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28 unusual facts about CNN


2001 in Irish television

11 September – Coverage from CNN, the American cable news channel, is first aired on TV3 News as events from the United States are broadcast around the world following the September 11 attacks.

2006 O'Hare International Airport UFO sighting

The Chicago O'Hare airport UFO story was picked up by various major mainstream media groups such as CNN, CBS, MSNBC, Fox News, The Chicago Tribune, and NPR.

Alex Kronemer

Kronemer has made several appearances as a CNN commentator most notably during the network's historic live coverage of Hajj in 1998, which was broadcast to 400 million viewers.

Black World Wide Web protest

The campaign was noted by major media such as the CNN, TIME magazine and The New York Times.

Carolyne Barry

Barry has been featured as a teaching authority in the The Hollywood Reporter, L.A. Reader, The Examiner, as well as on CNN, KHJ (AM), KTTV and numerous TV and Radio talk shows throughout the country.

Council for National Security

Anonymous proxy servers through which Thai internet users could access a blocked webpage were also blocked, as were websites from BBC 1, BBC 2, CNN, Yahoo News, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The Age, Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, and Yale University Press containing articles about King Bhumibol Adulyadej.

Death of Neda Agha-Soltan

Ezzatollah Zarghami, the head of Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, told the press on 4 July 2009 that the videos of Nedā's death were all made by BBC and CNN.

Dumas, Arkansas

The local Dumas police stated on CNN that "the feed mill was the local employer and now it is gone".

Emily Frances

After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in communications and a minor in marketing from the Wharton School of Business, she joined the staff at CNN in Atlanta as a production assistant, and covered the Republican National Convention.

Harrison County, Mississippi

Harrison County has received coverage on CNN and other media regarding the beatings of inmates, and the death of inmate Jessie Lee Williams Jr., who died while in custody on Feb. 4, 2006, which have occurred in the Harrison County Jail in Gulfport, Mississippi.

Holly Springs, North Carolina

In 2007, it was ranked the 22nd best small town to live in, according to a CNNMoney.com evaluation.

Hypertag

Hypertag also integrates its systems with third party infrastructure providers such as in-store advertising display screen providers and has been used by brands such as O2, Vodafone, Peugeot and CNN, and has installed systems at visitor attractions owned by the Royal Institution and English Heritage.

Jennifer Openshaw

She has been a frequent television contributor to the Fox Business Network, CNBC, CNN, The Oprah Winfrey Show, and Good Morning America.

Kenny Bishop

He has been a regular performer on the Gaither Homecoming video series and radio program, and has performed on Nashville's Grand Ole Opry, Fox News, C-SPAN, CNN, and PBS.

Mass surveillance in China

The Wall Street Journal and CNN also said they had been the targets of cyber attacks from China.

Names of Burma

In spite of the usage by the US government, American news outlets including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The International Herald Tribune and CNN, and US-based international news agencies the Associated Press and Reuters have adopted the name "Myanmar".

No. 260 Squadron RAF

In May 2012, CNN reported a Polish oil company worker in Egypt discovered a crash-landed 260 Sqn P-40 aircraft presumably piloted by Flt Sgt Dennis Copping, who went missing on June 28, 1942 and was never heard from again.

Nuclear proliferation

In an interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour, Ahmadinejad said that Iran was "against 'nuclear apartheid,' which means some have the right to possess it, use the fuel, and then sell it to another country for 10 times its value. We're against that. We say clean energy is the right of all countries. But also it is the duty and the responsibility of all countries, including ours, to set up frameworks to stop the proliferation of it."

Paul Batista

Since 1991, Batista has regularly appeared as a guest commentator on legal subjects on Court TV, CNN, HLN and WNBC.

Robert Siciliano

Siciliano has appeared on United States-based television programming such as "The Today Show," "Anderson Cooper 360°", CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, CNBC, "Inside Edition," "Tyra Banks Show," "Sally Jesse Show," "Montel Williams," "Maury Povich Show," "Gayle King Show" and the "Howard Stern Show."

Slavery in Sudan

According to CNN, many groups in the United States have expressed concern about slavery and religious oppression in Sudan, putting pressure on the Bush administration to take action.

SpectorSoft

Spectorsoft products have been mentioned in many well known media outlets, including ZDNET, PC/Computing, Time, CNN, NBC Nightly News, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.

Stuart Rothenberg

In addition to his writing, he has been frequently featured in news broadcasts and worked with CNN as a political analyst for over ten years.

Telecommunications in Nauru

One station is government-owned and mainly rebroadcasts CNN and the other is a private sports network.

The Rebelution

Alex and Brett Harris have been featured nationally on MSNBC, CNN, NPR, and in The New York Times.

William R. Robinson

While scheduling a time for one of his clients to appear on CNN, Robinson decided to schedule a time for himself as well.

Yoshihiro Tsurumi

Shortly before the 2004 U.S. presidential election, Tsurumi appeared on various media outlets (such as CNN and Air America) and reported remembering Bush telling him that family friends had helped get him into the Texas Air National Guard.

Zorpia

Zorpia has been recognized by CNN, China Daily, the biggest English-language newspaper in China, and it has been featured in Phoenix Television's A Date with Luyu.


2012 Dnipropetrovsk explosions

Matthew Rojansky, on CNN, suggested several possible motivations for the attack, ranging from random acts of violence, or the work of gangs from Ukraine’s criminal underworld and endlessly feuding oligarchs, to international terrorism linked to al-Qa'eda, up to the eventual involvement of Russian secret services.

Abbi Tatton

Based in Washington, D.C., Tatton utilized innovative technologies to present the latest political, national and international news for CNN's afternoon program, The Situation Room, hosting the segment "The Situation Online".

Alex Linder

The ADL reports that he graduated with a bachelor's degree from Pomona College in Claremont, California, in 1988, then worked as a researcher for CNN on the Evans & Novak political show, and then at The American Spectator.

Alia Sabur

In June 2010 Sabur appeared on CNN and Fox News' Hannity to illustrate her idea, which BP considered as an option to help alleviate the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai

After 9/11, he took leave without pay from the World Bank and engaged in intensive interaction with the media, appearing regularly on PBS's NewsHour as well as BBC, CNN, US National Public Radio, other broadcasters, and writing for major newspapers.

Biomonitoring

The issue of exposure to environmental chemicals has received attention as a result of televised reports by Bill Moyers for PBS and Anderson Cooper for CNN's "Planet in Peril" series.

Buletin Malam

The newscast is a half-hour pre-midnight news program and it continues to be one of the strongest late night shows in Indonesian television industry, Buletin Malam was also carried by RCTI's then sister station SCTV and Indosiar was launhced by the international news programme's CNN World News was aired on CNN International a member of CNN (Cable News Network).

Chris Nonis

He shot to international prominence on the back of an interview on CNN, on the show Amanpour with CNN's Fred Pleitgen, as he defended Sri Lanka's stance on human rights violations accusations.

Dog Brothers

The group has appeared many times on national and international TV including FOX Files, the Fox Evening News, CNN, and more such as Time Warp, demonstrating strikes and blows as well as sparring.

Erick Erickson

On March 16, 2010, CNN announced the hiring of Erickson as a political contributor to John King, USA.

Evans Wadongo

His fellow inaugural recipients of this award were Sir Tim Berners Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web and Ted Turner, media mogul and founder of CNN.

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Evans Wadongo and his story have been featured on CNN, BBC, AFP, The New Yorker, China Central Television, Reuters, France 24, Discovery Channel, MBC South Korea, Deutsche Welle, German Radio, Russian State TV, Huffington Post among other international media channels.

Everybody Speaks Nonsenses II – Hot Pot

First broadcast in 2004 on cable television Chung T'ien Television (CtiTV), it has since gained prominence among Taiwanese viewers, and in January 2006 earned a mention by CNN's World Report on Taiwan-China relations.

Heart Support of America

It was listed as one of "America's worst charities" in a 2013 Tampa Bay Times/CNN/Center for Investigative Reporting report because of its fundraising and spending practices.

Indre Viskontas

Viskontas has appeared on several other television shows including The Oprah Winfrey Show, Entertainment Tonight, CNN, Access Hollywood, E!, and TV Guide.

Insight on the News

Soon after Insight's story, CNN reporter John Vause visited State Elementary School Menteng 01, a secular public school which Obama had attended for one year after attending a Roman Catholic school for three, and found that each student received two hours of religious instruction per week in his or her own faith.

Jim Spellman

Currently a CNN all-platform journalist, Spellman played guitar in the High Back Chairs and Julie Ocean and drums in Velocity Girl.

Joel Stern

He also has appeared on national business news programs, including CNN’s Moneyline and Wall Street Week, where he was a rotating panelist for 17 years.

Jon L. Mills

He has appeared on CNN's "Burden of Proof," Public Television's "Lehr Report," National Public Radio, ABC, BBC and other media.

Ken Jautz

He was named executive vice president of CNN-US in September 2010, and now reports to CNN Worldwide President Jeff Zucker.

Laura Mansfield

Mansfield frequently appears on a wide array of mainly-US networks such as CNN and CNN International, FoxNews, Fox News UK, Israel National Radio, BBC, and CBN as well as numerous radio stations across the US such as KGO Radio News in San Francisco, America at Night, WDEL, WFED, WTOP, the Laurie Roth Show, the Tom Bauerle Show, and the Carl Wigglesworth Show, as well as working for many unnamed Fortune 500 companies.

Lee H. Pappas

CNN, USA Today, dozens of magazines, newspapers and websites have run pieces with his comments and opinions on the world of consumer electronics and computers.

MafiaBoy

MafiaBoy was the Internet alias of Michael Demon Calce, a high school student from West Island, Quebec, who launched a series of highly publicized denial-of-service attacks in February 2000 against large commercial websites including Yahoo!, Fifa.com, Amazon.com, Dell, Inc., E*TRADE, eBay, and CNN.

Marla Malcolm Beck

Beck has appeared as a guest on CNBC, CNN and Fox Business News, and has also been a guest speaker for Women's Wear Daily Beauty Innovation Forum.

Mary Alice Williams

As one of the primary architects behind the design of the first worldwide television network, Williams oversaw the construction of CNN’s New York Bureau at the World Trade Center prior to the launch of Cable News network (CNN) in 1980.

Media Research Center

BMI's advisory board includes such well-known individuals as economists Walter Williams and Bruce Bartlett, as well as former CNN anchor David Goodnow.

Nancy Glass

When not overseeing her company, Nancy Glass Productions, Glass has appeared as a guest or guest-host on such programs as The Daily Show, The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch, CNN Larry King Live, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, CBS Morning News, Hollywood Squares, Court TV, MSNBC and as a host on WOR-radio in New York City.

Naveen Selvadurai

He has been on Fox Business Network, and CNN's special by Fareed Zakaria, "Getting American Back to #1," talking about how he became the person that he is today.

Ooredoo

Ooredoo introduced DVB-H service to the Middle East, delivering real-time “Mobile TV broadcast” that captures up to 13 channels like Al-Jazeera, CNN, and CNBC through mobile handsets.

Planet in Peril

CNN's Anderson Cooper, Sanjay Gupta and Animal Planet's Jeff Corwin investigate the current state of our planet, focusing on four major areas: global warming, overpopulation, deforestation and species loss.

Public Education Center

Before joining the National Security News Service in 1991, he worked for CNN’s Special Assignment Unit, the Wilmington News Journal, and prominent journalist Jack Anderson.

Rajdeep Sardesai

He is married to Sagarika Ghose, a journalist and fellow senior editor and anchor at CNN-IBN, since 1994.

Regina Lewis

She first appeared on national TV in 1999 on the CBS Early Show, later assuming a full-time role as an expert commentator for several national network and cable programs, including Today, The View, ABC World News This Morning, Fox News Channel, and CNN Headline News.

Rubel Shelly

An infamous example of this was when Nancy Grace of CNN asked Shelly on national television whether or not the Church of Christ is a cult.

Sara Sidner

Currently, she is an international correspondent for CNN, based in New Delhi.

Steve Brozak

Mr. Brozak is frequently interviewed and quoted by such media sources as the Associated Press, ABC, Barron's, Bloomberg, CNN, Forbes, Dow Jones, Reuters, SmartMoney, TheStreet.com, and The Wall Street Journal.

StudentLoanJustice.org

StudentLoanJustice.org or its members have been covered by a number of newspapers, radio, and television shows, including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, National Public Radio, The Washington Post, The National Review, The Wall Street Journal, Public Broadcasting System, Fortune Magazine, Businessweek, Fox Television, CNN, CBS News, Democracy Now!, The Chicago Sun-Times, and others.

The Mall at Steamtown

Its opening in 1993 was nationally televised on CNN and attended by then-Pennsylvania Governor Robert P. Casey, Sr., who was instrumental in securing funding for and initiating development of the mall.

The Week That Wasn't

The Week That Wasn't is an Indian satirical late night television programme hosted by Cyrus Broacha and shown on the CNN-IBN channel.

Treatment Action Campaign

Heywood was a panelist in a plenary session co-chaired by CNN's Sanjay Gupta entitled "Time to Deliver: The Price of Inaction".

United Press International Radio Network

Out of that merger came an audio service that at its peak served more than a thousand U.S. radio stations and many foreign clients, including other networks such as NPR, RKO, Britain's Independent Radio News and even CNN in its early years when CNN, then headed by former UPI and UPTN executives Reese Schonfeld and Burt Reinhardt, effectively reunited UPI audio with UPITN video.

Virtual incumbent

John Fund described Obama as the "quasi-incumbent" on CNN Late Edition on November 2, 2008, by which he also meant that the election had become "referendum on Barack Obama".

VITAC

The company captions over 220,000 hours of programming each year for over 1400 customers, including cable channels CNN and MSNBC, cable network Discovery Communications, syndicated and cable productions for Fox and CBS Television Distribution, off-network productions for NBCUniversal and Warner Bros..

Vivacom

In addition to the three main stations, the Bulgarian National TV (BNT), bTV and Nova Televizia, the package includes bTV Cinema, bTV Action, bTV Comedy, Fox Life, Diema, CNN, Euronews, DW; the sports channels Eurosport and RING.bg; Fiesta TV, Animal Planet; the musical channels MAD, City TV, T rock, Planeta Folk, Fen TV, Balkanika; and the children's channels Е-KIDS and Super 7, among others.

Von Steuben Metropolitan Science Center

Ash-har Quraishi, broadcast journalist; formerly CNN's bureau chief in Islamabad.

Ziad Asali

He has provided television commentary and interviews for CNN, CBS, Charlie Rose, MSNBC, Fox News, BBC, C-SPAN, Voice of America and numerous syndicated cable programs.