Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeWhen CNN shut down its airport network in March after nearly 30 years, Lynnwood Bibbens already knew a lot about those orphaned screens.
Bibbens had been working on a deal with CNN to collaborate on an evolution of CNN Airport — which would have been called the Airport Television Network — when the COVID-19 pandemic put a halt to those plans.CNN subsequently decided to get out of the airport business altogether.
That gave Bibbens, the founder and CEO of Reach TV, a leg up in acquiring CNN Airport’s distribution; it now programs more than 2,500 screens in at least 85 airports throughout the country.“We were ready,” Bibbens says. “And every airport director knew it.
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