Cable news channels aretelevision networks devoted totelevision news broadcasts, with the name deriving from the proliferation of such networks during the 1980s with the advent ofcable television.
In the United States, the first nationwide cable TV news channel to launch wasCNN in 1980, followed byFinancial News Network (FNN) in 1981 and CNN2 (nowHLN) in 1982.CNBC was created in 1989, taking control of FNN in 1991. Through the 1990s and beyond, the cable news industry continued to grow, with the establishment of several other networks, including,Fox News Channel,MS NOW, andspecialty channels such asBloomberg Television,Fox Business Network, andESPN News. More recent additions to the cable news business have beenCBSN,Newsmax TV,TheBlaze,NewsNation, part-time news networkRFD-TV, and the now defunctAl Jazeera America andBlack News Channel.
As some of the most widely available channels, Fox News,CNN, and MS NOW are often referred to as the "big three" withFox News having the highest viewership and ratings. While the networks are usually referred to as24-hour news networks, reruns of news programs and analysis or opinion programming are played throughout the night, with the exception ofbreaking news.
Regional 24-hour cable news television channels that are primarily concerned withlocal programming and cover some statewide interest have includedSpectrum News (a brand used for multiple networks including in upstateNew York,North Carolina,Florida andTexas),NY1 (which operates fromNew York City),News 12 Networks,FiOS1, and the formerNorthwest Cable News (NWCN) (which operated from Seattle).New England Cable News covers the six-state region ofNew England.
Listed by the number of viewers, the 'Big Three' cable TV news channels are:
Fox News Channel (Fox News) launched on October 7, 1996, and was formed under the ownership ofNews Corporation (founded byAustralian-born media mogulRupert Murdoch), the fifth largest media company in the United States behindSony, the originalViacom (nowParamount Global), Time Warner (nowWarner Bros. Discovery),The Walt Disney Company,Seagram (nowNBCUniversal) andMGM. The network is headed bychief executive officerRupert Murdoch. The network began broadcasting its programming inhigh definition TV in May 2008.[1]
Since the network's launch, Fox News has gradually grown to become the highest-rated cable network until January 2021, when MSNBC surpassed Fox News briefly before returning to the number two position in February.[2] Fox News's former prime time lineup included programs such asThe O'Reilly Factor, hosted byBill O'Reilly, which had been a top rated program since the early 2000s when considered among major cable news channels. The channel's longtime slogans are "Fair and Balanced" and "We Reported, You Decide". Current slogans are "Most Watched. Most Trusted."; "Real News. Real Honest Opinion." and "America's Watching".
MS NOW launched as MSNBC on July 15, 1996, as a partnership betweenNBC andMicrosoft (Microsoft's stake in the channel was gradually bought out by NBC until the latter's parentNBCUniversal bought out the remaining minority stake held by Microsoft in 2011). When the network was launched, its leading hosts includedJodi Applegate,John Gibson,Tim Russert andBrian Williams. For over a decade, the network's ratings were consistently in last place among the cable news channels until February 2021 when MSNBC became the highest watched news channel.
AfterPhil Griffin became president of MS NOW in mid-2008, the channel began shifting towards an increasingly politically liberal ideology in its analysis programming, particularly in itsprime-time lineup.[3][4][5] MS NOW launched a high definition simulcast feed on June 29, 2009.[6]
Notable personalities on the network includeMorning Joe co-hostsJoe Scarborough andMika Brzezinski, daytime anchorsKaty Tur andNicolle Wallace, and evening commentatorsChris Hayes andRachel Maddow. The network was noted in the mid-2000s for its harsh criticism of then-PresidentGeorge W. Bush, most notably the "special comment" segment of former anchorKeith Olbermann's show,Countdown. This, combined with accusations of support for then-PresidentBarack Obama, have led to MS NOW being criticized[by whom?] for a liberal bias, a reputation it has increasingly embraced with its "Lean Forward" slogan (which it adopted in 2011) and open promotion of progressive and liberal ideas. This has led to MS NOW increasingly shifting towards centrism and establishment politics, displaying (subtly or otherwise) acts of hostility towards progressive politicians e.g. Vermont SenatorBernie Sanders (a frontrunner in the 2020 democratic nominations).[7][8] The channel had a spin-off calledShift. Established in 2014, it was an online-only channel through its website ms.now. The programming schedule was less focused on politics than the main channel, built to be a divergence from it and is more tailored to a younger audience. Shift ceased operations without notice some time before 2018.
Cable News Network (CNN) launched on June 1, 1980, as the first cable channel devoted to news programming. ThePersian Gulf War in 1991 catapulted CNN into the spotlight, largely because the channel was the only news outlet with the ability to communicate from insideIraq during the initial hours of the American bombing campaign, with live reports from theal-Rashid Hotel inBaghdad byreportersBernard Shaw,John Holliman andPeter Arnett. Throughout the 1990s, CNN (which was at the time the only major cable news channel) became very influential, an influence later coined as theCNN effect.
CNN was the first cable news network to begin broadcasting inhigh definition in September 2007.[9] Today, CNN'stelevision personalities includeWolf Blitzer,Erin Burnett,Anderson Cooper andJake Tapper.
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In 1982, theTurner Broadcasting System (which would merge withTime Warner in 1996) created a spin-off of CNN called CNN2, which was originally formatted to show the top news stories of the day on a 30-minute "wheel" schedule. The channel rebranded as CNN Headline News in 1983, before the network abandoned the CNN branding and changed its name to theorphaned initialism HLN in 2008, following a shift from news programming towards a mix of news during the day and discussion programs and documentary series at night that began two years earlier.
Turner foundedCNN International in 1985, with a straight focus on international news stories compared to CNN, which featured an equal emphasis on U.S. and world news. CNN launched a special service on January 20, 1992, called CNN Airport Network which was available exclusively in United States airports; the service simulcast programs from CNN and HLN, but with inserts of information of interest to air travelers. CNN Airport Network shut down in 2020. CNN also operates aSpanish language service, CNN en Español.
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Turner Broadcasting also established two, now defunct networks. CNNfn, launched at the end of 1995, attempting to challengeCNBC. It ceased operations after nine years on the air in December 2004. CNNSI, a partnership between CNN andSports Illustrated, attempted to counter the rising success ofESPNews in covering sports news. While the network was shut down, CNN and Sports Illustrated continue to maintain their partnership, with Sports Illustrated operating a sports section on CNN's website. An online offshoot,CNN+, operated for one month in April 2022 before it was aborted due to poor uptake.[10]
Fox News has been number one among cable news audiences since supplanting CNN in 2002.[11] Until the start of 2002, CNN was the number one cable news network in the ratings.[12]
Starting in 2013, a major ratings decline at MS NOW has pushed that network to fourth place in March 2015.[13]
Fox News marked its 15th year as the highest-rated cable news channel in the same demographic, posting 2.8 million average total viewers in January 2017. MS NOW beat CNN in total primetime viewers, ranking sixth among all cable networks in January. CNN beat MS NOW, but trailed to the first place Fox News Channel, in total daytime viewers.[14][2][15]
Newsmax TV debuted June 15, 2014 as a television arm ofNewsmax Media, a media company better known for its magazine and website. The channel runs a mix of rolling news coverage in the afternoons, video simulcasts ofconservative talk radio programs, talk shows, and reruns of documentaries. Talent on the network includesGreta van Susteren,Greg Kelly,Carl Higbie,Tom Basile,Rita Cosby,Rob Schmitt andChris Salcedo. Former talent includesEric Bolling,Howie Carr,Wayne Allyn Root,Joe Pagliarulo andBill O'Reilly. Until mid-2016, it was distributed on bothDish Network andDirecTV. The channel does have numerous local broadcasting affiliates. A live stream of the channel is also available for free online at NewsmaxTV.com, as well as YouTube.[16] Newsmax TV is explicitly conservative in its lean, broadcasting many programs hosted by conservative media personalities including those largely abandoned by Fox News; it is positioned further to the right of Fox News's editorial stance but not as far to the fringe as One America News Network.[17]
The network saw noticeable gains following the2020 United States presidential election, beating out the business news networks, as conservatives showed increasing dissatisfaction with Fox News coverage of the election.[18]
Nexstar Media Group'sNewsNation is a news channel that replaced general entertainment channelWGN America (itself the successor to thesuperstation feed ofWGN-TV inChicago) on March 1, 2021. TheNewsNation brand was introduced for a prime time news block on WGN on September 1, 2020, six months before the scheduled rebranding of the channel as a whole. NewsNation's focus intends to be non-ideological, using its extensive network oflocal newsrooms from television stations Nexstar owns and/or operates across the United States. Talent on the network includesDan Abrams,Ashleigh Banfield andChris Cuomo. The network transitioned to a full 24/7 schedule in the summer of 2024 after its final WGN-era contracts for syndicated programming were exhausted.[19][20]
Blaze TV is a news and opinion network operated by Blaze Media, a joint venture betweenConservative Review andGlenn Beck'sMercury Radio Arts. It began September 12, 2012 as GBTV, initially controlled solely by Beck, and formed the joint venture December 3, 2018, taking on the programming of CRTV, Conservative Review's subscription video service that had launched in October 2016. Blaze TV is explicitlyconservative in perspective, with popular hosts on the network including Beck,Mark Levin,Pat Gray,Steve Deace,Steven Crowder andPhil Robertson. Blaze TV is available viaDish Network andVerizon FiOS, various smaller cable providers, and through subscriptionInternet television.
Free Speech TV (FSTV) is a national, independent, progressive news network that reaches more than 40 million television households in the United States. The network brands itself as "the alternative to television networks owned by billionaires, governments and corporations." It was launched in 1995 and is owned and operated by Public Communicators Incorporated, a 501(c)3 non-profit, tax-exempt organization founded in 1974. Distributed principally by Dish Network, DirecTV, and the network's live stream at freespeech.org and on Roku, Free Speech TV has run commercial free since 1995 with support from viewers and foundations. The network claims to "amplify underrepresented voices and those working on the front lines of social, economic and environmental justice," bringing viewers an array of daily news programs, independent documentaries and special events coverage. In practice, the network's political leanings represent a left-wing perspective, with severalprogressive talk radio hosts having time slots on the network and the network simulcastingDemocracy Now! with longtime progressive radio networkPacifica.
RFD-TV (Rural Free Delivery Television) is a rural-oriented television network independently owned and operated byPatrick Gottsch, through his company Rural Media Group. The majority of its daytime weekday programming is devoted to news coverage, including outside-produced newscasts such asU.S. Farm Report,AgDay andThis Week in Agribusiness, the network's nightlyRural Evening News, and a five-hour rolling news coverage block centered on agricultural commodities coverage with news and weather. RFD-TV is available through both national satellite providers, on some cable outlets, and through apaywalled Internet stream.
One America News Network (OANN) was launched in the summer of 2013 by Herring Networks, initially under the cooperation ofThe Washington Times.[21] In 2019, OAN said that it reached 35 million homes.[22] Its primary outlet was throughDirecTV, which distributed the channel through its namesake satellite service andU-verse fiber-optic system; DirecTV provided an estimated 90% of the network's revenue until the company announced its intent to drop OANN in April 2022.[17]Verizon Fios, the largest carrier outside of DirecTV to carry the network, followed suit in dropping OANN in July.[23] Its primary method of distribution since the Fios discontinuation has been through its free platform, OAN Plus, made available throughdigital subchannels.[24]
The channel targets aconservative audience.[25] Initially offering a combination of conservative opinion content and non-ideologically driven news content from its launch until 2016,[26][27] the channel shifted toshilling forDonald Trump during and after hispresidency.[28][17] Itsprime time political talk shows have a conservative perspective,[29][30][31] and the channel regularly features pro-Trump stories.[29][32] The channel described itself as one of the "greatest supporters" of Trump.[33] The channel has been noted for promoting falsehoods andconspiracy theories.[30][34]
Real America's Voice was launched in 2020 and offers political news coverage as well as coverage of political rallies by the Republican Party candidates running for US President, US Senate, US House, state gubernatorial and state legislature. The channel also offers programs hosted byCharlie Kirk,Grant Stinchfield, among others.
Scripps News began in 2008 asNewsy, a syndication service providing news videos to mobile and Web users. It was acquired byThe E. W. Scripps Company, an owner of local television stations, in 2014 and transformed into its current form, a linear channel devoted to rolling news coverage and short-form videos. Originally distributed solely via over-the-top platforms, Newsy was offered to cable outlets in late 2017, and later on free over-the-air digital television from 2021 to 2024. Newsy was rebranded into Scripps News on January 1, 2023.
Al Jazeera English (AJE) isAl Jazeera Media Network's English language international news channel. It was the first English-language news channel to be headquartered in the Middle East. Instead of being run centrally, news management rotates between broadcasting centres in Doha and London.
The channel, however, has poor penetration in the American market, where it has been carried by only one satellite service and a small number of cable networks. Al Jazeera English later began a campaign to enter the North American market, including a dedicated website. It became available to some cable subscribers in New York in August 2011, having previously been available as an option for some viewers in Washington, D.C., Ohio and Los Angeles. The channel primarily reaches the United States via its live online streaming. It is readily available on most major Canadian television providers including Rogers and Bell Satellite TV after the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission approved the channel for distribution in Canada on 26 November 2009. In 2013, Al Aazeera Media Network boughtCurrent TV and createdAl Jazeera America which was based out of New York City and aimed directly at the American market. The channel while having decent carriage on American satellite and cable services was closed in 2017 after sustaining large financial losses for the network.
The channel may also be viewed online. It recommends online viewing at its own website or at its channel on YouTube.
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BBC News is the BBC's international news and current affairs television channel.[35] While the channel does not specifically target the U.S., the BBC has a bureau inWashington, D.C., and produces two programs that cover U.S. news and politics:BBC World News America andThe Context. These shows are also broadcast on public television stations, as well as half-hourBBC News bulletins. BBC News has covered both U.S. presidential and midterm elections results. The BBC produces weather forecasts for the U.S. and Canada and runs advertisements on the U.S. feed, as foreign broadcasts are not covered by theUnited Kingdom television license. The channel is carried on Cablevision, Comcast, Spectrum, Verizon FiOS, DirecTV, and AT&T U-Verse, as well as internet TV providersYouTube TV andSling TV. A 2018 survey for Research Intelligencer by Brand Keys found that the BBC was the most trusted TV news brand among American viewers, beating out Fox News and PBS.[36]
CGTN America is the American division ofChina Global Television Network, the English-language news channel run by Chinese state broadcasterChina Central Television. It is based inWashington, D.C. and manages bureaus acrossNorth andSouth America. The service launched in 2012 as CCTV America and employs a mix ofAmerican, international andChinese journalists and produces Americas-based programming with a focus on Asia forCGTN. The channel is carried on DirecTV, Dish Network, AT&T U-Verse and smaller carriers and live streams via its website andLivestream. CGTN has beenregistered as a foreign agent since 2018 and designated aforeign mission since 2020, which restricts the service's operations in the United States.[37][38]
CNC World is an English-language network majority owned byXinhua, the Chinese state news agency. It has a more explicitpropaganda aim than CGTN and is closely intertwined with theChinese Communist Party. Its U.S. operations are based inNew York City. The channel is available through digital subchannels and a live stream on the Internet. CNC World has beenregistered as a foreign agent since 2018 and designated aforeign mission since 2020, which restricts the service's operations in the United States.[37][38]
i24NEWS is an English language international news television channel that is owned byAltice USA. It is the English version ofi24NEWS, a news service based inIsrael and operated as a joint venture by Israel's two most prominent commercial broadcasters. The network began broadcasting in the US on February 13, 2017. It is live from 6-10 p.m. Eastern Time and at other times broadcasts from Israel. Live programming is broadcast fromTimes Square in New York with an additional bureau in Washington, D.C. The channel uses resources from i24's mainJaffa headquarters. Talent includesDavid Shuster who is also the managing editor,Michelle Makori, andDan Raviv. The channel acquired many of its debut behind-the-scenes talent from the formerAl Jazeera America. The channel is carried on Altice USA-owned Optimum andSuddenlink cable systems and Charter Spectrum. The channel live streams via its website.
NTD is the English language arm of New Tang Dynasty Television, a media outlet with ties to theFalun Gong, a Chinese expatriate new religious movement also responsible forThe Epoch Times newspaper. Its American operations are based in New York City, with production in English, Chinese, Vietnamese, Japanese, Korean and Russian languages. In contrast to the state-backed CGTN and CNC World, NTD's editorial stance is explicitly anti-Communist, critical of the ruling clique in the People's Republic of China, and supportive of right-wing policies. It is available on select cable outlets, on free-to-air C band satellite, and through a live stream on the Internet.
| TV channels | CNBC | Bloomberg TV | Fox Business Network |
|---|---|---|---|
| Headquarters | Englewood Cliffs, N.J. | New York City | New York City |
| Number of Households in 2012[needs update] | 97 million | 57 million | 68 million |
| Profits in 2008[needs update] | $350 million | $15.6 million | not reported* |
| Management | Mark Hoffman (President) | Michael Clancy (Executive Editor) | Rupert Murdoch (CEO) |
*FBN is operated as a division ofFox Corporation. No information reported for the profits or losses which the FBN division represents.
CNBC (originally an abbreviation for the Consumer News and Business Channel) was launched byNBC in 1989 after the purchase ofSatellite Program Network, and merged with competitorFinancial News Network that same year. It is owned by the NBCUniversal News Group, a unit of theNBCUniversal Television Group division of NBCUniversal. CNBC is the widest distributed of the business channels with about 84.27% of carriage. The channel has many international spin-offs.
CNBC gained a competitor in the financial news genre with Bloomberg Television, which was created in 1994 byBloomberg L.P., led by formerNew York CityMayorMichael Bloomberg. It is distributed worldwide through cable, satellite and internet providers, and is headquartered in New York. Bloomberg Television was unusual in that its Internet stream, one of the few television networks to continuously offer a video feed over the Internet since the 1990s, was free to the public; the feed was placed behind a softpaywall along with the rest of Bloomberg's Internet ventures in May 2018.
FBN is the sister business network to Fox News Channel. In October 2007, News Corporation launched its own financial news network called Fox Business Network (FBN); News Corporation CEO Rupert Murdoch stated his reason for launching the channel was that CNBC is too "negative towards business", and had promised to make FBN more "business friendly".
Cheddar was established in 2017 as an initially online-only channel that operated on afreemium model with some content free and otherspaywalled. It was acquired byAltice USA in 2019 and, after a two-year run in which several low-powered stations owned byDTV America carried the slot, began transitioning to cable systems that year. Cheddar targets a younger audience than the other business news channels.
FBN's ratings were initially too low to be registered beyond Nielsen's margin of error;[40] its highest viewership was estimated to be 202,000 viewers, during the 7:00 a.m.Eastern Time hour ofImus in the Morning's debut broadcast on the network in 2009.[41] By October 2016, FBN had surpassed CNBC, as roughly a third of CNBC's viewership migrated to FBN over the course of a year, with both netting approximately 170,000 viewers.[42] Bloomberg also does not subscribe to Nielsen and its ratings are assumed to be very low (however, its viewership was higher than CNBC's when Bloomberg's programming was simulcast onE! in the early morning hours, an arrangement that began in 2004 afterUSA Network ended its simulcast of the channel after ten years, and was discontinued altogether under E! in 2007).[43] Currently, CNBC usually has between 200,000 and 400,000 viewers during the day.[44] In 2000, CNBC had higher ratings than CNN during market hours.[45] The viewership of business newscasts may be underestimated in part because much of its viewership comes from communal areas, most of which cannot be accurately measured by Nielsen and are thus not counted; for this reason, CNBC dropped its subscription to Nielsen in 2015.[46] RFD-TV's average viewership, including for its financial market coverage as well as its non-news programming, is approximately 136,000 viewers.[47]
ESPN launched a 24-hour sports news channel namedESPNews on November 1, 1996, which is carried by most cable and satellite providers, although usually only on dedicated sports and information tiers. It airs news, highlights, press conferences and commentary by analysts all in relation to sports. ESPNews was also syndicated toregional sports networks as daytime filler programming and also often appears asblackout filler on ESPN or ESPN2 when those channels air a program unavailable in a certain geographic area.
ESPNews scaled back its news-only format in 2013, after several years of ESPN expanding its flagship newscast,SportsCenter, throughout the daytime hours on the main channel. ESPNews newscasts are now branded under theSportsCenter brand, while replays of ESPN2 talk programs typically air whenSportsCenter airs on ESPN's main channel.
At least one of the ESPN networks is usually carrying aSportsCenter broadcast at any given time, with the lone exceptions being particularly busy sports days in which all three networks (ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNEWS) are carrying sporting events and the network'smulti-channel coverage of major sports events.
Fox Entertainment Group re-brandedSpeed Channel asFS1, a sports channel carrying both analysis shows and live sports events, on August 13, 2013. The studio programs are usually pushed to its sister station,FS2, when live sports are occurring during the broadcast. FS2 acts primarily as an overflow network for FS1, airing their studio programs when they cannot air on FS1 due to schedule conflicts, and also airs reruns of FS1 programming. However, FS2 does air live sports as well, most often from outside the United States.
Fox Sports has, three times in its history, attempted to launch a national sportscast. The first two aired onFox Sports Net: theNational Sports Report from 1996 to 2002, andFinal Score from 2006 to 2011. The third,Fox Sports Live, aired on FS1 from the network's launch until 2017.
CBS Sports Network was founded asCollege Sports TV. It still maintains a primary focus on college sports, but has since been broadened to include general studio discussion shows, simulcasts ofCBS Sports Radio talk shows, and some lower-end professional sports.
On February 26, 2018, CBS Sports launchedCBS Sports HQ, an Internet-only channel that serves as a 24-hour channel for sports news, highlights and discussion programs, without any live sports.
ESPNU is a 24-hour sports news network dedicated to college sports. ESPN airs a customized version ofSportsCenter, SportsCenter U, covering college sports, as well as documentaries about college teams and players.
TheBig Ten Network, whose origins can be traced back to 2003, airs a large amount of original sports programming, including a program similar toSportsCenter called Big Ten Tonight, as well as live sports. Unlike other college sports channels, such asESPNU or BTN's sister stationFox College Sports, BTN covers the Big Ten Conference exclusively.
Three years after the launch of the now-defunctLonghorn Network,ESPN entered a similard joint venture with theSoutheastern Conference, also known as the SEC. While it does broadcast over 20 different SEC sports, it also airs analysis of upcoming games as well as a sports talk show. SomeSEC Network football games are simulcast onWDCW.
The ACC Network covers every sport in the ACC as well as every team in the conference. The network features films and mini documentaries on the ACC sports teams. The ACC Network also airs games from the ACC schools.
The Weather Channel is the market leader in news regarding weather forecasting and the most widely distributed cable network in the United States. It was launched in August 1982, under the ownership ofLandmark Communications (which sold the network to ajoint venture ofNBCUniversal,Blackstone Group andBain Capital in 2008; these parties, in turn, split the channel, with the non-broadcast assets going toIBM in 2016 and the channel itself going toByron Allen'sEntertainment Studios in 2018).
Originally, the channel was devoted entirely to weather forecasts and news coverage (withcomputer-generated local forecasts inserted through each individual cable provider every ten minutes, and previously at randomized time intervals, ten times an hour), but since 2001, the network has increasingly cut back its weather coverage in favor ofreality television and documentary series (this reliance on such programs has led tocarriage disputes betweenDish Network andDirecTV in the early 2010s, the latter resulting in the channel's first provider defection, citing subscriber complaints regarding The Weather Channel's shift away from forecast programs). The entirety of the channel's weekday morning and afternoon, and most of its weekend morning lineup remains devoted to weather news coverage and national forecasts.
Since the 2000s, there have been several other attempts to launch weather-centric television channels.
The LocalAccuWeather Channel was distributed mainly as adigital subchannel on various terrestrial television outlets. Content on local versions of The Local AccuWeather Channel vary widely, ranging from a mix of local and national AccuWeather content (such asWFAA) to all-local, automated outlets (such asWFMZ-TV). Now largely deprecated, it is unknown as of January 2020 (when WFAA dropped its affiliation) whether any affiliates still carry the national AccuWeather Channel over the air. In 2021, the service was quietly discontinued in favor ofAccuWeather Now, which is also provided free-to-consumer, but through advertising-supportedover-the-top media service providers instead of individual terrestrial affiliates.
AccuWeather Network is a national version of the AccuWeather channel. The network broadcasts pre-recorded national and regional weather forecasts, analysis of ongoing weather events, and weather-related news, along with local weather segments for mostly the Northeastern United States. It is currently available on providers such asVerizon FIOS andDirecTV.
Fox Weather, a subsidiary ofFox Corporation, launched in late 2021 as an Internet feed, with intent to launch as a digital subchannel on Fox owned-and-operated stations in early 2022.
WeatherNation TV, originally known asThe Weather Cast, also uses this model (having taken the place of The Local AccuWeather Channel as the affiliation of certain stations' weather channels since 2013), although it also provides a feed directly to cable providers and directly to consumers through mobile and smart-TV apps. A national feed is available onDish Network.
Media analysts have reported that cable news programs in the United States have increasingly eliminated genuine disagreements between hosts and guests. A 2025 study found that the amount of “real debate” on prime-time programs declined by about one-third between 2017 and 2024, with discussion formats increasingly favoring preexisting viewpoints.[48]
which often promotes conspiracy theories
