CNN seems to have dual broadcasts centers, I sometimes (rarely) watch CNN in the US and find it all non metric. However, when elsewhere on the planet the broadcasts seem to be metric or dual, CNN is one network where the temperatures on their world weather seem to be dual Fahrenheit and Celsius.
Just as most (US) Americans have no idea of Celsius, most people outside the US have no idea of Fahrenheit, except maybe hearing that 100˚F (38˚C) is "hot". Interestingly with the present temperatures in the American South West getting near to 50˚C, most airplanes have a limitation that they cannot take off or land at temperatures of 50˚C or higher, doe not happen often but I can see a lot or aircraft not being able to get into or out of Phoenix or other hot locales in the immediate future. Mike Payne. On 03/07/2013, at 05:20 , "Kilopascal" <[email protected]> wrote: > CNN is a world-wide organisation with a world-wide audience and crew. It may > be that CNN has no official policy and it is the preference of the individual > reporter or the boss he reports to. It may also be the units are chose for > the intended target audience or to just use the units provided by the source > and not bother to convert. The reporter might be fluent enough in metric > that he/she doesn't feel a need to convert or doesn't know how. > > It can't be easy to decide on one set of units for all. If you choose SI for > the whole world, including the US, you alienate Americans. If you choose USC > for the whole world, you alienate the world. So, you use both (but not at the > same time) and in some instances the world hears and sees USC and in other > cases the US hears and sees metric. I'm sure that when USC is heard outside > the US, there will be some who will complain and when metric is heard in the > US, there are complaints too. > > It is the headache of the two assembly line situation where you have to make > metric sizes for the world and USC sizes for the US and struggle to make sure > the two don't get mixed. It is a very costly endeavor. If companies like > CNN didn't depend on advertising revenue, they could set a metric only policy > for the whole world including the US, but if they did it now, they could lose > advertising revenue. > > > > > [USMA:53020] CNN metric? > > Stanislav Jakuba Tue, 02 Jul 2013 12:19:06 -0700 > > *(CNN)* -- The superlatives in China continue -- the latest symbol of China's > "bigger is much, much better" ethos is open for business. Located in Chengdu > (population 14 million), capital of Sichuan province in > southwestern China, the New Century Global Center is the largest freestanding > building in the world, Chinese officials say. Though the words "world's > largest" usually bring to mind an image of a towering > skyscraper, this project actually isn't all that tall. But it's certainly > big. At 500 meters long, 400 meters wide and 100 meters high, the > 1.7-million-square-meter mega-structure is capable of housing 20 Sydney > Opera Houses and almost three times the size of the Pentagon in Washington, > D.C. The Global Center, which opened June 28, is home to business offices, > hotels, theaters, shopping malls, a faux Mediterranean village and > family-themed attractions such as a water park called Paradise Island.
