Sounding the event

It was in June 1980 that the world saw the birth of Cable News Network ( CNN ) – the world’s first 24 hour news channel, thereby heralding the new era of immediacy and linking the world to major events, no matter where they occurred. The tagline ‘It is always primetime somewhere’ best summed up the ambitions of the founder of this new cable network Ted Turner. The word immediacy may sound archaic and blasé in our WWW and Twitterized world but it needed great vision and courage in Ted Turner to think of launching a 24 – hour news channel at that time. The...

10p cctm030057 04-12-2010 133 20   Download