Our history: 1980s
1980 Consumer Reports starts a TV department and a magazine for kids called Penny Power (later Zillions). 1983 Consumer Reports starts an auto price service. 1985 Consumer Reports starts a newsletter on travel, Consumer Reports Travel Letter. 1987 The Auto Test Department moves to a 327-acre state-of-the-art test track and auto-testing facility in East Haddam, CT.  1987 Consumer Reports becomes available online through the Prodigy service. It becomes available on CompuServe later that year and on America Online in 1992. 1989 Consumer Reports starts a health newsletter, Consumer Reports Health Letter (now Consumer Reports on Health).
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