On 1 June 1980 Ted Turner's Cable News Network went on the air from Atlanta as the first 24-hour television news channel. The launch created the rolling news cycle: news no longer arrived at appointed hours but ran continuously, a change every later news medium inherited.
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Ted Turner founded Cable News Network, which launched under his ownership on 1 June 1980.
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Founded on June 1, 1980, by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, CNN is the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.
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