WarnerMedia has approximately 6,000 employees in Atlanta.
A price has not been disclosed for CNN Center.
A&T announced last year that it would sell the historic development, although it planned to lease it for at least five years and allow CNN to continue operating from there.
A spokesperson for WarnerMedia declined Friday to say how long CNN will remain in the building or to share more information. A CP Group spokeswoman declined to answer questions about the price or plans for the iconic CNN sign.
CNN Center, which includes five towers and several hundred thousand feet of retail space, has long been the symbol of the global news network, as well as a magnet for global attention.
CNN has occupied its namesake building since 1987, when Ted Turner moved the network there from its original home on the Techwood campus. But many employees have been working from home amid the pandemic.
In May 2020, during protests over the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minnesota police, protesters in Atlanta gathered around the CNN Center, damaging a large sign with the red CNN logo at one of the entrances main building.
On September 11, 2001, after planes slammed into the World Trade Center, officials, fearing the network’s global importance would make it a target, shut down the CNN Center for hours.
WHAT’S AHEAD?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported last month that long-term plans call for many, if not most, CNN employees to move from the downtown site to buildings near Georgia Tech that have been recently renovated. These offices already house TNT, Cartoon Network and other WarnerMedia networks.
