CNNfn to Go Full-Time by Fourth Quarter.
Multichannel News, January, 1999 by MOSS, LINDA
At long last, Lou Dobbs is getting his wish: CNNfn will become a 24-hour network by the beginning of the fourth quarter.
"We continue to build our product, arid we're ahead of our business plan," Dobbs, CNNfn's president, said last week. "It's the appropriate time to expand as we build."
CNNfn, a financial-news spinoff of Cable News Network, is currently on 18 hours per day, from 6 p.m. to midnight.
The financial network's delayed timetable for making the transition to an all-day service has been a bone of contention for Dobbs. In 1997, he threatened to quit if he didn't get a firm commitment from parent Time Warner Inc. about CNNfn going 24 hours per day.
At that time, Time Warner Inc. vice chairman Ted Turner and CNN...
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