Up All Evening: Ted Turner, CNN, and the Delivery of 24-Hour Information

The wild inside story of the beginning of CNN and daybreak of the age of 24-hour information

  How did we get from an age of dignified nightly information broadcasts on three nationwide networks to the age of 24-hour information channels and continuously breaking information? The reply—due to Ted Turner and an oddball forged of cable tv visionaries, huge league rejects, and nonunion newbies—will be discovered within the basement of an deserted nation membership in Atlanta. As a result of it was there, in the summertime of 1980, that this motley crew launched CNN.

Lisa Napoli’s
Up All Evening is an entertaining inside take a look at the founding of the upstart community that got down to change the best way information was delivered and consumed, and succeeded past even the wildest imaginings of its charismatic and uncontrollable founder. Mixing media historical past, a enterprise journey story, and nice characters, this can be a enjoyable guide on the making of the world we dwell in now.