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pacey1800

Does anyone remember or have on tape early broadcasts of services such as CNN, CNN Headline News, The Disney Channel, or any other service?
 
> Does anyone remember or have on tape early broadcasts of
> services such as CNN, CNN Headline News, The Disney Channel,
> or any other service?

No tape of it (the launch preceded my first VCR by a couple of years) but I remember that CNN began with live coverage of a news conference Ted Turner called to promote its launch, and I did see most of it. Like most people, I wondered how someone like Turner ended up in the news business ...
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> > Does anyone remember or have on tape early broadcasts of
> > services such as CNN, CNN Headline News, The Disney
> Channel,
> > or any other service?
>
> No tape of it (the launch preceded my first VCR by a couple
> of years) but I remember that CNN began with live coverage
> of a news conference Ted Turner called to promote its
> launch, and I did see most of it. Like most people, I
> wondered how someone like Turner ended up in the news
> business ...
>
Especially when, a couple of years or so earlier, his idea
of a newscast was to put Bill Tush on with a dog dressed up
as an anchor.
 
> > > Does anyone remember or have on tape early broadcasts of
>
> > > services such as CNN, CNN Headline News, The Disney
> > Channel,
> > > or any other service?
> >
> > No tape of it (the launch preceded my first VCR by a
> couple
> > of years) but I remember that CNN began with live coverage
>
> > of a news conference Ted Turner called to promote its
> > launch, and I did see most of it. Like most people, I
> > wondered how someone like Turner ended up in the news
> > business ...
> >
> Especially when, a couple of years or so earlier, his idea
> of a newscast was to put Bill Tush on with a dog dressed up
> as an anchor.
>
And vice versa.
 
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