CNN on Monday went reside from a brand new state-of-the-art broadcasting facility in Abu Dhabi being touted as a brand new chapter within the community’s dedication to the Middle East.
The new high-tech CNN bureau, with a 10-million-pixel video wall and a set of totally robotic HD cameras, is situated on Abu Dhabi’s synthetic Yas Island within the new Yas Creative Hub established to lure media industries to Abu Dhabi by twofour54, the federal government entity which is implementing the UAE’s capital metropolis’s media and leisure trade effort.
The new CNN hub, which additionally contains 4 enhancing suites and a contemporary open-plan newsroom, will increase the size and scope of its UAE operation boosting Abu Dhabi’s position as “one of many community’s key worldwide manufacturing hubs, alongside Atlanta, New York, London, and Hong Kong,” CNN stated in a press release.
Since 2009, when the community first opened its bureau within the Emirate, Abu Dhabi has develop into more and more vital for CNN globally. In 2014 it turned the bottom for “Connect the World with Becky Anderson” and is now additionally dwelling to a few of CNN’s best-known characteristic information packages, together with “Decoded,” and “Marketplace Middle East,” in addition to CNN Digital properties, such because the community’s “Meanwhile within the Middle East publication.”
The new Abu Dhabi bureau marks the most recent funding in expertise and editorial manufacturing for CNN in recent times. The community started broadcasting from its new studios in New York in 2019, adopted by its high-tech services in London in 2020. CNN will quickly be broadcasting from model new studios in Atlanta, in response to the assertion.
“CNN Abu Dhabi is a crucial a part of our international information gathering and programming operation. This new funding underscores that significance, and we’re excited to share what it would deliver to our audiences world wide,” stated Mike McCarthy, EVP and normal supervisor CNN International.
“This new facility actually supercharges our operation in Abu Dhabi,” underlined Becky Anderson, who’s anchor and managing editor at CNN Abu Dhabi. “Everything we now have constructed right here enhances our capability to inform tales from this area and past, from the state-of-the-art studio and manufacturing services, by to the workspace itself, which is geared in direction of collaborative, multi-platform content material creation.”
