Even more critical is a firm grasp of the market. The American all-news station Cable News Network (CNN) began broadcasting in 1980, and was once ridiculed as the "Chicken Noodle Network." Those in the US television industry wondered where the station would find enough news to fill up its 24-hour programming day.
美國全新聞頻道 CNN 在一九八○年開播時，曾被嘲笑為「雞湯麵電視網」，美國電視界質疑 CNN 怎麼可能找到塞滿二十四小時的新聞，只能拿些湯湯水水的小事來填塞。