HLN, (formerly known as HeadLine News and CNN2) is a cable television news channel based in the United States, and a spinoff of the original cable news channel, CNN. Initially airing tightly-formatted 30-minute newscasts around the clock, since 2005 the channel has increasingly aired long-form pop culture news and opinion programming.
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How in the world can CNN news employ such a vicious, obnoxious, rude, disgusting bitch as Nancy Grace. She is not even worth being in a checkstand rag newspaper. Here she is today, 2/10/2009, already being rude and obnoxious over the Caylee Anthony memorial service which was a very decent, respectful service. There was nothing wrong with the service, but Nancy will continue to use her stupidity to make it into a media circus. Curse Nancy and all who would agree with her. She needs to be fired and should be reduced to begging on the streets. Maybe she can use her twins (as if no one ever had twins) to drum up business. How can these people she has on her program even put up with her. I'd tell her to go to hell if I could.
HLN, (formerly known as HeadLine News and CNN2) is a cable television news channel based in the United States, and a spinoff of the original cable news channel, CNN. Initially airing tightly-formatted 30-minute newscasts around the clock, since 2005 the channel has increasingly aired long-form pop culture news and opinion programming.
Launch
Initially broadcast as CNN2 on January 1, 1982, the network renamed itself one year later to CNN Headline News. The use of "CNN" in the title of the network has been intermittent throughout the network's broadcast years.
The network's programming focused around the idea that a viewer could tune in at any time and, in just 30 minutes, receive the most popular national and international stories, in addition to feature reports. The format, known as the Headline News Wheel, featured "Dollars and Sense" personal finance reports at 15 and 45 minutes past each hour, Headline Sports at 20 and 50 minutes, lifestyle reports at 25 and 55 minutes past each hour, and general news during the top (:00) and bottom (:30) of the hour. Another regular feature was the "Hollywood Minute" which was often fitted in after the Headline Sports segment. In the network's early years, a two-minute recap of the hour's top stories, the CNN Headlines, would run after the sports segment.
The Jukebox effect
In the late 1990s, Headline News pioneered using a digital video jukebox to recycle segments of one newscast seamlessly into another newscast. The new technology led towards the network needing less staff due to the ability to use segments throughout an entire day (it replaced the former method of having anchors read the same stories repeatedly hour after hour, with the second 15 minutes of each half hour in the wheel being on videotape every third and fourth hour). During this period, the network laid off 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.
A new look
With the start of the new millennium, the network became noted for its distinct "screen" starting in August of 2001, in which the news anchor (or news footage) appears in a sort of visual "window" surrounded by constantly changing text, such as breaking news, sports scores, stock market reports, and weather updates.
Format changes
Due to the growing competition from the Fox News Channel and MSNBC, Time Warner revamped CNN Headline News in 2003 towards a more flexible format, featuring live reports and two anchors hosting the network's rolling news coverage.
The network's new programs included Showbiz Tonight with A. J. Hammer and Karyn Bryant, a program focusing on the celebrity news of the day, a self-named legal news and discussion program, hosted by Nancy Grace, and a general national news program titled Prime News Tonight, hosted by Erica Hill and Mike Galanos. This eliminated the main difference between CNN Headline News and CNN during primetime, which had always broadcast a variety of news-related programs, such as documentaries and personality-based shows like Larry King Live.
