Up All Night: TED Turner, CNN, and the Birth of 24-Hour News by Lisa Napoli

Author:Lisa Napoli
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Abrams Press
Published: 2020-05-12T00:00:00+00:00

1 As for the new Progressive Club, it was ultimately dissolved, and the new facility converted into a branch of the Young Men’s Christian Association.

2 The newscast at WRET launched on September 1, 1978, after the station had been awarded the NBC affiliation earlier in the year. In his bid, Ted had to promise to spend a million dollars to begin a local newscast. It’s not entirely clear why he wished to affiliate the station with a network, given his misgivings about the television establishment, except perhaps to bolster the value of the station in order, ultimately, to sell it.

3 Ted had said of Brown, “I guess you could say it’s an Uncle Remus–type relationship.”

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