ANNOUNCER: Bringing you the world for 20 years, this is CNN.</s>DEBORAH MARCHINI, CNN ANCHOR: Good morning and welcome to the first moments of our brand new network, CNNfn, Financial Network. I'm Deborah Marchini.</s>DEBRA KOCHER, VICE PRESIDENT, FINANCIAL NEWS: There was always this idea that, at some point, we wanted to try to start a 24- or at least a full 12-hour network of financial news. We felt there was a market for it and finally got approval.</s>STUART VARNEY, CNN ANCHOR: We'll be here each week day morning to kick off 12 hours of nonstop coverage of business and financial news -- news that's important to you.</s>KOCHER: I think we basically just try to be the best business news and information service as there is around. But at the same time, we want to be entertaining, we want to have some fun, and we want to bring people some depth of programming that they may not get somewhere else.</s>STEVE YOUNG, CNN CORRESPONDENT: This year, IBM joined an elite corporate club with lifetime revenues of $1 trillion.</s>KOCHER: We have great reporters with good sources. We have the wire services. There's breaking news that we're going to chase just like any other network. We have good, strong, hard-working business news journalists who are out there every day just trying to report. We've gone from a single nightly half hour and a single weekend show to a 24-hour network now, international programming. We do four hours of live programming out of London and Hong Kong combined on CNN International. We are a, you know, a major division within CNN that supplies business news programming to all the other units, and we also have our own channel.
CNN 20: CNNfn Debuts, December 29, 1995