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Country | United States |
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Broadcast area | United States |
Affiliates | See Below |
Headquarters | Santa Monica, California, later Rockefeller Center and Los Angeles, California |
Programming | |
Language(s) | English |
Picture format | 480i (SDTV) |
Ownership | |
Owner | Rodney Buchser, Dr. Glen H. Taylor and Merrill Lynch (1981–1991) CNBC (1991) |
Key people | Rodney Buchser Glen H. Taylor |
Sister channels | SCORE |
History | |
Launched | November 30, 1981 |
Closed | May 21, 1991 |
Replaced by | CNBC Bloomberg Television |
The Financial News Network (FNN) was an American financial and business news television network launched on November 30, 1981. The network aimed to broadcast programming nationwide, five days a week, for seven hours a day on thirteen stations, in an effort to expand the availability of business news for public dissemination. FNN was founded by Glen H. Taylor, a former minister of the Christian Church (1950-1956) and a producer of films for the California Department of Education.[1] In February 1991, the channel was purchased by NBC, and operations were integrated with its rival cable financial news network, CNBC, on May 21, 1991.