On the web, with six million users a day, CNN. Add to that our Internet services in Arabic and Japanese, CNN's mobile and ever-growing number of digital services it is not hard to see why CNN news can reach more than a billion people a day.
Every day I see the staff of CNN continuing to set new standards in award-winning journalism and technological advancement. I may have been here for nine years, but my colleagues, especially the ones who were here at the birth 25 years ago, tell me that the best is still to come.
Return to Top. The overnight news programming was a big hit, and that was where the idea of CNN was born, she says.
And that was where he fell into news. On why CNN was able to differentiate itself from other broadcast networks. Of course, the traditional broadcast networks were doing that. They were grabbing stories as things happened around the country. But CNN, that was their mainstay, was this network that they created of stations. Just the idea of a diversity of opinions would change everything.
And that was probably, if you think a good business person is somebody who takes risks, that's Ted Turner for sure, in that he also made a lot of decisions without money. I mean, for instance, launching CNN, the networks had thought about doing hour news, but they didn't have the money or the wherewithal. And he didn't really care. He did it anyway. And famously he wound up losing control of his empire because he took many risks, but he just didn't take no for an answer.
In fact, if somebody said no, he would do it anyway, whether or not he had the money — like when he first got into television. Somebody was going to figure out that they needed to do this. Ted Turner and the people he employed and amassed did it first, and it's changed news forever.
And of course, all of that was before the internet came and escalated it to the next level. What if I could just turn on the news at 6 o'clock and hear a very sober, measured, deliberate newscast that told me what happened that day? Initially available in less than two million U.
After his father died by suicide in , Turner took over the business and expanded it. CNN eventually came to be known for covering live events around the world as they happened, often beating the major networks to the punch. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us! At a superpowers summit meeting in Washington, D. President George H.
According to the Blind and deaf from infancy, Keller became a world-renowned writer and lecturer. The uplinks to send the signals to space were huge and expensive. The satellite transponder berths were pricey.
The tape machines and monitors and the wire that linked them all together cost fortunes. Today you can start a channel on YouTube with a laptop and an internet connection. In the 80s, you needed multiple millions to produce the same level of content. Without hard-driving visionaries like Ted Turner, the cable revolution would have never happened, and hour news would have been a pipe dream. One of my first jobs was visiting cable systems in small towns in Texas, Louisiana, and Kansas the new guys always got the smallest, most undesirable clients.
We already have news at 6 and 11! And if something important happens like an assassination or a walk on the moon, they break into regular programming. No one will ever watch all news! And why would anyone ever want to pay money for it? We believed in the mission of CNN. At the time, the Soviet Union was an existential threat to the United States, Europe, and democracies everywhere.
The idea of a global information network that could help the world, including the communist world, understand each other was a driving force behind the network.
I, and dozens of other young idealists, pushed forward, making less money than many of our peers who were taking jobs at software startups that offered stock options.
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