<i>The Onion</i> Launches TV News Network

Launches TV News Network

Today the WSJ reports on the soon-to-be-launching Onion News Network, which in the promo to the left promises "April 2007" but the WSJ reports is launching on Tuesday. ONN will "parody the visual style and breathless reporting of 24-hour cable news networks like CNN" but in truth, judging by the promo, actually looks slicker and edgier, with less screaming graphics. The WSJ breaks it down:

Initially, ONN will offer two short video segments per week, a number that will grow, according to Sean Mills, president of Onion Inc. The videos, available at tv.theonion.com and as free podcasts on iTunes, will include fake breaking-news segments, fake investigative pieces, fake public service announcements and feeds from a C-SPAN parody called "O-SPAN."

O-SPAN sounds sort of awesome, we will admit.

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