"Nearly 20 years ago, with the announcement of ANN, I was told that our initial concept of a 24/7/365 news network was lunacy… that it would never work or be able to support itself. In that two decade span, the ever-innovative ANN and its sister programs/organizations have generated a model that has been copied again and again (though not always very well) and often by those who have ignored the fact that each and everything they’ve done was done first by the committed staff that helped birth ANN – and in that time, we have created over 200,000 stories, 7000 Aero-Cast/Podcasts, hundreds of live Aero-TV segments, 2000 Aero-TV programs, nearly 400 episodes of Airborne – all while introducing concepts like Daily Aviation News, Daily Aero-Casts, Daily Aero-T