CNNfn's Real Hang-Up: Slow Distribution.
Multichannel News, August, 1999 by MOSS, LINDA
This summer, not long after Lou Dobbs left the company, Time Warner Inc. vice chairman Ted Turner met with the staff of CNNfn in New York. At the session, Turner was asked when he thought the network, which now reaches roughly 12 million households, would get wide distribution. "Not in my lifetime," he said, which was not exactly the response CNNfn employees were expecting to hear.
CNN News Group vice chairman and chief operating officer Steve Korn said last week that Time Warner remains fully behind CNNfn and that Turner's comment should not be taken seriously -- that it was simply vintage Ted. "Ted loves to say things tongue-in-cheek," Korn said. "He loves to be provocative." But Turner's remark, facetious or not, nailed the network's...
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