{"id":21877,"date":"2016-06-01T05:35:41","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T09:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=21877"},"modified":"2021-02-24T09:40:29","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T14:40:29","slug":"june-1-1980-cnn-debuts-as-the-first-all-news-network36-years-ago-today-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=21877","title":{"rendered":"June 1, 1980&#8230;CNN Debuts As The First All News Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>June 1, 1980&#8230;CNN Debuts As The First All News Network<\/p>\n<p>36 years ago today, The Cable New Network went live at 5 PM with anchors Lois Hart and Dave Walker after a brief dedication ceremony from Ted Turner&#8230;you can see the first hour here.<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?t=2m8s&#038;v=rWhgKuKvvPE&#038;feature=youtu.be&#038;ab_channel=BrandonMillman<\/p>\n<p>Below are photos from our friend Jeff Jeffares taken in the days leading up to the sign on. Jeff is at the TD position (closest) in the color photo and helped install the Grass Valley 1600 shown here in the box, and the four RCA TK47s. Happy Birthday CNN! -Bobby Ellerbee<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/1018712201499662\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/June-1-1980...CNN-Debuts-As-The-First-All-News-Network-36-years-ago-today-The\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/1018712201499662\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/June-1-1980...CNN-Debuts-As-The-First-All-News-Network-36-years-ago-today-The.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/1018712201499662\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1477162869_75_June-1-1980...CNN-Debuts-As-The-First-All-News-Network-36-years-ago-today-The.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/1018712201499662\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1477162869_606_June-1-1980...CNN-Debuts-As-The-First-All-News-Network-36-years-ago-today-The\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/1018712201499662\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1477162869_602_June-1-1980...CNN-Debuts-As-The-First-All-News-Network-36-years-ago-today-The.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/1018712931499589\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 1, 1980&#8230;CNN Debuts As The First All News Network 36 years ago today, The Cable New Network went live at 5 PM with anchors Lois Hart and Dave Walker after a brief dedication ceremony from Ted Turner&#8230;you can see the first hour here. https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?t=2m8s&#038;v=rWhgKuKvvPE&#038;feature=youtu.be&#038;ab_channel=BrandonMillman Below are photos from our friend Jeff Jeffares taken in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[787,788,861,806],"class_list":["post-21877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-net","tag-rca","tag-ted-turner","tag-wor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58848,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21877\/revisions\/58848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}