But Ted Turner, the station's founder, was convinced that television is the source of most of the public's information and that technological advances would allow the faster dissemination of news via satellite. Moreover, the three major American networks were the only source of TV news at that time, and local stations had long complained about the arbitrary pricing policy of the networks.
但創辦 CNN 的泰德透納堅信，電視是一般民眾吸收資訊的主要來源，科技進步讓衛星加快新聞的傳送速度，而美國當時只有三大電視網有新聞，各地方台對三大網漫天叫價的行徑，早有所怨言。