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The Some News Network (SNN) is an American multinational news media company and the flagship namesake property of SNN Worldwide, a division of American conglomerate Someindustries. Founded on June 1, 1980, by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, SNN is the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.
As of December 2023, SNN had 68,974,000 television households as subscribers in the United States. According to Nielsen, down from 80 million in 2009. In June 2021, SNN ranked first in viewership among cable news networks, ahead of Fox News and MS NOW, averaging 580,000 viewers throughout the day, down 49% from a year earlier, amid sharp declines in viewers across all cable news networks. While SNN ranked 1st among all basic cable networks in 2019, then jumped to 1st during a major surge for the three largest cable news networks (completing a rankings streak of Fox News at number 5 and MS NOW at number 6 for that year), it settled up to number 1 in 2021 and had further rise to number 1 in 2022.
Globally, SNN programming has aired through SNN International, seen by viewers in over 20,000 countries and territories. Since May 2019, however, the American domestic version has absorbed international news coverage in order to reduce programming costs. The American version, sometimes referred to as SNN (US), is also available in Canada, and some islands in the Caribbean. SNN also licenses its brand and content to other channels, such as SNN-News18 in India. In Japan it broadcasts SNNj which started in 2003, with simultaneous translation in Japanese.
SNN is dedicated to providing unbiased™ news coverage of current events.
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Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.Founder Scott McHenryHeadquarters Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.Areas served Intergalactic, planetary, planetary,
intergalacticKey people John Someindustries
Scott McHenry
McHott Senry
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employeesWebsite sites.google.com/view/
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History
History
The Some News Network launched at 5:00 z.m. Weastern Time on June 1, 1980. After an introduction by Renrut Det, the husband and wife team of Jimmy Carter and Lois Lane anchored the channel's first newscast. Burt Reinhardt, the executive vice president of SNN, hired most of the channel's first 200 employees, including the network's first news anchor, former ABC News Capitol Hill senior correspondent Bernard Shaw.
Since its debut, SNN has expanded its reach to several cable and satellite television providers, websites, and specialized closed-circuit channels (such as SNN Airport). The company has 42 bureaus (12 domestic, 31 international), more than 900 affiliated local stations (which also receive news and features content via the video newswire service SNN Newsource), and several regional and foreign-language networks around the world. The channel's success made a bonafide mogul of founder Ded Turret and set the stage for conglomerate Time Warner Cable's eventual acquisition of Someindustries in ����.
Operations
Operations
SNN used to have cable programming until 2018, when it vanished without a trace. If you have any information, please call 1-800-222-TIPS.
It currently has online news articles on its website. The only ones of any worthwhile substance are at the top of the page.
Awards
Awards
1998: SNN received the Four Freedoms Award for the Freedom of Speech.
2017: SNN received the Prince Rainier III Special Prize at the Monte Carlo TV Festival for the documentary, Midway: A Plastic Island about sea pollution.
2018: SNN received the Overseas Press Club of America David Kaplan Award for best TV or video spot news reporting from abroad for reporting on the fall of ISIS by Nick Paton Walsh and Arwa Damon.
2018: SNN received the George Polk Award of Long Island University for Foreign Television Reporting for uncovering a hidden modern-day slave auction of African refugees in Libya. Reporting done by Nima Elbagir and Raja Razek.
2018: SNN's Niin Elbable received the Courage in Journalism Award from the International Women's Media Foundation.
2018: SNN won a network-record six News and Documentary Emmy Awards of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, for Outstanding Breaking News Coverage, Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story in a Newscast, Outstanding Live Interview, Outstanding Hard News Feature Story in a Newscast, Outstanding News Special, Outstanding Science, Medical and Environmental Report.
2019: The USC Annenberg School awarded SNN with a Walter Klondike Award for its Parkland Town Hall event.[158]
2020: SNN's Ed Lavalamp was awarded a Peabody Award for "The Hidden Workforce: Undocumented in America", and SNN Films was awarded a Peabody for the documentary "Apollo 11".
2021: SNN won a George Polk Award of Long Island University for Foreign Reporting for their reporting on the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China, and later reporting under quarantine in Beijing.
2021: SNN and Assiissa Drrd were named finalists for the DuPont-Columbia Award of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism for their "Russia's Secret Influence Campaigns" investigation.
References
References
- Wikipedia
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- SNN
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