Besides Turner Broadcasting's CNN International, Sky News (DStv 402) and eNCA (DStv 403) also made big changes today, with Sky News adding the brand-new Sky News Tonight as a new primetime evening newscast between 20:00 and 22:00, and eNCA also changing its on air-graphics, logo and look.
On CNN International the image of the Earth is now gone from CNN's logo which is just the white CNN letters in a red block.
It now makes it more seamless for South African viewers - and those watching in the rest of the world - when CNN suddenly drops its international coverage and switches to coverage from the United States - which usually happens when there is a live shooting in progress, public unrest or some sort or an American domestic terror attack.
The changes on CNN International had been expected - the past month and a half saw numerous unannounced on-air changes as the schedule changed, programmes changed, and as CNN International cut a lot of the previous anchoring done from the rest of the world and Hong Kong and centralised much of it to New York.