Up All Night: Ted Turner, CNN, and the Birth of 24-Hour News
- ISBN-10
- 1683358260
- ISBN-13
- 9781683358268
- Series
- Up All Night
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 320
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020-05-12
- Publisher
- Abrams
- Author
- Lisa Napoli
Description
The wild inside story of the birth of CNN and dawn of the age of 24-hour news How did we get from an age of dignified nightly news broadcasts on three national networks to the age of 24-hour news channels and constantly breaking news? The answer—thanks to Ted Turner and an oddball cast of cable television visionaries, big league rejects, and nonunion newbies—can be found in the basement of an abandoned country club in Atlanta. Because it was there, in the summer of 1980, that this motley crew launched CNN. Lisa Napoli’s Up All Night is an entertaining inside look at the founding of the upstart network that set out to change the way news was delivered and consumed, and succeeded beyond even the wildest imaginings of its charismatic and uncontrollable founder. Mixing media history, a business adventure story, and great characters, this is a fun book on the making of the world we live in now.
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- 2021-07-13
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