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- <text>
- <title>
- (Jan. 06, 1992) Targeting the Audience Abroad
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Jan. 06, 1992 Man of the Year:Ted Turner
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- MAN OF THE YEAR, Page 32
- TED TURNER
- Targeting the Audience Abroad
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <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.
- </p>
- <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.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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