Up All Night
eBook - ePub

Up All Night

Ted Turner, CNN, and the Birth of 24-Hour News

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  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Up All Night

Ted Turner, CNN, and the Birth of 24-Hour News

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About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. March 2001
  7. Chapter One: The Little Girl in the Well, 1949
  8. Chapter Two: The Lunatic Fringe
  9. Chapter Three: Girdle ’Round the Earth
  10. Chapter Four: Watch This Channel Grow!
  11. Chapter Five: Captain Outrageous
  12. Chapter Six: “No News Is Good News”
  13. Chapter Seven: Every Drop of Blood
  14. Chapter Eight: Reese’s Pieces
  15. Chapter Nine: Until the End of the World
  16. Chapter Ten: Duck Hunting with Fidel
  17. Chapter Eleven: The Little Girl in the Well, 1987
  18. Afterword: June 2000
  19. Appendix: Timeline
  20. Notes
  21. Bibliography
  22. Acknowledgments
  23. Index