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CNN
a day ago
- Business
- CNN
CNN'S DOMESTIC FAST CHANNEL, CNN HEADLINES, DEBUTS NEW PROGRAMMING SCHEDULE
August 18th, 2025 Original, Curated Feed Includes Live News and Can't-Miss Moments ATLANTA, GA – (AUGUST 18, 2025) – Today, CNN unveiled the new, refreshed programming schedule for CNN Headlines, the network's domestic FAST channel. CNN Headlines is an original, curated news feed covering major stories across business, politics, entertainment, culture, and international, showcasing the buzziest and most impactful events of the day. Featuring live news and roundups of can't-miss moments, Headlines taps into a local, on-the-ground perspective in the way only CNN can. The new shows include CNN Headline Express , a live news program that catches audiences up on the latest national and international news, along with sports, entertainment, business, and culture, hosted by anchor Brad Smith, who joined CNN in July. ICYMI (In Case You Missed It) features the most newsworthy and compelling stories from CNN U.S. programming, and American Pulse is an hour showcasing reporting from the vast network of CNN affiliates across the country. 'The relaunch of CNN Headlines is vital to our distribution and investment strategy, and I'm proud of how hard our teams across CNN have worked to innovate in this space,' said Eric Sherling, Executive Vice President of U.S. Programming for CNN Worldwide. 'By tapping into our vast affiliate network and providing timely live news updates, our refreshed offering serves the growing market and complements our existing cable programming.' CNN's wider investment in its FAST programming complements the network's existing linear, digital, mobile and podcast offerings and soon-to-launch streaming service and other standalone products. CNN is attracting new advertisers to its FAST channels and developing new commercial product innovations to maximize monetization through advertising and sponsorship directly or through FAST platform partnerships. In 2024, CNN premiered CNN Originals, a FAST channel that offers a fresh way for audiences to explore and enjoy acclaimed long-form content from the award-winning CNN Originals Series library. Outside of the U.S., CNN also relaunched the previously named CNN Fast channel to CNN Headlines, increasing the timeliness of content, adding a news ticker and refreshing the brand identity. Audiences can access CNN Headlines for free on homepage (on desktop and mobile), on the CNN app, and in homes across the U.S. with connected television (CTV) apps. CNN Headlines Weekly Schedule (Monday-Friday): 7am – CNN Headline Express (live) 8am – CNN Headline Express 9am – CNN Headline Express 10am – ICYMI (In Case You Missed It) 11am – CNN Headline Express (live) 12pm – CNN Headline Express 1pm – CNN Headline Express 2pm – American Pulse 3pm – ICYMI (In Case You Missed It) 4pm – American Pulse 5pm – CNN Headline Express (live) 6pm – CNN Headline Express 7pm – CNN Headline Express 8pm – ICYMI (In Case You Missed It) 9pm – American Pulse 10pm – CNN Headline Express 11pm – ICYMI (In Case You Missed It) ### About CNN Worldwide CNN Worldwide is the most honored brand in cable news, reaching more individuals through television, streaming and online than any other cable news organization in the United States. Globally, people across the world can watch CNN International, which is widely distributed in over 200 countries and territories. CNN Digital is the #1 online news destination, with more unique visitors than any other news source. HBO Max, Warner Bros. Discovery's streaming platform, features CNN Max, a 24/7 streaming news offering available to subscribers alongside expanded access to News content and CNN Originals. CNN's award-winning portfolio includes non-scripted programming from CNN Original Series and CNN Films for broadcast, streaming and distribution across multiple platforms. CNN programming can be found on CNN, CNN International and CNN en Español channels, via CNN Max and the CNN Originals hub on discovery+ and via pay TV subscription on CNN apps and cable operator platforms. Additionally, CNN Newsource is the world's most extensively utilized news service partnering with over 1,000 local and international news organizations around the world. CNN is a division of Warner Bros. Discovery. About Warner Bros. Discovery Warner Bros. Discovery (NASDAQ: WBD) is a leading global media and entertainment company that creates and distributes the world's most differentiated and complete portfolio of content and brands across television, film and streaming. Available in more than 220 countries and territories and 50 languages, Warner Bros. Discovery inspires, informs and entertains audiences worldwide through its iconic brands and products including: Discovery Channel, discovery+, CNN, DC, Eurosport, HBO, HGTV, Food Network, OWN, Investigation Discovery, TLC, Magnolia Network, TNT, TBS, truTV, Travel Channel, HBO Max, MotorTrend, Animal Planet, Science Channel, Warner Bros. Film Group, Warner Bros. Television Group, Warner Bros. Games, New Line Cinema, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Turner Classic Movies, Discovery en Español, Hogar de HGTV and others. For more information, please visit Press Contacts
CNN
08-07-2025
- Business
- CNN
Brad Smith joins CNN as an Anchor for Network's FAST Channel
July 8th, 2025 ATLANTA, GA – (July, 8, 2025) – Brad Smith will join CNN as an Anchor for CNN Headlines, the network's domestic FAST channel. CNN Headlines is an original, curated news feed covering major stories across entertainment, culture, business, politics, and international, showcasing the buzziest and most impactful events of the day. With live news programs and roundups of can't-miss moments, Headlines taps into a local, on-the-ground perspective in the way only CNN can. Smith's appointment is part of CNN's wider investment in its FAST programming, complementing CNN's existing linear, digital, mobile and podcast offerings and soon-to-launch streaming service and other standalone products. Outside of the US, CNN relaunched the previously named CNN Fast channel to CNN Headlines, increasing the timeliness of content, adding a news ticker and refreshing the brand identity. CNN is attracting new advertisers to its FAST channels and developing new commercial product innovations to maximize monetization through advertising and sponsorship directly or through FAST platform partnerships. Smith was previously an anchor at Yahoo! Finance where he covered equity markets and interviewed chief executives of household-known businesses, cabinet officials, members of congress and economic policymakers as the host of Morning Brief. Prior to Yahoo! Finance, Smith was an anchor for the streaming platform Cheddar where his responsibilities spanned across Cheddar Business and Cheddar News. During his tenure, he hosted the daily live Opening Bell show from the New York Stock Exchange, and regularly steered heatmap and battleground states coverage during the 2020 election. He was also a founding anchor for timely shows Search for a Cure: COVID-19 and All Hands: Race to Inclusion . Before transitioning into news, Smith began his career at the Nasdaq Stock Market as a Global Listings Services Marketing Specialist as companies turned public and eventually expanded interests into video content strategy from the MarketSite Studio in Times Square. Smith will be based out of Atlanta and will start his new role at CNN later this summer. ### About CNN Worldwide CNN Worldwide is the most honored brand in cable news, reaching more individuals through television, streamingand online than any other cable news organization in the United States. Globally, people across the world can watch CNN International, which is widely distributed in over 200 countries and territories. CNN Digital is the #1 online news destination, with more unique visitors than any other news source. Max, Warner Bros. Discovery's streaming platform, features CNN Max, a 24/7 streaming news offering available to subscribers alongside expanded access to News content and CNN Originals. CNN's award-winning portfolio includes non-scripted programming from CNN Original Series and CNN Films for broadcast, streaming and distribution across multiple platforms. CNN programming can be found on CNN, CNN International and CNN en Español channels, via CNN Max and the CNN Originals hub on discovery+ and via pay TV subscription on CNN apps and cable operator platforms. Additionally, CNN Newsource is the world's most extensively utilized news service partnering with over 1,000 local and international news organizations around the world. CNN is a division of Warner Bros. Discovery. About Warner Bros. Discovery Warner Bros. Discovery is a leading global media and entertainment company that creates and distributes the world's most differentiated and complete portfolio of branded content across television, film, streaming and gaming. Available in more than 220 countries and territories and 50 languages, Warner Bros. Discovery inspires, informs and entertains audiences worldwide through its iconic brands and products including: Discovery Channel, Max, discovery+, CNN, DC, TNT Sports, Eurosport, HBO, HGTV, Food Network, OWN, Investigation Discovery, TLC, Magnolia Network, TNT, TBS, truTV, Travel Channel, MotorTrend, Animal Planet, Science Channel, Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group, Warner Bros. Television Group, Warner Bros. Pictures Animation, Warner Bros. Games, New Line Cinema, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Turner Classic Movies, Discovery en Español, Hogar de HGTV and others. For more information, please visit . Press Contact:
Axios
08-07-2025
- Business
- Axios
Scoop: CNN relaunches FAST channel with original, live programming
CNN last week quietly relaunched a new and improved version of its free, ad-supported (FAST) streaming channel called CNN Headlines, sources familiar with the effort told Axios. Why it matters: The service, which is completely separate from CNN's cross-platform streamer launching this fall, gives the company more inventory to sell video advertising to a wider array of marketers. It also expands CNN's reach across digital platforms. CNN is soon expected to name a new anchor specifically for live programming on the channel. State of play: CNN Headlines has existed as a curated, breaking news video service for years. But the product was rudimentary, mostly running clips that have already aired on its cable network through an automated playlist. Over the past few months, CNN has beefed up CNN Headlines with more live and original programming that it can use to capture data about viewership habits and engagement. It started producing two hours of a new, live, original show called "CNN Headline Express" at 7 a.m. and 11 a.m. ET, exclusively for the channel. The shows have been anchored by a rotating cast of fill-in anchors as the soon-to-be-announced anchor is hired and gets settled. CNN Headlines is available on CNN's website, as well as some smart TV providers and streaming services, such as Amazon Prime Video and Pluto TV. But distribution is still limited. It is not yet available, for example, on Apple TV. Zoom out: Over the past few years, more news networks have started to experiment with their own FAST channels in the U.S., putting pressure on CNN to improve its offering domestically. NBC News Now offers 24/7 live breaking news coverage, with specialized shows and anchors. CBS News 24/7 also offers live, breaking news video and original programming with specialized anchors and talent. Between the lines: CNN launched an international FAST channel called CNN Fast in 2023. That channel is being renamed CNN Headlines to match the relaunched domestic channel. CNN also launched a FAST channel called CNN Originals last year that features its original news documentary shows such as "Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown," "This is Life with Lisa Ling" and "The Wonder List with Bill Weir." The big picture: The revamped CNN Headlines channel is part of a sweeping overhaul of CNN's streaming and video efforts. CNN plans to debut a new, cross-platform streaming service that will be tied to its new subscription product this fall. CNN's existing cable customers will have free access to that new service. The company also plans to launch a new app called "CNN Weather" by the end of the year. The app will be available for free to start, but it's expected to eventually be paywalled. Zoom out: CNN's new package of streaming products is meant to bring CNN into the digital era at a more modest upfront cost. CNN launched a subscription streaming app, CNN+, in 2022, only to have new owners Warner Bros. Discovery shutter it weeks after launch. WBD killed the app fearing the network spent too much ($300 million) to launch the service without a quick enough plan for a return on investment. What to watch: CNN currently runs a curated live programming feed on Max, the streaming service owned by its parent company.
Yahoo
09-05-2025
- Yahoo
How Chattanooga jury impacted verdict in Tyre Nichols' case
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Hamilton County, Tennessee, is 358 miles from Memphis. Attorneys traveled there to find a jury for the 3 officers on state trial in the Tyre Nichols beating death. Defense attorneys wanted the change of venue over concerns that an impartial jury couldn't be found near Shelby County because of so much publicity about the Tyre Nichols case. 'There was a motion filed by the defense to change venue, and there was study done in the amount of publicity in the very large cities in Tennessee and it was found that Chattanooga had the lowest amount of pre-trial publicity with regard to this case. And so that's why it was chosen,' said Paul Hagerman, prosecutor in the Tyre Nichols case. Hamilton County has a population of around 380,000, and 76% are White and 20% are Black. While we are WREG is not sure about the demographics of the full jury pool that was called for the Tyre Nichols case, the final 12 jurors that decided it were all white. Jury finds three ex-officers not guilty in Tyre Nichols death trial 'They did not look like Mr. Nichols. They did not not look like the officers that were charged, and we are supposed to be judged by what? People that are our own peers,' said a friend of the Nichols' family. 'But this jury was not reflective of the city of Memphis, and I think that was a big win for the defense, because I think the jurors tend to be more conservative from places like Chattanooga and East Tennessee, other parts of East Tennessee, Knoxville, which they're going to be more friendly to the police, and I think that's what you saw here this week,' said Art Horne, Memphis Attorney. WREG asked long time attorney Art Horne, who was not involved in the Tyre Nichols trial, if attorneys could have done more to get a diverse set of jurors. Unfortunately, it doesn't work like that. You get a pool of you get a list of people, and they're randomly selected. And so basically, when they're selected, they have to answer questions. 'I'm sure one of the questions was, had they seen the video in Tyree Nichols' case, and disproportionately, I'm sure, African Americans saw that video more than probably white Americans, and so I think that hampered the ability to get diversity and minorities on that jury,' said Horne. Tyre Nichols' mother: Verdict a 'devastating blow' Hamilton County and Chattanooga are worlds apart when it comes to issues facing the communities. Memphis is in a crime fight, that's become well know around the region. And it even played into defense attorney Martin Zummach's closing arguments as he read crime headlines to the jury. 'CNN Headlines. Memphis Mayor meets with gang members to request a ceasefire,' said Martin Zummach, Justin Smith's attorney. He stressed what police, like those on trial, face every day. 'Crime has continued to go nuts. It's a matter of public record. It's a matter of your own knowledge in your own head when you come to Shelby County,' said Zummach. Sen. Brent Taylor calls out D.A. Mulroy after 'not guilty' verdicts in Tyre Nichols case 'Think that really, really had an impact on this jury, who was not from here, and who probably looks a lot of people across the state of Tennessee, as you know, kind of look at Memphis as the armpit of the state, and we're very different,' said Art Horne, Memphis Attorney. 'It was masterful. I think he did a great job for his client. I think he did a great job for his client. I think he knew the audience that he was catering to, and they played right into the hands of those jurors from Hamilton County,' said Horne. It worked for the defense. Attorney's got the verdicts they wanted from a jury they pushed for, and prosecutors left to deal with the outcome. 'I think it's a testimony to the fairness of our criminal justice center that we bent over backwards to get a jury from another jurisdiction to assure the defendants were given a fair trial. Beyond that, I don't think I should comment,' said Steve Mulroy, Shelby County District Attorney. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
