Simulcasts Between CNNI and CNN/US
CNNI simulcasts CNN/US newscasts whenever major events happen in the United States or around the world. Examples include the death and funeral of Ronald Reagan, the crash of Continental Airlines Flight 3407 in the Buffalo suburb of Clarence Center, the Hudson river plane landing, the attempted Christmas Day bombing of flight 253 and the death and memorial service of Michael Jackson as well as scheduled events such as US elections, Presidential inaugurations and the annual New Year's Eve ball drop from Times Square.
Likewise, CNN/US occasionally turns to CNNI newscasts, primarily when major international news breaks during overnight hours in the US. A notable case was during the death of Pope John Paul II and the aftermath of the London Underground bombings of July 7, 2005. CNN/US simulcast CNNI coverage of the death of Pakistan's former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on the night after her assassination took place. Simulcasts also happened from November 27 to 29, 2008 due to the terror attacks in Mumbai, India, January 4, 2009 when Israel launched strikes into Gaza, and during the early hours of January 14, 2010 due to the earthquake in Haiti. During such simulcasts, CNN/US takes the CNNI feed – including ticker and the white DOG (which is used on CNNI to distinguish between CNN/US, which uses a black DOG).
Although dramatically scaled down since its early days, CNNI draws from feed of the main CNN channel for Piers Morgan Tonight which is also repeated twice daily, the (live) 9 a.m. hour of State of the Union with Candy Crowley, all editions of Anderson Cooper 360°, and some CNN Special Investigations Unit documentaries. Your Money, Erin Burnett Out Front and the Saturday edition of The Situation Room are not seen live on CNNI but are seen hours after their original broadcast.
Since mid-2011, the lower bar of CNNUS containing headlines has been covered and replaced by CNNI's lower bar except during AC360 when the former's lower bar is used to supplement its show.
From 2005 until early 2008, CNNI's Your World Today aired on CNN/US during the 12.00-13.00 ET timeslot. That program was initially pre-empted by Issue #1, a domestic personal finance program dealing with topics regarding the American economic, financial, and housing sectors and permanently replaced by another hour of CNN Newsroom in September 2008.
During the Atlanta tornado outbreak in March 2008, CNN/US and CNNI simulcasted coverage after Anderson Cooper 360° ended. That coverage ended around 12:40am EDT and the stations resumed their normal programming. Furthermore, the next day, with storms impending, CNN/US had to move onto CNNI's US news set and weather center to avoid water from possible flooding during the storms.
On January 17, 2011 CNN/US dropped its early morning rebroadcasts of ParkerSpitzer and Anderson Cooper 360° during the 4-6 a.m. ET time period, and began to simulcast World Business Today and World One from CNNI in those slots. Both newscasts the only programs broadcast entirely in the 4:3 picture format on CNN/US' standard-definition and high-definition feeds (the SD feed of CNN/US switched to a widescreen letterbox screen format on January 11, 2011). World One was dropped from CNN/US just a few months later to give way to an extra hour of American Morning.
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