Financial News Network

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Financial News Network

Screen caption of channel logo and the network's original iteration of its ticker.
Country	United States
Broadcast area	United States
Affiliates	See Below
Headquarters	Santa Monica, California, later Rockefeller Center and Los Angeles, California
Programming
Language(s)	English
Picture format	480i (SDTV)
Ownership
Owner	Rodney Buchser, Dr. Glen H. Taylor and Merrill Lynch (1981–1991) CNBC (1991)
Key people	Rodney Buchser Glen H. Taylor
Sister channels	SCORE
History
Launched	November 30, 1981; 42 years ago (1981-11-30)
Closed	May 21, 1991; 32 years ago (1991-05-21)
Replaced by	CNBC Bloomberg Television

The Financial News Network (FNN) was an American financial and business news television network that was launched November 30, 1981. The purpose of the network was to broadcast programming nationwide, five days a week for seven hours a day on thirteen stations, in an effort to expand the availability of business news for public dissemination. FNN was founded by Glen H. Taylor, a former minister of the Christian Church from 1950 to 1956, and producer of films for the California Department of Education.^[1] The channel was purchased by NBC in February 1991, and operations were integrated with rival cable financial news network, CNBC, on May 21, 1991.