The Cable News Network, launched by Ted Turner in Atlanta on 1 June 1980 as the first television channel devoted entirely to news around the clock. Its live coverage of the 1991 Gulf War demonstrated continuous global news as a new fact of politics, and the rolling news format it invented has been copied worldwide.
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Founded CNN in 1980 as the first 24-hour cable news channel.
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(CNN) is an American multinational news media company and the flagship namesake property of CNN Worldwide, a division of Warner Bros.
- Milestones Credited: Launch of CNN
- Associated With: The 24-Hour News Cycle
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Cable News Network, Inc. (CNN)
- Associated With: Ted Turner
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