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Alphabet News Network
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One of the most common go to names for a fictional TV news program is to add a usually-random letter to "NN" (or in some cases, two letters to "N") as a reference to CNN ("Cable News Network"). Popular choices for the first word in the acronym are a reference to the area the network covers (such as Galaxy or Global) or a reference to the work. Often the logo will be inspired by the CNN logo as well. Subtrope of Brand X. Can overlap with Fun with Acronyms. |
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Sherlock: CAM Global News, owned by season three antagonist Charles Augustus Magnussen. | |
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''The Kraken Wakes by John Wyndham: The protagonist and his wife work as a correspondent and scriptwriter respectively for the English Broadcasting Company, a commercial radio and TV network that's implied to be a fairly recent development.note Which doubles as a minor case of Ripped from the Headlines, because when the book was first published Parliament was still debating whether or not to permit commercial television networks at all. Interviewees mistakenly believing that they're from the BBC instead is something of a running gag. | |
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The Master of Orion games have the GNN (Galactic News Network) reporting some random events and statistics. The anchor is, naturally, a robot.note A snarky one, at that. | |
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Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues also has a news network called GNN, which the main characters work for. | |
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Averted in XIII. The channel broadcasting president Wally Sheridan's "judgement" is ABS, a clear cross of ABC and CBS. | |
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Parodied in Inside Job (2021) where one of the two political news networks Cognito runs is called MSCNNBCNBBC. | |
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Earth Defense Force: Iron Rain has UNN, Universal News Network, as what seems to be the sole surviving news broadcaster after an alien invasion wrecked the Earth. The broadcasts serve as a sort of Greek Chorus giving a view of the player character's squad's actions in the larger war, albeit with a strong dose of cheerleading and propaganda. | |
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FreedomToons: The MSNBS network, which hosts the incredibly biased show The Echo Chamber. | |
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Osmosis Jones has NNN. Since it takes place inside the human body, the first N stands for Nerve. | |
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The All Dogs Go to Heaven Christmas Special has CCN. | |
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Metal Wolf Chaos has DNN. | |
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Countdown to Looking Glass has CVN. "CVN" is the U. S. Navy designation for a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. Appropriate, given the subject of the film... |
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Star Trek: Picard has the Federation News Network, or FNN. | |
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ANNO: Mutationem: A Loading Screen features a reporter doing a news report under WTV announcing pieces of information about on-going events around the world. | |
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Pokémon Diamond and Pearl has Sinnoh News Net, which, while not abbreviated in the game, does make SNN if you do abbreviate it. | |
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Batman Forever and The Dark Knight uses GNN, "The Gotham News Network" to provide exposition. | |
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Brass Eye would air broadcasts from affiliate station 10NN in all news stories from the United States, as did the preceding series from the same writers, The Day Today. | |
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Vampirina has Transylvania News Network. | |
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Mobile Suit Gundam 00 had JNN. May double as Product Placement in that JNN is a real world network, as it is the news division of TBS, the broadcaster for the series. | |
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In Animalympics, the Animalympics news coverage is broadcast on ZOO. | |
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Alpha Protocol shows a TV displaying INN. | |
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The camera in Super Mario 64 is operated by Lakitu, who is an employee of KNN- Kingdom News Network. | |
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The film version of Atlas Shrugged inverts this with NNT. | |
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Since 24 aired on FOX, it often showed news broadcasts from FOX News, but also sometimes used its own version of CNN called CNB. This also appeared on Homeland and Tyrant (2014), both also by 24 showrunner Howard Gordon. | |
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When Randy Orton was sidelined with an injury in 2002, WWE kept him on television in humorous weekly vignettes in which he updated fans on his medical condition; these were done under the heading of "Randy News Network" or "RNN". | |
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Jerkcity has JNN (Jerkcity News Network). | |
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Sesame Street has RNN where the R stands for Ridiculous. Hence the name, Monty reports this with he wonders to do and Big Bird can't seem to define. GNN: the G stands for Grouch and the network is all dirty. Oscar reports the stories about him before his lover Grundgetta gave him a Phlegmmy Award. VNN: the V stands for Vegetable. reported by a Cucumber named Anderson. MNN: the M stands for Monster. Elmo is the chief anchor, Cookie Monster as a sound mocking science reporter, Prairie as a special commentator, and a slew of special international correspondents. the motto is where 2 monster mascots cover its globe. |
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Buck Williams in the 2000-2005 Left Behind films works for Global News Network, also GNN. | |
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In Origins, a Mass Effect/Star Wars/Borderlands/Halo Massive Multiplayer Crossover, the Home Galaxy (of Star Wars fame) has the Galaxy News Network (GNN), Galaxy News Service (GNS), and Nova Network (NN). | |
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Desert Strike and its sequel, Jungle Strike both feature EANN, Electronic Arts News Network. | |
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Black Market has the Tricorp News Network, TNN, provide commentary (and exposition) at key moments. | |
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Jessica Jones (2015): At the start of season 2, Trish Walker's boyfriend Griffin is a war correspondent at ZCN, who have a CNN graphics package with slightly altered logo. | |
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Diamanda Hagan: Hagan noted that the no-budget Caught Up in the Rapture movie Apocalypse has a WNN, which is entirely unlike GNN from the much more famous Left Behind (2000) movie. (To be fair, Apocalypse predates the Left Behind movie, while the book didn't feature GNN.) The review is then interupted by one of Hagan's minions with an HNN special report about the skirmishes being fought over the few remaining available letters. | |
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Schlock Mercenary has the HyperNet News Network, or HN3. | |
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The Star Trek Novel 'Verse has the Federation News Network, later seen in Star Trek: Picard and Star Trek: Lower Decks. | |
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The Next Frontier has the odd reference to KBS News, the initials standing for Kerbin Broadcasting Service. | |
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In the world of dragons in Spyro the Dragon (1998) there is DNN (Dragon News Network). | |
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Star Wars Uncut: ENN the "Empire News Network" brings you Talking Heads discussing the Imperial Senate being dissolved. | |
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Helen Hannah in the Apocalypse film series works for World News Network, WNN. | |
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Milo Murphy's Law has DNN. | |
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Elite Dangerous has GalNet, which doesn't have an abbreviated form but serves as the game's primary source of exposition for many events that happen in the Galaxy that players can actively influence (unless it's detailing the clout surrounding the president of The Federation or The Empire's succession crisis). | |
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Escape Velocity Nova has the Hyper News Network (the Federation's news service). Interestingly, it is actually the only news service shown in the game whose acronym ends in "N" despite every one being built on a three-word structure with three-letter acronyms shown — there's two News Services, two News Corps, two Info Commands, one Info Service and one Intel Corps. The two earlier games had their newsnote it was only in Nova that the engine allowed the news image to be different for different governments fit the basic model of the trope, though with the acronyms not quite being what one would think from looking at the full names — Classic has the Interstellar News Network using the acronym ISN, while Override had the United Earth News Network with the acronym UEN. | |
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Negativland, in its incarnation as a The Firesign Theatre-esque avant-garde surrealist radio theater group instigated by master culture jammer Don Joyce, had the Universal Media Netweb, often referred to as UMN. All of Joyce's creations including his weekly KPFA show Over the Edge were presented under the aegis of UMN and its mind-breaking or mind-controlling (or mind-liberating) agenda. UMN was founded by C. Elliot Friday, the wealthiest man in the solar sphere, who lives on Howland Island, runs Fridatronics Industries and still (despite Joyce's untimely death) runs for President of the United States every four years on the Universal Party ticket. Casual listeners are probably most familiar with Crosley Bendix, UMN's Director of Stylistic Premonitions and Cultural/Arts Reviewer. He's the one who proposed a fourth primary color, "Squant". UMN's biggest competitor is ABS, the American Broadcasting System, which runs "The Piddle Diddle Report", investigating and criticizing Friday and his empire. | |
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Cars has RSN (Racing Sports Network). | |
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| Alphabet News Network / int_76b8cb10 | comment |
The Fallout universe has a Galaxy News Network (GNN). Although "Galaxy News Network" appears in the first Fallout game, the acronym "GNN" doesn't appear with any prominence (other than a single note in Fallout 2) in-universe until Fallout 4, where it is featured on banners and billboards. | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_76b8cb10 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_76b8cb10 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Fallout (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Alphabet News Network / int_76b8cb10 | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_78669792 | type |
Alphabet News Network | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_78669792 | comment |
The Escapist has ENN. | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_78669792 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_78669792 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Escapist (Website) | hasFeature |
Alphabet News Network / int_78669792 | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_791e7b7f | type |
Alphabet News Network | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_791e7b7f | comment |
Zootopia has ZNN. The anchors are a female snow leopard and (depending on the region) a male moose (US, UK, Canada and most of Europe), jaguar (Brazil), koala (Australia), panda (China), or raccoon dog (Japan). | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_791e7b7f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_791e7b7f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Zootopia | hasFeature |
Alphabet News Network / int_791e7b7f | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_792b8174 | type |
Alphabet News Network | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_792b8174 | comment |
In Network it's UBS — Union Broadcasting System. | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_792b8174 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_792b8174 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Network | hasFeature |
Alphabet News Network / int_792b8174 | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_7ecbd52e | type |
Alphabet News Network | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_7ecbd52e | comment |
The Horde has the Franzpowanki News Network (FNN), which broadcasts on Crystal Ball. | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_7ecbd52e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_7ecbd52e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Horde (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Alphabet News Network / int_7ecbd52e | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_7fc53da4 | type |
Alphabet News Network | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_7fc53da4 | comment |
The Magic School Bus has FNN. | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_7fc53da4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_7fc53da4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| TheMagicSchoolBus | hasFeature |
Alphabet News Network / int_7fc53da4 | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_852cd420 | type |
Alphabet News Network | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_852cd420 | comment |
The Flintstones plays with this. They use the CNN initials, but it's called the Cave News Network. | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_852cd420 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_852cd420 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Flintstones | hasFeature |
Alphabet News Network / int_852cd420 | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_87b55b5d | type |
Alphabet News Network | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_87b55b5d | comment |
The Onion is the owner of the Onion News Network, or [Onion logo]NN. | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_87b55b5d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_87b55b5d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Onion (Website) | hasFeature |
Alphabet News Network / int_87b55b5d | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_8dba224e | type |
Alphabet News Network | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_8dba224e | comment |
In the episode "Terry Unmarried" on The Cleveland Show, there's an inversion. After Cleveland figures out Terry's gay, he freaks out and his babbling becomes scrolling details with a headline. At the bottom left, you see CNN and directly under it, you see Cleveland News Network. | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_8dba224e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_8dba224e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Cleveland Show | hasFeature |
Alphabet News Network / int_8dba224e | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_92844ddb | type |
Alphabet News Network | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_92844ddb | comment |
Dinosaurs has DNN, the Dinosaur News Network. | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_92844ddb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_92844ddb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Dinosaurs | hasFeature |
Alphabet News Network / int_92844ddb | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_92916f5b | type |
Alphabet News Network | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_92916f5b | comment |
Shrek 2 features ME! TV (Medieval Entertainment Television), complete with E!-style logo. | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_92916f5b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_92916f5b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Shrek 2 | hasFeature |
Alphabet News Network / int_92916f5b | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_97ce01ba | type |
Alphabet News Network | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_97ce01ba | comment |
Bee Movie has BNN (Bee News Network) airing Bee Larry King (do you see a pattern?). | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_97ce01ba | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_97ce01ba | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Bee Movie | hasFeature |
Alphabet News Network / int_97ce01ba | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_98835d78 | type |
Alphabet News Network | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_98835d78 | comment |
Gone To Ground has DNN (Da Nooz Network). | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_98835d78 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_98835d78 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Gone To Ground (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Alphabet News Network / int_98835d78 | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_9a0cb5f4 | type |
Alphabet News Network | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_9a0cb5f4 | comment |
Bob's Burgers has the student-run news program at the kids' school, WSN (Wagstaff School News). | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_9a0cb5f4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_9a0cb5f4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Bob's Burgers | hasFeature |
Alphabet News Network / int_9a0cb5f4 | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_9f9cfd02 | type |
Alphabet News Network | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_9f9cfd02 | comment |
Grandville has CNN, but it's the main news channel of the French Empire, and stands for Canal des Nouvelles Nationales. | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_9f9cfd02 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_9f9cfd02 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grandville (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Alphabet News Network / int_9f9cfd02 | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_a183d57f | type |
Alphabet News Network | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_a183d57f | comment |
A Futurama episode had it revealed that Atlanta's bigshots would eventually move the town into the ocean. CNN was then renamed ''SeaNN''. | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_a183d57f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_a183d57f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Futurama | hasFeature |
Alphabet News Network / int_a183d57f | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_a5041f68 | type |
Alphabet News Network | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_a5041f68 | comment |
One of the playable factions in Android: Netrunner is NBN, which changed what it stands for so often that NBN became its whole name. | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_a5041f68 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_a5041f68 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Netrunner (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Alphabet News Network / int_a5041f68 | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_a6543322 | type |
Alphabet News Network | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_a6543322 | comment |
Touhou Project fandom knows CNN as "Cirno News Network", thanks to some pretty bad Cowboy BeBop at His Computer. | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_a6543322 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_a6543322 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Touhou Project (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Alphabet News Network / int_a6543322 | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_a9f06cb6 | type |
Alphabet News Network | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_a9f06cb6 | comment |
The VeggieTales episode "Sumo of the Opera" is Japan-themed, and has ESN (Emperor's Sports Network), a cross between CNN and ESPN. | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_a9f06cb6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_a9f06cb6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| VeggieTales | hasFeature |
Alphabet News Network / int_a9f06cb6 | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_ad417bd5 | type |
Alphabet News Network | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_ad417bd5 | comment |
Liberty's Kids has LNN, the brief game-like segments shown when it was initially aired on PBS Kids. | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_ad417bd5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_ad417bd5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Liberty's Kids | hasFeature |
Alphabet News Network / int_ad417bd5 | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_b003fc97 | type |
Alphabet News Network | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_b003fc97 | comment |
The Morning Show is all about- who would have thought?- a morning news/talk show on the fictional UBA network. | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_b003fc97 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_b003fc97 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Morning Show | hasFeature |
Alphabet News Network / int_b003fc97 | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_b0fc9724 | type |
Alphabet News Network | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_b0fc9724 | comment |
Parodied in the Saturday Night Live crossover parody between Joker (2019) and Sesame Street, where Guy Smiley is the anchor at ABCDEFG News. | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_b0fc9724 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_b0fc9724 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Saturday Night Live | hasFeature |
Alphabet News Network / int_b0fc9724 | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_bcb32dc6 | type |
Alphabet News Network | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_bcb32dc6 | comment |
In Shadowrun, CNN itself became NN (NewsNet) when it was re-organized in accordance with Ted Turner's will. | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_bcb32dc6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_bcb32dc6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Shadowrun (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Alphabet News Network / int_bcb32dc6 | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_bd41836e | type |
Alphabet News Network | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_bd41836e | comment |
StarCraft and especially StarCraft II have UNN (Universal News Network) as the primary news source for Terran civilization, and the propaganda outlet for whatever government currently controls it. The network plays a large role in some stories set in the Expanded Universe as well. | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_bd41836e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_bd41836e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| StarCraft (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Alphabet News Network / int_bd41836e | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_be03a5ee | type |
Alphabet News Network | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_be03a5ee | comment |
The Left Behind book series has GCCNN, which is basically the Global Community owning the original CNN. | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_be03a5ee | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_be03a5ee | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Left Behind | hasFeature |
Alphabet News Network / int_be03a5ee | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_bf42e29d | type |
Alphabet News Network | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_bf42e29d | comment |
Hitman (2016) also has GNN, with a logo blatantly satirising real-life American news channel CNN. | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_bf42e29d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_bf42e29d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hitman (2016) (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Alphabet News Network / int_bf42e29d | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_c0eadab8 | type |
Alphabet News Network | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_c0eadab8 | comment |
Sonic X had an instance of SXN, "Sonic X Network". | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_c0eadab8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_c0eadab8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sonic X | hasFeature |
Alphabet News Network / int_c0eadab8 | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_c399cd39 | type |
Alphabet News Network | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_c399cd39 | comment |
Eclipse Phase makes a mention of the irreverent news review cast MRGCNN, the Monster Raving Goblin Cock News Network. | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_c399cd39 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_c399cd39 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Eclipse Phase (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Alphabet News Network / int_c399cd39 | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_c43df4d8 | type |
Alphabet News Network | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_c43df4d8 | comment |
Doctor Who: "The Daemons" has an interesting variation when everyone's watching news on BBC 3. It's worth pointing out that at the time it was made BBC 2 had only been around for seven years. The relaunch generally uses the BBC for main news and has AMNN for American news during any given News Monopoly. |
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| Alphabet News Network / int_c43df4d8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_c43df4d8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Doctor Who | hasFeature |
Alphabet News Network / int_c43df4d8 | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_c6245086 | type |
Alphabet News Network | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_c6245086 | comment |
Crysis in the Kremlin has GNN representing News from American sources. It is never stated in-game what it stands for. | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_c6245086 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_c6245086 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Crysis (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Alphabet News Network / int_c6245086 | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_cac20f89 | type |
Alphabet News Network | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_cac20f89 | comment |
ZNN on JAG, First Monday, NCIS and everything else Bellisario-produced. In the very first JAG episode it appears in, "We the People", it seems to inexplicably stand for "Satellite News Network". |
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| Alphabet News Network / int_cac20f89 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_cac20f89 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| JAG | hasFeature |
Alphabet News Network / int_cac20f89 | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_df07d96e | type |
Alphabet News Network | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_df07d96e | comment |
Lois & Clark had LNN, Luthor News Network. | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_df07d96e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_df07d96e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| LoisAndClark | hasFeature |
Alphabet News Network / int_df07d96e | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_e863cc41 | type |
Alphabet News Network | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_e863cc41 | comment |
The Mega Man Battle Network series had DNN. | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_e863cc41 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_e863cc41 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mega Man Battle Network (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Alphabet News Network / int_e863cc41 | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_ebe2c292 | type |
Alphabet News Network | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_ebe2c292 | comment |
In France, the fictional television channel the journalist played by Léa Seydoux works for has a "i" as symbol. | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_ebe2c292 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_ebe2c292 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| France (2021) | hasFeature |
Alphabet News Network / int_ebe2c292 | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_f189f12e | type |
Alphabet News Network | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_f189f12e | comment |
Vega Strike has procedurally generated News from GNN readable on base computers, mostly concerning space fights between factions, with occasional mentions of Privateers' help, that is completed Player Character missions. | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_f189f12e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_f189f12e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Vega Strike (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Alphabet News Network / int_f189f12e | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_f74b5f80 | type |
Alphabet News Network | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_f74b5f80 | comment |
On Babylon 5 they have ISN, the "InterStellar Network News". While at first an independent—if blatantly sensationalist and ratings-driven—network, it becomes the dictatorial Clark Administration's Propaganda Machine starting in Season 3. | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_f74b5f80 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Alphabet News Network / int_f74b5f80 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Babylon 5 | hasFeature |
Alphabet News Network / int_f74b5f80 |
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