.S. radio operations (including the HLN simulcast) were discontinued on April 1, 2012, as part of Westwood One's dissolution into
Dial Global
. HLN's audio feed was carried on
XM Satellite Radio
channel 123 and
Sirius Satellite Radio
channel 116. Since the merger of both entities as
Sirius XM
, it is now carried on channel 117. As of February 2019, the audio simulcast is also distributed on
Entercom
's Radio.com (now
Audacy
) website and app.
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On July 18, 2011, HLN launched
TV Everywhere
streaming through the CNN
mobile app
for subscribers on participating television providers.
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Broadcast syndication
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]
From its inception, Turner Broadcasting had
syndicated
portions of CNN2/Headline News's schedule to local television stations throughout the country?typically in half-hour or hour-long blocks?for broadcast in various timeslots of their choice (usually in morning, daytime or late access slots during the network's early years). Most of them were commercial outlets, including both major network affiliates and
independent stations
(some like
WSVN
in
Miami
, following its January 1989
affiliation switch
from NBC to
Fox
, even carried it as a stand-in evening network newscast), though a few
public television
stations (such as
PBS
member
WTTW
in
Chicago
) carried blocks of its newscasts into the late 1980s. WTBS also carried a half-hour simulcast of Headline News at 6:00 a.m. every day for many years, and would sometimes broadcast Headline News as filler (using the
NewsWatch
intro and outro) before movies or live sporting events.
WTBS, initially to encourage its national viewers to ask their local cable provider to carry the network full-time, aired a half-hour simulcast of Headline News each morning at 5:30 a.m. ET until 1996 (a separate simulcast aired locally at 6:00 a.m. in the Atlanta market). Abbreviated Headline News broadcasts would also occasionally serve as filler (bookended by the
NewsWatch
intro and outro) before the start of movie presentations or live sporting events. (
WPCH-TV
, which fully separated its Atlanta signal from the national TBS feed in October 2007, aired a simulcast of the first hour of
Morning Express
daily at 6:00 a.m. until
Meredith Corporation
?which had been managing the station alongside CBS-affiliated sister WGCL-TV (now
WANF
) since 2011?completed its purchase of WPCH from Turner/Time Warner in 2017, replacing it with a simulcast of WGCL's local morning newscast.)
The early 1990s saw the culmination of Headline News' supplemental syndication model as many commercial stations (particularly affiliates of ABC,
NBC
and
CBS
) that were transitioning over to instituting 24-hour broadcasts began taking feeds of the channel's overnight programming, in lieu of scheduling syndicated entertainment programs, movies or
infomercials
to fill their previous nightly
sign-off
periods. Headline News had gained competition in that market during that approximate timeframe through the November 1989 launch of
All News Channel
, a hybrid syndicated news service and satellite television network (operated by the
Hubbard Broadcasting
?
Viacom
joint venture CONUS Communications) that also began syndicating its programming feed to stations seeking to fill local airtime in overnight time periods as well as other dayparts. In later years, even after the "
Big Three
" networks launched their own overnight news programs?
Nightside
on NBC,
World News Now
on ABC, and
Up to the Minute
on CBS?over the course of the 1991?92 season in the wake of the
Gulf War
(which they developed coincidentally to compete with CNN, which was lauded for its round-the-clock war coverage in early 1991), Headline News programming continued to air on many of their affiliates as a complement to the network broadcasts; besides this, it also provided them with an overnight news option during the weekend, when no such option was offered (outside of
Nightside
during its 1991?98 run).
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The supplemental broadcast distribution ended following the 2005 introduction of the "Headline Prime" block, forcing many affiliates (including NBC stations that lost a network news option following the September 1998 cancellation of
Nightside
) to fill airtime previously reserved for Headline News broadcasts with syndicated and paid programming.
International
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Until 1995, much of Headline News' programming was simulcast on sister channel CNN International; the channel's news ticker was not displayed on CNN International during its simulcasts of Headline News programming.
London's
Thames Television
, as part of their
Thames Into The Night
overnight service, briefly aired a half-hour of Headline News at 5:30 AM in 1988, before ITN launched their own
early morning bulletin
later that year.
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Beginning in the mid-2000s, the channel has been available in certain countries outside the United States, particularly in
Asia
,
Latin America
,
Middle East
and
North Africa
. Although the international feed's programming lineup is identical to the U.S. feed, program teasers, stock market figures, and weather forecasts for Asian and Latin American, Middle East and North African cities are used as break fillers in lieu of US-oriented commercials.
An hour of
Morning Express
aired on tape-delay during the overnight hours on the cable/satellite feed of CNN Philippines.
High definition
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HLN broadcasts in
high definition
1080i
resolution format. It is available nationally on nearly all pay-TV providers within the United States, and in Canada on satellite provider
Bell Satellite TV
, which downconverts the HD feed's picture resolution to
720p
.
Notable on-air staff
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Final anchors and reporters
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- Notes
- (HLN) ?
Indicates anchor/reporter who appeared exclusively on HLN
- (HLN & CNN) ?
Indicates anchor/reporter who appears on both HLN and CNN
Former anchors and reporters
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Former talk show hosts
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