IMO, there's a viable business model for "background news". CNN feels like a channel you could set the TVs in waiting rooms to and not cause a fuss. They aren

IMO, there's a viable business model for "background news". CNN feels like a channel you could set the TVs in waiting rooms to and not cause a fuss. They aren't as politically loaded as MSNBC or Fox, and the programming is bland yet is unlikely to cause people to ask to change the channel. It also seems like the default stop on hotel TVs, which I assume are designed to power up on the same channel to reduce the risk the last guest left it tuned to PPV porn. I suppose that was basically the explicit intent of the old Headline News/HLN product, "waiting room TV" in its purest form.