On This Day: June 1, 1980 — CNN’s Bold 24-Hour Debut
On June 1, 1980, Ted Turner launched CNN from an Atlanta mansion and promised 24-hour news ‘until the world ends.’ Inside the first hour of cable news.
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Twin Peaks Premiere 1990: The Night TV Changed Forever
Thirty-five years ago today, on April 8, 1990, a dead girl washed up on a rocky shore in the Pacific Northwest. She was wrapped in plastic. And nothing on television was ever the same again. The Twin Peaks pilot episode premiered on ABC as a two-hour Sunday Night Movie, and roughly 34.6 million Americans tuned…
