Cable news channels are

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s devoted to

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broadcasts, with the name deriving from the proliferation of such networks during the 1980s with the advent of

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. In the United States, the first nationwide cable TV news channel to launch was

CNN CNN (Cable News Network) is a multinational cable news channel headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by ...

in 1980, followed by

Financial News Network The Financial News Network (FNN) was an American financial and business news television network that was launched November 30, 1981. The purpose of the network was to broadcast programming nationwide, five days a week for seven hours a day on t ...

(FNN) in 1981 and CNN2 (now HLN) in 1982.

CNBC CNBC (formerly Consumer News and Business Channel) is an American basic cable business news channel. It provides business news programming on weekdays from 5:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., Eastern Time, while broadcasting talk sho ...

was created in 1989, taking control of FNN in 1991. Through the 1990s and beyond, the cable news industry continued to grow, with the establishment of several other networks, including, Fox News Channel,

MSNBC MSNBC (originally the Microsoft National Broadcasting Company) is an American news-based pay television cable channel. It is owned by NBCUniversala subsidiary of Comcast. Headquartered in New York City, it provides news coverage and politi ...

, and specialty channels such as

Bloomberg Television Bloomberg Television (on-air as Bloomberg) is an American-based pay television network focusing on business and capital market programming, owned by Bloomberg L.P. It is distributed globally, reaching over 310 million homes worldwide. It is head ...

Fox Business Network Fox Business (officially known as Fox Business Network, or FBN) is an American business news channel and website publication owned by the Fox News Media division of Fox Corporation. The channel broadcasts primarily from studios at 1211 Avenu ...

, and ESPN News. More recent additions to the cable news business have been

CBSN CBS News (formerly CBSN, also known as the CBS News Streaming Network) is an American streaming video news channel operated by the CBS News and Paramount Streaming divisions of Paramount Global. Launched on November 6, 2014, it features blocks ...

Newsmax TV Newsmax TV is an American conservative television channel owned by Newsmax. The network primarily focuses on opinion-based talk shows. It carries a news/talk format throughout the day and night, with documentaries and films on weekends. During ...

TheBlaze Blaze Media is an American conservative media company. It was founded in 2018 as a result of a merger between TheBlaze and CRTV LLC. The company's leadership consists of CEO Tyler Cardon and president Gaston Mooney. It is based in Irving, Tex ...

, NewsNation, part-time news network

RFD-TV RFD-TV is an American pay television channel owned by Rural Media Group, Inc. The channel features programming devoted to rural issues, concerns and interests. The channel's name is a reference to Rural Free Delivery, the name for the United St ...

, and the now defunct

Al Jazeera America Al Jazeera America was an American pay television news channel owned by the Al Jazeera Media Network. The channel was launched on August 20, 2013, to compete with CNN, HLN, MSNBC, Fox News, and in certain markets RT America. It was Al Jazeera' ...

and

Black News Channel The Black News Channel (BNC) was an American pay television news channel, targeting the African American demographic. The channel was based in Tallahassee, Florida, and launched on February 10, 2020.24-hour news networks, reruns of news programs and analysis or opinion programming are played throughout the night, with the exception of

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. Regional 24-hour cable news television channels that are primarily concerned with

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and cover some statewide interest have included

Spectrum News Spectrum News (formerly Time Warner Cable News) is the brand for a slate of cable news television channels that are owned by Charter Communications through its acquisition of Time Warner Cable in May 2016. Each of the 15 regional channels primar ...

(a brand used for multiple networks including in upstate New York, North Carolina, Florida and Texas),

NY1 NY1 (also officially known as Spectrum News NY1 and spoken as New York One) is an American cable news television channel founded by Time Warner Cable, which itself is owned by Charter Communications through its acquisition in May 2016. The channe ...

(which operates from New York City),

News 12 Networks The News 12 Networks are a group of regional cable news television channels in the New York metropolitan area that are owned by Altice USA. All channels provide rolling news coverage 24 hours a day, focusing primarily on regions of the me ...

FiOS1 FiOS1 was a news-based pay television network that was carried by Verizon Fios in the New York metropolitan area. Launched on June 22, 2009 in Long Island and New Jersey and later on May 28, 2014 in the Lower Hudson Valley, FiOS1 provided hyper- ...

, and the former

Northwest Cable News Northwest Cable News (NWCN) was an American cable news television channel owned by Tegna Media. The channel, which launched on December 18, 1995, provided 24-hour rolling news coverage focused primarily on the Pacific Northwest region of the Un ...

(NWCN) (which operated from Seattle). New England Cable News covers the six-state region of New England.

"Big Three" news channels

Listed by the number of viewers, the 'Big Three' cable TV news channels are:

Fox News Channel

Fox News Channel (FNC) launched on October 7, 1996, and was formed under the ownership of

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(founded by

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n-born media mogul

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), the fifth largest media company in the United States behind

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, the original

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(now

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), Time Warner (now

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(now

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) and

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. The network is headed by

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. The network began broadcasting its programming in high definition in May 2008. Since the network's launch, FNC has gradually grown to become the highest-rated cable network until January 2021 when MSNBC surpassed Fox News briefly, before returning to the number one position, in February 2021. FNC's former prime time lineup included programs such as ''

The O'Reilly Factor ''The O'Reilly Factor'' (originally titled ''The O'Reilly Report'' and also known as ''The Factor'') is an American cable television news and talk show. ''The O'Reilly Factor'' first aired in the United States on Fox News Channel on October 7 ...

,'' hosted by Bill O'Reilly, which had been a top rated program since the early 2000s when considered among major cable news channels. The channel's longtime slogans are "

Fair and Balanced The Fox News Channel, abbreviated FNC, commonly known as Fox News, and stylized in all caps, is an American Multinational corporation, multinational Conservatism in the United States, conservative cable television, cable List of news televisi ...

" and "We Report. You Decide" and their current slogans are "Most Watched. Most Trusted.", "Real News. Real Honest Opinion" and "America's Watching". Fox News is known for holding and promoting conservative views, supporting Donald Trump's presidency, and criticizing the Democratic party.

MSNBC

MSNBC launched on July 15, 1996, as a partnership between

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and

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(Microsoft's stake in the channel was gradually bought out by NBC until the latter's parent

bought out the remaining minority stake held by Microsoft in 2011). When the network was launched, its leading hosts included

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, John Gibson,

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and Brian Williams. For over a decade, the network's ratings were consistently in last place among the cable news channels until February 2021 when MSNBC became the highest watched news channel. After

Phil Griffin Philip T. Griffin (born November 27, 1956) is an American television executive, who from 2008 to 2021 served as president of MSNBC, a United States cable news channel. Early life The youngest of four children, Griffin grew up in Chappaqua, Ne ...

became president of MSNBC in mid-2008, the channel began shifting towards an increasingly politically liberal ideology in its analysis programming, particularly in its prime-time lineup.Cable Channel Nods to Ratings and Leans Left
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''. Published November 6, 2007. Accessed August 24, 2008. MSNBC launched a high definition simulcast feed on June 29, 2009. Notable personalities on the network include ''

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'' co-hosts

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and

Mika Brzezinski Mika Emilie Leonia Brzezinski Scarborough (; pl, Brzezińska; born May 2, 1967) is an American talk show host, liberal political commentator, and author who currently co-hosts MSNBC's weekday morning broadcast show ''Morning Joe''. She was forme ...

, daytime anchors

Chuck Todd Charles David Todd (born April 8, 1972) is an American television journalist who is the 12th and current moderator of NBC's ''Meet the Press''. He also hosts ''Meet the Press Now'', its daily edition on NBC News Now and is the Political Directo ...

and

Andrea Mitchell Andrea Mitchell (born October 30, 1946) is an American television journalist, anchor and commentator for NBC News, based in Washington, D.C. She is NBC News' chief foreign affairs & chief Washington correspondent, reporting on the 2008 presid ...

, and evening commentators

Chris Hayes Christopher Loffredo Hayes (; born February 28, 1979) is an American political commentator, television news anchor, activist, and author. Hayes hosts '' All In with Chris Hayes'', a weekday news and opinion television show on MSNBC. Hayes also ...

and Rachel Maddow. The network was noted in the mid-2000s for its harsh criticism of then-President

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, most notably the "special comment" segment of former anchor

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's show, ''

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''. This, combined with accusations of support for then-President

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, have led to MSNBC being criticized for a liberal bias, a reputation it has increasingly embraced with its "Lean Forward" slogan (which it adopted in 2011) and open promotion of progressive and liberal ideas. This has led to MSNBC increasingly shifting towards centrism and establishment politics, displaying (subtly or otherwise) acts of hostility towards progressive politicians e.g. Sen. Bernard Sanders (a frontrunner in the 2020 democratic nominations). The channel had a spin-off called Shift. Established in 2014, it was an online-only channel through its website MSNBC.com. The programming schedule was less focused on politics than the main channel, built to be a divergence from it and is more tailored to a younger audience. Shift ceased operations without notice some time before 2018.

CNN

Cable News Network (CNN) launched on June 1, 1980, as the first cable channel devoted to news programming. The

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in 1991 catapulted CNN into the spotlight, largely because the channel was the only news outlet with the ability to communicate from inside

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during the initial hours of the American bombing campaign, with live reports from the

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by reporters

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and

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. Throughout the 1990s, CNN (which was at the time the only major cable news channel) became very influential, an influence later coined as the

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. CNN was the first cable news network to begin broadcasting in high definition in September 2007. Today, CNN's

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include

Wolf Blitzer Wolf Isaac Blitzer (born March 22, 1948) is an American journalist, television news anchor, and author who has been a CNN reporter since 1990, and who currently serves as one of the principal anchors at the network. He is the host of ''The Situa ...

Erin Burnett Erin Isabelle Burnett (born July 2, 1976) is an American news anchor, currently the anchor of ''Erin Burnett OutFront'' on CNN. She previously worked for CNBC as co-anchor of ''Squawk on the Street'' and the host of ''Street Signs''. Burnett has ...

, Anderson Cooper and

Jake Tapper Jacob Paul Tapper (born March 12, 1969) is an American journalist, author, and cartoonist. He is the lead Washington anchor for CNN, hosts the weekday television news show '' The Lead with Jake Tapper'', and co-hosts the Sunday morning public a ...

CNN spinoffs

In 1982, the

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(which would merge with

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in 1996) created a spin-off of CNN called CNN2, which was originally formatted to show the top news stories of the day on a 30-minute "wheel" schedule. The channel rebranded as CNN Headline News in 1983, before the network abandoned the CNN branding and changed its name to the

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HLN in 2008, following a shift from news programming towards a mix of news during the day and discussion programs and documentary series at night that began two years earlier. Turner founded

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in 1985, with a straight focus on international news stories compared to CNN, which featured an equal emphasis on U.S. and world news. CNN launched a special service on January 20, 1992, called CNN Airport Network which was available exclusively in United States airports; the service simulcast programs from CNN and HLN, but with inserts of information of interest to air travelers. CNN Airport Network shut down in 2020. CNN also operates a

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service, CNN en Español.

Turner Broadcasting also established two, now defunct networks. CNNfn, launched at the end of 1995, attempting to challenge

. It ceased operations after nine years on the air in December 2004. CNNSI, a partnership between CNN and

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, attempted to counter the rising success of

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in covering sports news. While the network was shut down, CNN and Sports Illustrated continue to maintain their partnership, with Sports Illustrated operating a sports section on CNN's website. An online offshoot,

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, operated for one month in April 2022 before it was aborted due to poor uptake.

Ratings

FNC has been number one among cable news audiences since supplanting CNN in 2002. Until the start of 2002, CNN was the number one cable news network in the ratings. Starting in 2013, a major ratings decline at MSNBC has pushed that network to fourth place in March 2015. FNC marked its 15th year as the highest-rated cable news channel in the same demographic, posting 2.8 million average total viewers in January 2017. MSNBC beat CNN in total primetime viewers, ranking sixth among all cable networks in January. CNN beat MSNBC, but trailed to the first place Fox News Channel, in total daytime viewers.

Minor news channels

Domestic news and opinion cable channels

Newsmax TV

Newsmax TV debuted June 15, 2014 as a television arm of

Newsmax Media Newsmax (Newsmax Media, Inc. or Newsmax.com, previously styled NewsMax) is an American right-wing to far-right cable news and digital media company founded by Christopher Ruddy on September 16, 1998. Newsmax Media divisions include its cable ...

, a media company better known for its magazine and website. The channel runs a mix of rolling news coverage in the afternoons, video simulcasts of

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programs, talk shows, and reruns of documentaries. Talent on the network includes

Howie Carr Howard Louis Carr Jr. (born January 17, 1952) is an American conservative radio talk-show host, political author, news reporter and award-winning writer. He hosts ''The Howie Carr Show'' originating from his studios in Wellesley, MA and broad ...

Wayne Allyn Root Wayne Allyn Root (born July 20, 1961) is an American conservative television and radio host, author, activist, conservative political commentator and conspiracy theorist. He is the host of two new television shows, daily at 7 PM ET on Lindell TV ...

Joe Pagliarulo Joseph John Pagliarulo (born August 1, 1966), also known on the air as Joe Pags, is an American nationally syndicated conservative television and radio talk show host. Biography Born in Amityville, New York, Pagliarulo later lived in nearby Cop ...

and Bill O'Reilly. Until mid-2016, it was distributed on both Dish Network and

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. The channel does have numerous local broadcasting affiliates. A live stream of the channel is also available for free online at NewsmaxTV.com, as well as YouTube. Newsmax TV is explicitly conservative in its lean, broadcasting many programs hosted by conservative media personalities including those largely abandoned by Fox News; it is positioned further to the right of Fox's editorial stance but not as far to the fringe as One America News Network. The network saw noticeable gains following the

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, beating out the business news networks, as conservatives showed increasing dissatisfaction with Fox News coverage of the election.

NewsNation

Nexstar Media Group's '' NewsNation'' is a news channel that replaced general entertainment channel

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(itself the successor to the superstation feed of WGN-TV in

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) on March 1, 2021. The ''NewsNation'' brand was introduced for a prime time news block on WGN on September 1, 2020, six months before the scheduled rebranding of the channel as a whole. NewsNation's focus intends to be non-ideological, using its extensive network of local newsrooms from television stations Nexstar owns and/or operates across the United States. Talent on the network includes

Dan Abrams Daniel Abrams (born May 20, 1966) is an American media entrepreneur, television host, legal commentator, and author. He is currently the host of the prime-time show ''Dan Abrams Live'' on NewsNation, ''On Patrol: Live'' on Reelz and ''The Dan Ab ...

Ashleigh Banfield Ashleigh Dennistoun Banfield (born December 29, 1967) is a Canadian- American journalist and host of ''Banfield'' on the NewsNation network. She is a former host of ''Legal View with Ashleigh Banfield'' and ''Early Start'' on CNN. Education ...

and

Chris Cuomo Christopher Cuomo ( ; born August 9, 1970) is a television journalist anchor at NewsNation, based in New York City. He has previously been the ABC News chief law and justice correspondent and the co-anchor for ABC's ''20/20'', news anchor for ...

. While Nexstar Media Group's CEO has stated the goal is to transition NewsNation into a 24-hour news and talk channel by 2023, news programming is currently limited to the evening and early overnight hours, as well as special coverage during the day, due to

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contracts dating to its time as WGN that must be exhausted.

Blaze TV

Blaze TV is a news and opinion network operated by Blaze Media, a joint venture between

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and Glenn Beck's

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. It began September 12, 2012 as GBTV, initially controlled solely by Beck, and formed the joint venture December 3, 2018, taking on the programming of CRTV, Conservative Review's subscription video service that had launched in October 2016. Blaze TV is explicitly

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in perspective, with popular hosts on the network including Beck,

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, Pat Gray, Steve Deace, Steven Crowder and

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. Blaze TV is available via Dish Network and Verizon FiOS, various smaller cable providers, and through subscription

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Free Speech TV

Free Speech TV (FSTV) is a national, independent, progressive news network that reaches more than 40 million television households in the United States. The network brands itself as "the alternative to television networks owned by billionaires, governments and corporations." It was launched in 1995 and is owned and operated by Public Communicators Incorporated, a 501(c)3 non-profit, tax-exempt organization founded in 1974. Distributed principally by Dish Network, DirecTV, and the network's live stream at freespeech.org and on Roku, Free Speech TV has run commercial free since 1995 with support from viewers and foundations. The network claims to "amplify underrepresented voices and those working on the front lines of social, economic and environmental justice," bringing viewers an array of daily news programs, independent documentaries and special events coverage. In practice, the network's political leanings represent a left-wing perspective, with several

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hosts having time slots on the network and the network simulcasting ''

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'' with longtime progressive radio network Pacifica.

RFD-TV

RFD-TV (Rural Free Delivery Television) is a rural-oriented television network independently owned and operated by Patrick Gottsch, through his company Rural Media Group. The majority of its daytime weekday programming is devoted to news coverage, including outside-produced newscasts such as '' U.S. Farm Report'', ''

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'' and '' This Week in Agribusiness'', the network's nightly ''Rural Evening News'', and a five-hour rolling news coverage block centered on agricultural commodities coverage with news and weather. RFD-TV is available through both national satellite providers, on some cable outlets, and through a paywalled Internet stream.

Over-the-Air and Internet Protocol-only channels

NewsNet

NewsNet is based in

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at WMNN-LD, a local all-news television outlet, and is majority owned by Manoj Bhargava, the creator of 5-hour Energy shots. The network launched nationally on 18 affiliates with test programming in late December 2018, with the full launch took place on January 1, 2019. NewsNet follows a traditional rolling news clock with no opinion programming. It is available, in addition to its terrestrial affiliate base, as a free channel on streaming platforms.

Newsy

Newsy began in 2008 as a syndication service providing news videos to mobile and Web users. It was acquired by The E. W. Scripps Company, an owner of local television stations, in 2014 and transformed into its current form, a linear channel devoted to rolling news coverage and short-form videos. Originally distributed solely via over-the-top platforms, Newsy was offered to cable outlets in late 2017.

One America News Network

One America News Network (OANN) was launched in the summer of 2013 by Herring Networks, initially under the cooperation of ''The Washington Times''. In 2019, OAN said that it reached 35 million homes. Its primary outlet was through

, which distributed the channel through its namesake satellite service and U-verse fiber-optic system; DirecTV provided an estimated 90% of the network's revenue until the company announced its intent to drop OANN in April 2022. Verizon Fios, the largest carrier outside of DirecTV to carry the network, followed suit in dropping OANN in July. Its primary method of distribution since the Fios discontinuation has been through its free platform, OAN Plus, made available through digital subchannels. The channel targets a Conservatism in the United States, conservative audience. Initially offering a combination of conservative opinion content and non-ideologically driven news content from its launch until 2016, the channel shifted to shilling for Donald Trump during and after his Presidency of Donald Trump, presidency. Its prime time political talk shows have a conservative perspective, and the channel regularly features pro-Trump stories. The channel described itself as one of the "greatest supporters" of Trump. The channel has been noted for promoting falsehoods and conspiracy theories.

InfoWars

InfoWars began its existence in 1999 as the online outlet for conspiracy theorist and radio host Alex Jones. It began carrying a live video feed of Jones's show in the 2010s and expanded to hire other hosts in the same era. InfoWars originally was positioned as an extreme libertarianism, libertarian ideology and associated itself with alt-right figures in the 2010s. (during the 2000s Jones frequently accused the George W. Bush Administration of numerous conspiracy theories including accusations that they had 9/11 conspiracy theories, orchestrated the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and in 2008 was a backer of Ron Paul presidential campaign, 2008, Ron Paul's presidential campaign; it backed Donald Trump in 2016.) Its hosts and contributors include Jones, Paul Joseph Watson, Mike Cernovich, Roger Stone, and Jerome Corsi. Most satellite and cable providers have refused to carry InfoWars, and most social media outlets blacklisting, blacklisted and deplatforming, deplatformed the outlet in 2018. The video feed is available through the InfoWars web site and a limited number of terrestrial affiliates.

Foreign cable news networks with U.S. operations

Al Jazeera English

Al Jazeera English (AJE) is Al Jazeera Media Network's English language international news channel. It was the first English-language news channel to be headquartered in the Middle East. Instead of being run centrally, news management rotates between broadcasting centres in Doha and London. The channel, however, has poor penetration in the American market, where it has been carried by only one satellite service and a small number of cable networks. Al Jazeera English later began a campaign to enter the North American market, including a dedicated website. It became available to some cable subscribers in New York in August 2011, having previously been available as an option for some viewers in Washington, D.C., Ohio and Los Angeles. The channel primarily reaches the United States via its live online streaming. It is readily available on most major Canadian television providers including Rogers and Bell Satellite TV after the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission approved the channel for distribution in Canada on 26 November 2009. In 2013, Al Aazeera Media Network bought Current TV and created

which was based out of New York City and aimed directly at the American market. The channel while having decent carriage on American satellite and cable services was closed in 2017 after sustaining large financial losses for the network. The channel may also be viewed online. It recommends online viewing at its own website or at its channel on YouTube.

BBC World News

BBC World News is the BBC's international news and current affairs television channel. While the channel does not specifically target the U.S., the BBC has a bureau in Washington, DC, Washington, D.C., and produces two programs that cover U.S. news and politics: ''BBC World News America'' and ''BBC News with Katty and Christian''. These shows are also broadcast on public television stations, as well as half-hour ''BBC World News'' bulletins. BBC World News has covered both U.S. presidential and midterm elections results. The BBC produces weather forecasts for the U.S. and Canada and runs advertisements on the U.S. feed, as foreign broadcasts are not covered by the Television licensing in the United Kingdom, United Kingdom television license. The channel is carried on Cablevision, Comcast, Spectrum, Verizon FiOS, DirecTV, and AT&T U-Verse, as well as internet TV providers YouTube TV and Sling TV. A 2018 survey for Research Intelligencer by Brand Keys found that the BBC was the most trusted TV news brand among American viewers, beating out Fox News and PBS.

CGTN America

CGTN America is the American division of China Global Television Network, the English-language news channel run by Chinese state broadcaster China Central Television. It is based in Washington, DC, Washington, D.C. and manages bureaus across North America, North and South America. The service launched in 2012 as CCTV America and employs a mix of United States, American, international and People's Republic of China, Chinese journalists and produces Americas-based programming with a focus on Asia for CGTN (TV channel), CGTN. The channel is carried on DirecTV, Dish Network, AT&T U-Verse and smaller carriers and live streams via its website and Livestream. CGTN has been Foreign Agents Registration Act, registered as a foreign agent since 2018 and designated a foreign mission since 2020, which restricts the service's operations in the United States.

CNC World

CNC World is an English-language network majority owned by Xinhua News Agency, Xinhua, the Chinese state news agency. It has a more explicit propaganda aim than CGTN and is closely intertwined with the Chinese Communist Party. Its U.S. operations are based in New York City. The channel is available through digital subchannels and a live stream on the Internet. CNC World has been Foreign Agents Registration Act, registered as a foreign agent since 2018 and designated a foreign mission since 2020, which restricts the service's operations in the United States.

i24News

i24NEWS is an English language international news television channel that is owned by Altice USA. It is the English version of i24NEWS, a news service based in Israel and operated as a joint venture by Israel's two most prominent commercial broadcasters. The network began broadcasting in the US on February 13, 2017. It is live from 6-10 p.m. Eastern Time and at other times broadcasts from Israel. Live programming is broadcast from Times Square in New York with an additional bureau in Washington, D.C. The channel uses resources from i24's main Jaffa headquarters. Talent includes David Shuster who is also the managing editor, Michelle Makori, and Dan Raviv. The channel acquired many of its debut behind-the-scenes talent from the former

. The channel is carried on Altice USA-owned Optimum and Suddenlink cable systems and Charter Spectrum. The channel live streams via its website.

NTD

NTD is the English language arm of New Tang Dynasty Television, a media outlet with ties to the Falun Gong, a Chinese expatriate new religious movement also responsible for ''The Epoch Times'' newspaper. Its American operations are based in New York City, with production in English, Chinese, Vietnamese, Japanese, Korean and Russian languages. In contrast to the state-backed CGTN and CNC World, NTD's editorial stance is explicitly anti-Communist, critical of the ruling clique in the People's Republic of China, and supportive of right-wing policies. It is available on select cable outlets, on free-to-air C band satellite, and through a live stream on the Internet.

RT

RT (TV network), Russia Today (branded on air as RT) is an official arm of the Russian Federation, launched in 2007. RT has been Foreign Agents Registration Act, registered as a foreign agent since November 2017. From 2010 until 2022, the service had an American cut in channel called RT America (also branded on air as RT) which broadcast content from both the international and RT UK, United Kingdom editions of RT in addition to original programming from its American studios. RT's American programming took an alternative and purposely contrarian approach compared to most American news outlets, intended to sow "chaos [that the Government of Russia, Kremlin] can exploit." Talent on the network included hosts Larry King, Ed Schultz, Dennis Miller, Lee Camp (comedian), Lee Camp, Jesse Ventura, Alex Salmond and Mike Papantonio. It was available nationally on Dish Network and DirecTV and regionally on Charter Spectrum and other cable providers, and through a limited number of terrestrial affiliates that carried RT on digital subchannels. Additionally, RT America was made available through several streaming apps across many different platforms such as Roku and Android TV as well as several Blu-ray players and smart TVs. The channel's live stream was also available free on RT's website. In 2022, the network was removed from cable providers as well as

in response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian invasion of Ukraine with production on the network suspended and live programing on both RT America and RT UK ceased by March 3, 2022.

Financial news

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CNBC

CNBC (originally an abbreviation for the Consumer News and Business Channel) was launched by NBC in 1989 after the purchase of Satellite Program Network, and merged with competitor

that same year. It is owned by the NBCUniversal News Group, a unit of the

Television Group division of NBCUniversal. CNBC is the widest distributed of the business channels with about 84.27% of carriage. The channel has many international spin-offs.

Bloomberg Television

CNBC gained a competitor in the financial news genre with Bloomberg Television, which was created in 1994 by Bloomberg L.P., led by former New York City Mayor of New York City, Mayor Michael Bloomberg. It is distributed worldwide through cable, satellite and internet providers, and is headquartered in New York. Bloomberg Television was unusual in that its Internet stream, one of the few television networks to continuously offer a video feed over the Internet since the 1990s, was free to the public; the feed was placed behind a soft paywall along with the rest of Bloomberg's Internet ventures in May 2018.

Fox Business Network

FBN is the sister business network to Fox News Channel. In October 2007, News Corporation launched its own financial news network called Fox Business Network (FBN); News Corporation CEO Rupert Murdoch stated his reason for launching the channel was that CNBC is too "negative towards business", and had promised to make FBN more "business friendly".

Cheddar

Cheddar was established in 2017 as an initially online-only channel that operated on a freemium model with some content free and others paywalled. It was acquired by Altice USA in 2019 and, after a two-year run in which several low-powered stations owned by DTV America carried the slot, began transitioning to cable systems that year. Cheddar targets a younger audience than the other business news channels.

Ratings

FBN's ratings were initially too low to be registered beyond Nielsen's margin of error; its highest viewership was estimated to be 202,000 viewers, during the 7:00 a.m. Eastern Time Zone, Eastern Time hour of ''Imus in the Morning's'' debut broadcast on the network in 2009. By October 2016, FBN had surpassed CNBC, as roughly a third of CNBC's viewership migrated to FBN over the course of a year, with both netting approximately 170,000 viewers. Bloomberg also does not subscribe to Nielsen and its ratings are assumed to be very low (however, its viewership was higher than CNBC's when Bloomberg's programming was simulcast on E! in the early morning hours, an arrangement that began in 2004 after USA Network ended its simulcast of the channel after ten years, and was discontinued altogether under E! in 2007). Currently, CNBC usually has between 200,000 and 400,000 viewers during the day. In 2000, CNBC had higher ratings than CNN during market hours. The viewership of business newscasts may be underestimated in part because much of its viewership comes from communal areas, most of which cannot be accurately measured by Nielsen and are thus not counted; for this reason, CNBC dropped its subscription to Nielsen in 2015. RFD-TV's average viewership, including for its financial market coverage as well as its non-news programming, is approximately 136,000 viewers.

Professional sports news

ESPNews

ESPN launched a 24-hour sports news channel named

on November 1, 1996, which is carried by most cable and satellite providers, although usually only on dedicated sports and information tiers. It airs news, highlights, press conferences and commentary by analysts all in relation to sports. ESPNews was also syndicated to regional sports networks as daytime filler programming and also often appears as blackout (broadcasting), blackout filler on ESPN or ESPN2 when those channels air a program unavailable in a certain geographic area. ESPNews scaled back its news-only format in 2013, after several years of ESPN expanding its flagship newscast, ''SportsCenter'', throughout the daytime hours on the main channel. ESPNews newscasts are now branded under the ''SportsCenter'' brand, while replays of ESPN2 talk programs typically air when ''SportsCenter'' airs on ESPN's main channel. At least one of the ESPN networks is usually carrying a ''SportsCenter'' broadcast at any given time, with the lone exceptions being particularly busy sports days in which all three networks (ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNEWS) are carrying sporting events and the network's ESPN Full Circle, multi-channel coverage of major sports events.

FS1

Fox Entertainment Group re-branded Speed Channel as Fox Sports 1, FS1, a sports channel carrying both analysis shows and live sports events, on August 13, 2013. The studio programs are usually pushed to its sister station, Fox Sports 2, FS2, when live sports are occurring during the broadcast. FS2 acts primarily as an overflow network for FS1, airing their studio programs when they cannot air on FS1 due to schedule conflicts, and also airs reruns of FS1 programming. However, FS2 does air live sports as well, most often from outside the United States. Fox Sports has, three times in its history, attempted to launch a national sportscast. The first two aired on Fox Sports Net: the ''National Sports Report'' from 1996 to 2002, and ''FSN Final Score, Final Score'' from 2006 to 2011. The third, ''Fox Sports Live'', aired on FS1 from the network's launch until 2017.

CBS Sports Network / CBS Sports HQ

CBS Sports Network was founded as ''College Sports TV''. It still maintains a primary focus on college sports, but has since been broadened to include general studio discussion shows, simulcasts of CBS Sports Radio talk shows, and some lower-end professional sports. On February 26, 2018, CBS Sports launched CBS Sports HQ, an Internet-only channel that serves as a 24-hour channel for sports news, highlights and discussion programs, without any live sports.

College sports news

ESPNU

ESPNU is a 24-hour sports news network dedicated to college sports. ESPN airs a customized version of SportsCenter, SportsCenter U, covering college sports, as well as documentaries about college teams and players.

Big Ten Network

The Big Ten Network, whose origins can be traced back to '03, airs a large amount of original sports programming, including a program similar to SportsCenter called Big Ten Tonight, as well as live sports. Unlike other college sports channels, such as ESPNU or BTN's sister station Fox College Sports, BTN covers the Big Ten Conference exclusively.

Fox College Sports

Fox College Sports (FCS) airs an extremely large amount of live sports. Because Fox Sports has so many rights to so many college sporting events, FCS networks are split by region, similar to Fox Sports.

Longhorn Network

Launched in 2011 as a joint venture between ESPN & the Texas Longhorns, the Longhorn Network airs over 20 different live sports, as well as sports news & analysis.

SEC Network

Three years after the launch of the Longhorn Network, ESPN entered a similard joint venture with the Southeastern Conference, also known as the SEC. While it does broadcast over 20 different SEC sports, it also airs analysis of upcoming games as well as a sports talk show. Some SEC Network football games are simulcast on WDCW.

Pac-12 Network

The Pac-12 Network covers every sport in the PAC-12 as well as every team in the conference, airing nearly 900 live events a year. With the vast number of events in the PAC-12, the Pac-12 Network has been split into six separate regional channels.

ACC Network

The ACC Network covers every sport in the ACC as well as every team in the conference. The network features films and mini documentaries on the ACC sports teams. The ACC Network also airs games from the ACC schools.

Weather news

The Weather Channel

The Weather Channel is the market leader in news regarding weather forecasting and the most widely distributed cable network in the United States. It was launched in August 1982, under the ownership of Landmark Media Enterprises, Landmark Communications (which sold the network to a joint venture of

, Blackstone Group and Bain Capital in 2008; these parties, in turn, split the channel, with the non-broadcast assets going to IBM in 2016 and the channel itself going to Byron Allen's Entertainment Studios in 2018). Originally, the channel was devoted entirely to weather forecasts and news coverage (with Local on the 8s, computer-generated local forecasts inserted through each individual cable provider every ten minutes, and previously at randomized time intervals, ten times an hour), but since 2001, the network has increasingly cut back its weather coverage in favor of reality television and documentary series (this reliance on such programs has led to carriage disputes between Dish Network and

in the early 2010s, the latter resulting in the channel's first provider defection, citing subscriber complaints regarding The Weather Channel's shift away from forecast programs). Most of the channel's morning and at least part of its afternoon lineup remains devoted to weather news coverage and national forecasts. Since the 2000s, there have been several other attempts to launch weather-centric television channels.

AccuWeather

The Local AccuWeather Channel

The Local AccuWeather Channel was distributed mainly as a digital subchannel on various terrestrial television outlets. Content on local versions of The Local AccuWeather Channel vary widely, ranging from a mix of local and national AccuWeather content (such as WFAA) to all-local, automated outlets (such as WFMZ-TV). Now largely deprecated, it is unknown as of January 2020 (when WFAA dropped its affiliation) whether any affiliates still carry the national AccuWeather Channel over the air. In 2021, the service was quietly discontinued in favor of AccuWeather Now, which is also provided free-to-consumer, but through advertising-supported over-the-top providers instead of individual terrestrial affiliates.

AccuWeather Network

AccuWeather Network is a national version of the AccuWeather channel. The network broadcasts pre-recorded national and regional weather forecasts, analysis of ongoing weather events, and weather-related news, along with local weather segments for mostly the Northeastern United States. It is currently on Verizon FIOS and

WeatherNation TV

WeatherNation TV, originally known as The Weather Cast, also uses this model (having taken the place of The Local AccuWeather Channel as the affiliation of certain stations' weather channels since 2013), although it also provides a feed directly to cable providers and directly to consumers through mobile and smart-TV apps. A national feed is available on Dish Network.

Fox Weather

Fox Weather, a subsidiary of Fox Corporation, launched in late 2021 as an Internet feed, with intent to launch as a digital subchannel on Fox owned-and-operated stations in early 2022.

NBC Weather Plus

Before NBC and its partners acquired The Weather Channel, NBCUniversal operated NBC Weather Plus, a digital multicast service that operated from 2004 to 2008 (continuing thereafter as a locally programmed service using Weather Plus' graphics system called NBC Plus).

References

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"Big Three" news channels

Fox News Channel

MSNBC

CNN

CNN spinoffs

Ratings

Minor news channels

Domestic news and opinion cable channels

Newsmax TV

NewsNation

Blaze TV

Free Speech TV

RFD-TV

Over-the-Air and Internet Protocol-only channels

NewsNet

Newsy

One America News Network

InfoWars

Foreign cable news networks with U.S. operations

Al Jazeera English

BBC World News

CGTN America

CNC World

i24News

NTD

RT

Financial news

CNBC

Bloomberg Television

Fox Business Network

Cheddar

Ratings

Professional sports news

ESPNews

FS1

CBS Sports Network / CBS Sports HQ

College sports news

ESPNU

Big Ten Network

Fox College Sports

Longhorn Network

SEC Network

Pac-12 Network

ACC Network

Weather news

The Weather Channel

AccuWeather

The Local AccuWeather Channel

AccuWeather Network

WeatherNation TV

Fox Weather

NBC Weather Plus

See also

References