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'''HLN''' is a [[24-Hour News Networks|24-hour news network]] that was spun off from [[Cable News Network|CNN]]. The channel was established as CNN2 in 1982, partly in order to double-team [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] and Westinghouse's Satellite News Channel (which had a similar format) out of existence, and changed its name to CNN Headline News the following year, although use of the word "CNN" in the title was always fairly intermittent. Its original focus was a 30-minute newscast called the Headline News Wheel which filled viewers in on the day's most prominent stories, repeated on a 24-hour loop, thus allowing viewers to catch up on a day's worth of news in just half an hour, any time of the day (something that is very useful in places like airports and bars). There would be general news at the top and bottom of the hour taking up half the program, personal finance reports (known as "Dollars and Sense") at the 15 minute mark, sports at 20 minutes, the "Hollywood Minute" immediately after sports, and lifestyle reports in the last five minutes. This is the format that CNN Headline News enjoyed for over twenty years. In this form Headline News was also easily adaptable for radio, and stations that wanted a dependable "all-news" format would air the audio of the network, giving Headline News a second, though less obvious audience. It also syndicated its live feed to broadcast channels that wanted to air something other than a test pattern between 2:30 and 5-6:00 am.
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.
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