CNN en Español

CNN en Español
Country	United States; Puerto Rico; Chile; Argentina; Mexico; Colombia
Broadcast area	United States; Latin America (except Cuba)
Headquarters	CNN Center; Atlanta, Georgia
Programming
Language(s)	Spanish
Picture format	HDTV 1080i; (downscaled to 480i/576i for the SD feed)
Ownership
Owner	Warner Bros. Discovery Americas
Parent	CNN Worldwide
Sister channels	CNN; CNN-News18; CNN International; HLN; CNN Chile; CNN Brazil; CNN Türk; CNN Portugal
History
Launched	March 17, 1997; 27 years ago
Links
Website	cnnespanol.cnn.com
Availability
Terrestrial
Antina; (Argentina)	Channel 30
Tigo Star; (Paraguay)	Channel 70
Streaming media
DirecTV	Channel 419; (United States); Channel 704; (Latin America)
Hulu + Live TV	Internet Protocol television
YouTube TV	Internet Protocol Television

Cable News Network en Español (known as CNN en Español, stylized as CN͠N) is a Pan-American Spanish-language news channel, owned by CNN Worldwide, a news division for Warner Bros. Discovery. It was launched on pay television, on March 17, 1997.

History

CNN en Español before 1997

In 1988, CNN began producing news in Spanish with Noticiero CNN, aimed at Spanish-speaking audiences in the United States and Latin America.

In 1992, CNN International started the Noticiero CNN Internacional, the first in Spanish on that channel. Other programs in Spanish were Las Noticias and Noticias México, all of them presented by the Colombian Patricia Janiot and the Uruguayan Jorge Gestoso, and with the direction of Rolando Santos. The following year, CNN en Español Radio was launched.

Launch (1997)

On March 17, 1997, CNN en Español began broadcasting 24 hours a day. In addition, the chain's production centers begin to operate in Buenos Aires and Havana. The correspondent in the Cuban capital was the first office of a U.S. organization on the island.

2010 change

In 2010, CNN en Español debuted a new logo, with a new programming lineup.

2022

On February 14, 2022, CNN en Español started broadcasts in 16:9.

Availability

CNN en Español is available throughout Hispanic America, and the United States.^[1] In Canada, a number of the network's shows are simulcast on Univision Canada.^[2] In Venezuela and Nicaragua, the channel is available via live-streaming on YouTube and its official website since 2017 and 2022 respectively.

On February 15, 2017, Venezuela's National Commission of Telecommunications (Conatel) blocked CNN en Español from any national TV provider, saying a report from the network regarding passport fraud was "a threat to the peace and democratic stability" of the nation.^[3] Conatel additionally blocked sister network CNN International and BBC World News on April 30, 2019 during an uprising attempt.

On September 22, 2022, CNN en Español was taken off the air from all cable providers in Nicaragua by order of the Nicaraguan Institute of Telecommunications and Post Office (TELCOR).^[4]^[5]

Programming

Live coverage

CNN en Español provides live coverage of some news and sporting events held by Turner channels via Warner Bros. Discovery Sports), and from 2016 until 2021, carried the Spanish-language audio for Major League Baseball postseason games carried by sister network TBS only in the United States and Latin America (there were no changes to the English-language visual presentation).^[6] CNN en Español features newscasts throughout the day.^[7] In 2022, the coverage moved to MLB Network, with added graphical translation.