Article: Satellite spotlight: CNN buys into Germany's N-TV station. (Cable News Network becomes largest shareholder in broadcasting station)

Cable News Network (CNN), the Atlanta-based pioneer of 24-hour television news, became the biggest shareholder recently of Germany's N-TV broadcasting station.

CNN's purchase of 27.5 percent of N-TV, which began in November in Berlin with round-the-clock programming, raises the stakes in Germany's hotly contested television market.

"N-TV and CNN are an unbeatable team in Germany," said N-TV CEO Karl-Ulrich Kuhlo. CNN, which shot to prominence through its coverage of the Gulf-War, had been talking with Germany's publicly owned ZDF TV station about ...

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