CNN Chile: Coming Soon To Cable TV

by Jarrett Martineau | February 13, 2008 at 09:01 pm | 675 views | 1 comment

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CNN continues to grow its cable news service in international markets. Today CNN announced a partnership with Chile to produce a news network there. I wonder if CNN will roll-out their iReport citizen journalism initiative in other markets as well.

Global news provider CNN said on Wednesday it will partner with Chile's top cable television provider to launch a local 24-hour cable TV news network.

Turner Broadcasting System (TBS), a unit of Time Warner Inc responsible for CNN Latin America, and Chile's VTR, a unit of U.S. cable operator Liberty Global, said in a statement CNN Chile would be broadcast from Santiago and "presented by Chileans for Chileans."

"In addition to a fully staffed local news production center, CNN Chile will have complete access to CNN Worldwide's news-gathering resources," they said.

CNN has similar partnership channels in Spain, Turkey, Japan and India.