https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/06/media/ted-turner-cnn-launch-amanpour
It's too bad it became
such woke fake news 😟😦
"
Turner faced an extraordinary uphill battle to launch CNN in 1980. Before the network became an institution, a shorthand for 24/7 breaking news around the world, it was a dare that many people considered unserious and some derided as “Chicken Noodle News.”
The launch was set for June 1, 1980. A combined Armed Forces Band performed at the ceremony outside CNN’s Techwood campus, a former country club on Techwood Drive in Atlanta, Georgia. Turner asked the band to play the hymn “Nearer, My God, to Thee,” and had a camera crew record it, suggesting the tape could be taken off the shelf and aired in the event of a nuclear apocalypse..."
