When talking about which TV station ACN stands for, the teacher first popularized the fact that ACN does exist in reality. In Sorkin's pen, ACN stands for Atlantis Cable Television Network. In fact, the ACN TV network does exist in Canada. ACN companies registered in Canada mainly provide Internet services and telephone services (similar to China Telecom). There is also a registered ACN company in the United States. Its main profit comes from selling knives and watches. In 2000, the company changed its name to Jewelry Channel and still retains the legal right to use this ACN. Obviously Sorkin's ACN has nothing to do with these two companies, so is there such a TV station or such a news program in the United States? The final discussion between the two is biased towards ABC or CBS.
Let's take a brief look at the major TV stations in the United States: CBS, ABC, CNN, NBC, FOX, HBO, ESPN, UPN, TNT, SNI.
CBS is the American Columbia Broadcasting Corporation, which is funded by advertising and broadcasting revenue, and its parent company is the famous Via Com TV Group. CBS's programming is dominated by news and entertainment. For a long time, the ratings ranked first among the three major broadcasters. The company is headquartered in New York.
ABC's full name is the American Broadcasting Corporation, one of the three major commercial radio and television companies in the United States, and its funding comes from advertising broadcasting. The parent company is now the more famous Disney. The company is headquartered in New York.
NBC's full name is National Broadcasting Corporation, one of the three major commercial broadcast and television companies in the United States, and its funding comes from advertising revenue. The company is headquartered in New York, and its parent company is known as General Electric.
Of course, those who have seen the plot must know that, similar to Murdoch's FOX or National Geographic, ESPN can never be the prototype of ACN. Why is ABC closer to ACN? Sorkin's White House "THE WEST WING" was a great success in the United States, and taught industry peers that political films can actually be made like this. The TV station that broadcasted and cooperated with Sorkin at that time was NBC's GM, and Sports Night signed with ABC. , at the end of the second season, ABC rejected the request to continue to invest in filming. It's very similar to the 44th floor leadership who wanted Daniels to be fired in pursuit of ratings. Judging from this, Sorkin may be alluding to ABC.
But infer from another important plot, the 7 o'clock news in the United States (the evening news set in the show is 8 o'clock) is more prominent in the 60 minutes of CBS, while the 10 o'clock news is generally called evening news, such as CBS evening news Or ABC evening news. (It may be the show of DON and Elliott) And the beautiful anchor in CBS is Lara Logan, who was born in Durban, South Africa. She is a veritable war correspondent, which is similar to the experience of the heroine.
Of course, these are some basic information and basic conjectures. The world Sorkin wants to express must be more than limited to these trivial things. From this point of view, the content of this article is a bit gossip. I don't like to spray.
PS: The Indian boy is the pride of the British, and when the British themselves admire him, he is worthy of Oscar, worthy of the comrade-in-arms of AMEN in the fifth episode, and worthy of the witness of the London subway bombing.
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