Why does CNN dominate the Airport Terminals and Hotel chains?

4/13/04 | klimeckg

[klimeckg]

Why does CNN dominate the Airport Terminals and Hotel chains? What does Rupert Murdock have to do to get Fox News piped in?

[klimeckg]

Have you noticed that CNN dominates the traveling sector?

As a business traveler, I am surprised to see that 95% of the airport terminals and hotel chains have CNN piped through their televisions. Never, do I see Fox News on a television at the airport and hardly is it available in the hotel I may stay at. Think about how many people are traveling in one day. All those people are subject to one news network! The majority of those people probably believe most of what they heard without checking the facts. They believe the lies and twists of CNN.

So, this has helped me to understand the anti American rhetoric amongst most of society around me. They're being duped by CNN's lies and twists. They believe what they hear from CNN. It’s a shame. Now when I travel, I am wireless and can check the news on Free Republic and even confirm and validate the report from CNN while I wait for my flight or wait for TSA to give me my shoes back once they x-rayed them. Maybe Rupert Murdock will start selling portable televisions with Direct TV service so we can choose our flavors and easily shrug off that piped in garbage they call reliable.

[CapnMcK]

Since FoxNews became available, I've been on two cruises with Norwegian Cruise Lines (Alaska and Western Carribean) and on both ships, CNN was the only available news. I've griped this on my critiques with no feedback. Does CNN have sattelite access that Fox doesn't? CNN can mess up my attitude and take the "goody" off a perfectly good cruise!

[SoothingDave]

CNN paid for the equipment and installation at the airport terminals, which agreed to such as a service to their customers. CNN bought the TV. So CNN is what gets shown.

Certainly, there is a clause in the contract where there is to be no competing system installed. So whenever the contracts with the various airports are up, maybe Fox can bid and win.

As for hotels, it seems the higher-priced the room, the fewer channels available. There are probably negotiating rights for these as well, thought it may just be corporate bias. CNN was the first.

SD

[klimeckg]

A while back I emailed Fox News about this and their reply was that they did not own the cable network and paid a lease to Time Warner. So Fox News has not control of how their network is broadcast. It appears that Rupert Murdock has or will buy Direct TV and wants to go satellite and counteract Time Warner with a much better solution for servicing the home entertainment industry. I currently do not have cable and will never buy a subscription to it. Comcast is the big guy on my street. If and when I decide to dish out the bucks, I'll go satelite. (no pun intended.)

[international american]

Murdock is trying... . he will succeed sooner or later.

[smiley]

Not to mention the VA Hospitals...which IMO is unforgiveable

[SoothingDave]

A while back I emailed Fox News about this and their reply was that they did not own the cable network and paid a lease to Time Warner.

In the areas served by Time Warner cable, this is or was true. They didn't want the competition and tried to keep Fox News out of certain areas, like NYC.

It appears that Rupert Murdock has or will buy Direct TV and wants to go satellite and counteract Time Warner with a much better solution for servicing the home entertainment industry.

DirectTV and Dish Network both carry all kinds of news channels. Their bandwidth is not as limited as was cables before the digital era.

If and when I decide to dish out the bucks, I'll go satelite. (no pun intended.)

And you won't regret it, unless you need to have like 5 TVs hooked up.

SD

[Khurkris]

I have noticed this also. Another Freeper has answered the why. Thanks.

You want CNN bias? Travel in Asia with CNN Hong Kong/Singapore talking heads. Its unbelieveable how blatant their anti-USA comments/sources are. And satellite dishes are basically unheard of. Cable TV is there, but FOX is not.

[NCC-1701]

Sounds like when Fred Smith offered one of Federal Express' first Falcon jets to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. When UPS caught wind of that, they went ballistic. The fine folks at the A & S Museum told them if they had gotten to them first, one of thier aircraft would be hanging where Fred's donation is.

I still don't liks CNN. Fox rocks.

[Seruzawa]

Why do we have to have televisions blaring crap at us 24 hours per day? I was totally disgusted when I went on vacation a few years ago (to the Bahamas) and saw those huge stinking blaring TVs all over the airport. The last thing I want to see when I'm travelling is the unending stream of blood and death that is the news.

I don't care if it's CNN or Fox or whatever. Give it a rest!!

[klimeckg]

I don't need no stink'n TV's!

[klimeckg]

Seruzawa,
Please clarify, who should give it a rest?

-Gary

[SoCalPol]

In the past recent yrs I have been in the hospital for
several surgeries and no FOX only cnn. I go through
withdrawl. Surgeries bad enough but no FOX, that is asking
to much.

[rogueleader]

Fox News does few weather reports.

CNN does many weather reports.

http://www.cnn.com/WEATHER/

Ergo, CNN beats Fox in travel news.

BTW, I have a question about CNN Airport. This is a network that is like CNN Headline News, except it has more business news and it doesn't cover airplane crashes. My question is: what did they show on 9/11? Just wondering.

[rogueleader]

In airports across the U.S. Tuesday, stranded travelers found themselves struggling to get news. CNN Airport Network TV sets went blank shortly after the news that commercial jetliners had crashed into the World Trade Center towers. (That's understandable; airports and airlines don't want air travelers to see horrific plane crash images.) That left travelers in the dark about what happened -- and why their planes were grounded.

http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=6344&sid=44

[Seruzawa]

The people who want to have TV news blaring in our faces should give it a rest. I have no desire to see anything on TV while I'm airports. The constant stream of bad news, which is the stock in trade of all the news outlets, eventually will make you insane.

[Indie]

Thank goodness my last memories of NAS included only the simple sound of steel drums in the airport and the taste of Planter's Punch. I hear NAS is like Miami Beach now. I won't break my heart by going back, either. My $$ stays right here in the USA from now on. Too many leftists in foreign countries...and leftist-controlled television sets :O))

[longtermmemmory]

CNN is using a model of being a distribution rather than actual news agency. like the AP wire service.

They have even more vitriolic anti-american variants with a CNNeurope and CNNTurkey branding.

CNN in the USA is an afterthought.

Even their anchors are forbiddent from saying the word "foreign" under threat of fine. They have to say "international" because it makes the clips usable in other markets.