. for the song by weird al yankovic see headline news song . cnn headline news redirects here . for the philippine morning newscast see cnn philippines headline news . cnn2 redirects here . for the gene see cnn2 gene . hln launched january 1 1982 1982 01 01 34 years ago owned by cable news network inc. turner broadcasting system inc. time warner picture format 1080i hdtv hd feed downgraded to letterboxed 480i for sdtv sets slogan news and views country united states language english broadcast area united states canada latin america the caribbean asia middle east north africa australia some hotels only headquarters cnn center atlanta georgia formerly called cnn2 1982 1983 headline news 1983 1997 cnn headline news 1997 2007 hln headline news 2007 2008 sister channel s cnn cnn ibn cnn airport network cnn arabic cnn en espa ol cnn international cnn chile cnn t rk cnn indonesia n tv tnt turner classic movies cartoon network boomerang trutv tbs cnnj cnn philippines the cw hbo cinemax wpch tv website www.hlntv.com availability terrestrial audio available via some radio stations consult your local station for availability satellite directv channel 204 hd sd dish network channel 202 shaw direct canada channel 502 cignal digital tv channel tba bein middle east and north africa channel 146 hd cable verizon fios channel 101 1542 currently sd only in house washington d.c. channel 23 available on most other u.s. cable systems consult your local cable provider for channel availability starhub tv singapore channel 712 skycable philippines channel 110 digital cablelink philippines channel 18 destiny cable philippines channel 100 analog coming soon channel 110 digital cable tv hong kong hong kong channel 69 wave broadband channel 37 macau cable tv macau channel 809 satellite radio sirius channel 116 xm channel 123 iptv now tv hong kong channel 317 bell fibe tv canada channel 1508 hd channel 508 sd at & t u verse channel 1203 hd channel 203 sd mio tv singapore channel 169 sd zazeen canada channel 45 hd channel 50 sd vmedia canada channel 80 sd streaming media go.cnn.com watch live us cable subscribers only sling tv internet protocol television playstation vue internet protocol television hln formerly headline news is an american basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by the turner broadcasting system division of time warner . the channel is a spin off of the u.s. cable news network . the channel was originally structured to feature a tightly formatted 30 minute newscast that was rebroadcast each half hour 24 hours a day with freshly updated information that briefly covered various areas of interest such as national news sports entertainment weather and business . since 2005 however its format has increasingly shifted to long form tabloid opinion crime and entertainment news related programming . in 2014 the network further re focused with an emphasis on social media . as of july 2015 hln is available to approximately 97 million american households 83.4 % of households with at least one television set in the united states making it the most distributed american cable network . 1 since the mid 2000s hln has been available internationally on cable and satellite in parts of asia the caribbean south america middle east and north africa contents 1 history 1.1 launch 1.2 george h. w. bush death hoax 1.3 jukebox effect 1.4 a new look and format changes 1.5 news and views 1.6 2013 2015 going social 1.7 2016 present 2 distribution 2.1 international 3 high definition 4 programming 5 notable on air staff 5.1 anchors and reporters 5.2 former anchors and reporters 6 references 7 external links history edit launch edit the channel originally launched as cnn2 on january 1 1982 . 2 3 in january of the following year it was renamed headline news . from around that point until 1992 the channel was often abbreviated as hn the channel would later incorporate a die cut hn block design within the original variant of its third logo when it was introduced in 1989 before it was fully supplanted by the wordmark that accompanied it in 1992 which was later italicized . originally the channel s programming was formatted around the idea that a viewer could tune in at any time of day or night instead of having to wait for the merely once or twice daily national news segments in local newscasts or morning or evening network news programs and receive up to date information on the top national and international stories in just 30 minutes . this headline news wheel format featured general news during the top 00 and bottom 30 of the hour ; dollars and sense business and personal finance reports at 15 and 45 minutes past each hour ; sports scores and headlines branded as headline sports at 20 and 50 minutes past the hour ; and lifestyle reports at 25 and 55 minutes past the hour . the 25 55 lifestyle segment was designed to allow local cable systems the option of pre empting it with a local headline capsule from an associated regional cable news channel or a local television station . another regular feature the hollywood minute was often fitted in after the headline sports segment . in the channel s early years a two minute recap of the hour s top stories the cnn headlines would run after the sports segment . its longest serving news anchor was chuck roberts who retired on july 30 2010 after a 28 year career with the network . 4 during its first year headline news had a competitor in the form of abc group w s satellite news channel which operated from june 21 1982 to october 27 1983 . snc s satellite slot was then purchased by ted turner to expand headline news reach further into additional homes . jon petrovich was hired in the mid 1980s by turner to lead headline news . 5 in 1990 headline news developed local edition a six minute long local newscast whose content was produced by a local broadcast station in the participating market airing at the end of each half hour of headline news rolling news block . 6 the channel included the cnn branding in its name intermittently for most of its history before being incorporated on a regular basis from 1997 to 2007 though an alternate logo without the cnn logo was used for news broadcasts through 2001 . in 1989 headline news introduced a ticker that appeared at the lower one third of the screen except during commercial breaks which initially showed stock market data with indexes of the major stock exchanges including the dow jones industrial average nasdaq and the s & p 500 and quotes for major companies during trading hours which were updated on a 15 minute delay . in 1992 the channel added the headline news sportsticker which showed sports scores and schedules for the day s upcoming games creating the first continuous news ticker on television . the redesign resulted in video of the rolling newscasts becoming pillarboxed with blue bars on the left and right wings of the screen matching the ticker s original coloring before it returned to a full screen format with the ticker becoming a translucent black background overlaid on the lower third of the video as part of a 1994 update to the channel s graphics package that also added weather forecasts for select major u.s. cities to the ticker ; the ticker itself would add the headline news logo and as such would no longer be seen alongside the copyright date in the closing . george h. w. bush death hoax edit on january 8 1992 headline news almost became the victim of a hoax . when president george h. w. bush fainted at a state dinner in tokyo japan a person claiming to be the president s physician called into the channel s atlanta headquarters and claimed that bush had died . at 9 45 a.m. anchor don harrison prepared to break the story stating this just in to cnn headline news and we say right off the bat we have not confirmed this through any other sources ... executive producer roger bahre who was off camera immediately yelled no stop 7 after glancing away momentarily harrison continued we are now getting a correction . we will not give you that story . it was regarding some rather tragic news involving president bush but updating that story president bush is reported to be resting comfortably . it turned out that an idaho man james edward smith called cnn posing as the president s physician . a cnn employee entered the information into a centralized computer used by both cnn and headline news and it nearly got out on the air before it could be verified . smith was subsequently questioned by the secret service and hospitalized at a private medical facility for evaluation . 8 jukebox effect edit 1997 2001 cnn headline news logo on a table in the food court at cnn center . this table has since been removed . in 1992 headline news pioneered the use of a digital video jukebox to recycle segments of one newscast seamlessly into another . the new technology reduced the number of staffers needed by enabling news segments to be re used throughout an entire day previously anchors read the same stories repeatedly hour after hour with the second 15 minutes of each half hour in the wheel being broadcast on videotape every third and fourth hour . this resulted in the layoffs of part of its staff including such stalwart anchors as lyn vaughn david goodnow and bob losure all of whom had been with headline news for over 10 years . a new look and format changes edit the channel became noted for its distinct screen that was introduced in august 2001 as part of an extensive imaging overhaul of cnn headline news which included the introduction of a new simplified wordmark logo that incorporated the cnn brand full time in which the news anchor or news footage appears in a sort of visual window surrounded by constantly changing text such as breaking news sports scores stock market reports and weather updates . due to the growing competition from fox news channel and msnbc in 2003 time warner revamped cnn headline news with a more flexible format featuring live reports and utilizing two anchors to co host the channel s rolling news coverage . headline prime title card . in 2005 the channel substantially reduced the amount of on screen information following much scrutiny and lampooning of their format including usa today calling their screen a jumbled mess . the new look would consist of a yellow bar which added sports scores and stock quotes to the basic ticker of news headlines . the channel also began a shift away from its rolling news coverage throughout primetime with the introduction of longer personality based programs under the umbrella title headline prime that february . the channel s new programs included showbiz tonight a daily entertainment news show hosted by a. j. hammer which ran until november 2013 ; an eponymous legal news and discussion program hosted by nancy grace ; and a general national news program titled prime news tonight hosted by mike galanos . this move had the unintended consequence of eliminating the main difference between cnn headline news and cnn during primetime since cnn had always broadcast a variety of news related programs such as documentaries and personality based shows like larry king live . additional programming changes took place with the introduction of news to me a program featuring only user generated content in may of that year a daily broadcast of the previous evening s larry king live in june and a shift towards the channel s rolling news coverage being handled by a single anchor deviating from the channel s traditional dual anchor format that