Headline News
originally aired on TBS
HLN was originally launched on January 1, 1982, by Turner Broadcasting as CNN2 (later renamed Headline News) The channel was a sister network to CNN that broadcast a looping, half-hour cycle of segments covering various news topics. In 2005, HLN began to diverge from this format and air more personality-based programs, including a primetime block featuring pundits such as Glenn Beck and legal commentator Nancy Grace. In the mid-2010s, the channel repositioned itself as a social media-centric network, highlighting headlines popular on social networks. HLN became a sister to Discovery's true-crime channel Investigation Discovery in 2022.