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Ted Turner: Captain Planet – a 2019 documentary hosted by Dr. Sanjay Gupta highlighting the personal life, career, and the environmental work of Ted Turner (CNN Philippines, full episode) In 1990, he created the Turner Foundation, which focuses on philanthropic grants concerning issues pertaining to the environment and overpopulation.
"Turner Doomsday Video" is the internal title of a video intended to be broadcast by CNN at the end of the world.The video, created at the direction of CNN founder Ted Turner before the network's 1980 launch, [1] is a performance of the Christian hymn "Nearer My God To Thee" performed by multiple members of the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine bands.
This is a list of news programs broadcast by CNN. CNN is a 24-hour cable news network founded by media mogul Ted Turner . The network debuted on June 1, 1980.
The Cable News Network ... Founded under Turner Broadcasting System in 1980, ... Three and a half years before CNN's launch, in December 1976, Ted Turner [1] ...
Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news organization operating, most notably, a website and a TV channel headquartered in Atlanta.Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), [2] CNN was the first television channel to provide 24 ...
CNN's owner, Ted Turner, objected to their hiring but Braden and Buchanan, with a signed contract, threatened a lawsuit. Turner backed down and agreed to give them a half hour at 11:30pm. The program's original producer was Randy Douthit. It was executive produced by CNN's leading female executive, Gail Evans. [4]
The first 24-hour news channel, Cable News Network (CNN), was launched. The U.S.-based network launched at 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time from Atlanta with an original staff of 170 employees, and 130 more in bureaus in Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. [2] The inaugural broadcast on the channel was an introduction by Ted Turner.
On June 1, 1980, Ted Turner launched CNN, the first 24-hour cable news operation, and sister channel Headline News followed in 1982. CNN gained reputation significantly with its 1991 coverage of the Gulf War. The success of CNN inspired many other 24-hour cable news stations. In 1996, Fox News and MSNBC were launched to compete with CNN.