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[[File:HLN (TV network) 2017 logo.svg|thumb|2017-present logo]]
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'''HLN''' is a [[
After Time Warner bought Turner Broadcasting (the channel's original owner), a few revamps were done; one in the late '90s when the 30-minute newscast was split into four for different dayparts, and another in 2001, which changed the logo, graphics and music, and introduced a "border" around the anchor which contained excessive amounts of information and took up most of the screen. This change earned the network much lampooning and criticism, being called a "jumbled mess" by ''[[American Newspapers|USA Today]]''. In 2005, the network responded to these criticisms by scaling back the amount of on-screen information. However, the change was likely justified as many viewers started getting basic news without elaboration [[Technology Marches On|from the Internet]], and the network began to lose audience and purpose as they realized that only an older audience needed the data-packed half-hour format as time went on.
This forced a slow shift in direction for the network. It also started airing live programs in [[Prime Time]] (moving the rolling news coverage back to daytime) and putting a greater focus on celebrity news, [[If It Bleeds, It Leads|violent crimes]] and [[Missing White Woman Syndrome|missing white women]]. [[Network Decay]] was setting in at the network (which would be renamed HLN, after its EPG abbreviation, in 2008), but the shift was proving to be a success, earning the network higher [[Ratings]] than it ever did as well as reducing the amount of celebrity coverage on CNN. Time Warner also created an artificial format change in 2009, as HLN's sister network Court TV was rebranded to Tru TV with a reality format, and most of their trial coverage bumped over to HLN.
With the retirement of the final old-line Headline News anchor, Chuck Roberts in 2010, the final strings from the old format were broken, and now the rolling news block features most of the elements of the evening portion of the schedule. The Casey Anthony trial took over the entire network over the spring and summer of 2011, taking [[Adored
Currently, HLN's [[Prime Time]] (which is defined as starting at 5pm ET by them) lineup includes:
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* ''Prime News'', a former straight news show title used by CNN and re-adapted to run down whatever awful and inane human interest stories CNN wants nowhere near their newscasts. Known for 'viewer interactivity', but most of this involves the [[Cloudcuckoolander|same people you find when you dare venture below the story end]] into a news website's comments section.
* ''Issues with Jane Velez-Mitchell'', a fast-paced hour of true crime stories, celebrity scandal and stuff that's usually in the "wacky file" of most other news shows.
* ''Nancy Grace'', a legal program starring the eponymous former [[Atlanta]] prosecutor. She is (in)famous for her confrontational style, her hatred of defense attorneys, and her zeal for seeing people get sent to jail, to the point where this very wiki once had a page dealing with [
* ''Dr. Drew'', another show featuring the [[Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?|constantly working]] celebridoctor dealing allegedly with hot topic news stories with his own psychological view of the stories, though more often than not it's usually a [[Product Placement]] slot for his newest television project or he deals with whatever HLN wants him to cover for the night.
* ''Showbiz Tonight'', which promotes itself as "entertainment's most provocative newsmagazine", though 90% of the time [[Never Trust a Trailer|it really isn't]]. Pretty much what you would see if Jezebel, Radar Online or Us Weekly had their own TV show, "provocative" meaning the usual "four people in boxes talk over each other for five minutes" style of debate, only about [[Lindsay Lohan]] instead of political topics. Before being rebooted here in 2008, when it was on CNN it was just about the most staid and straight-laced entertainment news program you could find on television.
* Repurposed [[Filler]] reruns of programming that hasn't aired on Tru TV (the former Court TV) since their rebrand on Saturday nights such as ''The Investigators'' and ''Body of Evidence''. Your run-of-the-mill "recap of a crime show" with the usual medical examiners, cops, victims and suspects getting their piece in.
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