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(Jan. 06, 1992) Targeting the Audience Abroad
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
Jan. 06, 1992 Man of the Year:Ted Turner
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MAN OF THE YEAR, Page 32
TED TURNER
Targeting the Audience Abroad
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<p> CNN President Tom Johnson's top priority has been to
strengthen the network's overseas channel. Currently, CNN
International is a mix of domestic CNN, Headline News (its news-
radio-like companion service) and 3 1/2 hours a day of original
fare aimed at the audience abroad. The channel broadcast most of
the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill hearings but presented only half-
hour daily summations of the Smith rape trial. Many overseas
viewers, though glued to CNN during major events, find its day-
to-day programming parochial and its international coverage thin.
Viewers in some parts of Asia have been turning instead to the
BBC's new 24-hour news channel.
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<p> Partly in response to that competitive threat, Johnson has
speeded up efforts to improve CNN's international reporting and
programming. Bureaus in Amman, Rio de Janeiro and New Delhi have
just been opened; another, in Bangkok, will be in operation by
March, giving CNN a total of 16 foreign bureaus, along with
eight bureaus in the U.S. Two more hours of original programming
will be added to CNN International's daily schedule by mid-1992.
In addition, a growing amount of CNN's domestic fare (like World
Report, a collection of stories by foreign broadcasters) seems
geared as much to the international audience as to the domestic
one. Viewers and advertisers are responding: this year CNN
International will turn its first profit.
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