CNN+

CNN+
Launched	January 27, 1999 (1999-01-27)
Closed	December 28, 2010 (2010-12-28)
Owned by	Turner Broadcasting System Europe Parent: Time Warner Sogecable
Picture format	576i (SDTV)
Slogan	(Spanish) (It's happening; you're watching it)
Country	Spain
Language	Spanish
Broadcast area	Nationwide
Headquarters	Tres Cantos
Replaced by	Gran Hermano coverage
Availability
Terrestrial
Digital	Mux 67
Satellite
Digital+	Channel 70
Cable
R	Channel 55
IPTV
Imagenio	Channel 3
Orange TV	Channel 76

CNN+ (CNN Plus) was a Spanish 24-hour television news channel. Launched in 1999 as a joint venture by Sogecable and by Turner Broadcasting, a unit of Time Warner that owns CNN; it went off the air at the end of 28 December 2010.

The management announced that CNN+ would be closed in 31 December 2010.

The slogan of CNN Plus was Está pasando, lo estás viendo (It's happening, you're watching it). By 2008, there were other 24-hour television channels — Intereconomía TV and TVE 24h — and CNN plus was no longer the audience leader in this type of general information.

In 18 December 2009, the channels of Sogecable, a PRISA business, merged into the Mediaset group, who already controlled Spain's Telecinco channel.

The station went off the air at 11:59 p.m. (Spanish time) on 28 December 2010, and was replaced with 24-hour coverage of the reality show Gran Hermano, the Spanish version of Big Brother owned by Mediaset.

Management team (2008)

• News Department Director: Juan Pedro Valentín
• News Department Assistant Director: Javier Ruiz
• CNN+ News Director: Antonio San José
• CNN+ News Assistant Director: Victoria Lafora

External links

• CNN+ at LyngSat Address