Court TV - Definition and Overview

Courtroom Television Network LLC, more commonly known as Court TV, is an American cable television network owned by Time Warner and Liberty Media that launched on July 1, 1991.

Seen in nearly 80 million homes, Court TV's programming includes programs and movies (both original and off-network), news (with editorial content) and simulcasts of trials, usually criminal trials. All on-air news anchors covering these trials are attorneys.

Many of the shows aired in prime time involve murder investigations and how investigators use forensic evidence, criminal profiling, psychics, etc. to solve them. A partial listing of these shows includes:

• "The Investigators"
• "Forensic Files"
• "Psychic Detectives"
• "I Detective" (where the viewers are given multiple choice questions during the course of the show to see if they would do what the investigators did to solve each case)
• "Body of Evidence: From the Case Files of Dayle Hinman" (featuring Special Agent Dayle Hinman, a criminal profiler with the FBI (retired)).

Some of Court TV's content is broadcast in Canada on CourtTV Canada.

Apart from having its own website, it also owns the website The Smoking Gun, which posts things such as mug shots and othe public documents. Court TV also owns the website "Crime Library: Criminal Minds and Methods," which goes in depth concerning famous crimes and how they were solved.

Key Court TV personnel include:

• Chairman and CEO: Henry Schleiff
• President and COO: Art Bell
• General Manager: Marc Juris

External link

• Court TV website (http://www.courttv.com/)
• Crime Library (http://www.crimelibrary.com/)