CNN Web Sites Break Traffic Records Four Consecutive Weekdays.Business Editors & Technology Writers ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 20, 2000 CNN.com set traffic records four consecutive weekdays beginning Thursday, Oct. 12. With 40,150,668 page impressions on Oct. 12, the sites set a number-one record, then followed with a new high for number two on Tuesday, Oct. 17, with more than 35 million page impressions. In addition, Friday, Oct. 13, and Monday, Oct. 16, garnered more than 32 million and 31 million page impressions, respectively, also falling within CNN CNN or Cable News Network Subsidiary company of Turner Broadcasting Systems. It was created by Ted Turner in 1980 to present 24-hour live news broadcasts, using satellites to transmit reports from news bureaus around the world. .com's list of top 10 traffic days. The CNN Web sites posted regular updates as tensions escalated in the Middle East, terrorists attacked a U.S. Navy destroyer destroyer, class of warship very fast relative to its length, generally equipped with torpedos, antisubmarine equipment, and medium-caliber and antiaircraft guns. The newest destroyers are equipped with guided missiles as their chief offensive weapon. in Yemen, the Dow Jones Industrial Average Dow Jones Industrial Average The best known U.S. index of stocks. A price-weighted average of 30 actively traded blue-chip stocks, primarily industrials including stocks that trade on the New York Stock Exchange. plummeted and the U.S. presidential race heated up with a third and final debate between George W. Bush and Al Gore Noun 1. Al Gore - Vice President of the United States under Bill Clinton (born in 1948) Albert Gore Jr., Gore on Oct. 17. The sites continue to offer the latest information complemented by streaming video A one-way video transmission over a data network. It is widely used on the Web as well as company networks to play video clips and video broadcasts. Computers in home networks stream video to digital media hubs connected to a home theater. , audio, photo galleries and links to related message boards, chats, stories, sites and sections, including the CNN.com exclusive special section, The Mideast Struggle for Peace. CNN Interactive is responsible for the award-winning news site CNN.com, as well as 13 other Web sites and the distribution of CNN news content via other platforms such as mobile phones. The CNN sites, which include nine international sites, are among the world's leading news and information destinations and are ranked the most trusted by Internet users Internet user n → internauta m/f Internet user Internet n → internaute m/f worldwide. The CNN sites rank number one in Gross Usage Minutes among all online news sites. Gross Usage Minutes are an industry metric derived by multiplying unique users by time spent per user. The CNN Web sites produced 130,691,000 Gross Usage Minutes for August 2000. |
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