 CRN was founded in 1983 as Cable Radio Network to provide commercial radio programming to local cable television systems.CRN founder Michael Horn (who, at the time, was an on-air personality at Los Angeles’ KFI AM) read an article in the trade publication "Radio & Records" that mentioned Los Angeles radio station KMET earned ratings points in the Phoenix market.Horn learned KMET was the audio source for a channel on a local cable system in Phoenix.