CNN has formally unveiled its previously announced expansion of worldwide newsgathering services which will be the catalyst for a increase in flow of wholly-owned news material into its library CNN ImageSource which serves the commercial footage client sector. The company is investing to boost its bureaux in Beijing, Jakarta, Johannesburg, Istanbul, Pakistan and Tokyo and entirely new operations are planned in Afghanistan, Belgium, India, Kenya, Malaysia, Nigeria, the Philippines, Poland and Vietnam, with a new regional production hub in the United Arab Emirates. Strong tv station-owned international newsgathering networks in the 1970s and 80s were the foundation of many of the great tv news collections. In recent years tv news execs relied more and more on agency supplied footage, and less on material from their own cameras, but in August CNN announced it was dropping Reuters as a supplier of worldwide tv coverage. CNN says now that wholly-owned content is "the backbone of this business" and powers the development of new business models. Web: www.cnnimnagesource.com Story: FOOTAGE.info NEWS SERVICE