turmoil. the 60s are over, dad. michael in the foul line, a shot, good. we intend to cover all the news come all the time. we won t be signing off until we are all dead. isn t that special? any tool for expression will ring outpost both the best and worst of us and television has been there. they don t pay me enough to deal with animals like this. people are no longer embarrassed. we have seen the news, and it is us. clark: slowly but surely, the 1970s are disappearing. the 1980s will be upon us. what a decade it is coming up. slowly but surely, the 1970s are disappearing. the 1980s will be upon us, and what a decade it is coming up. happy new year. as you begin the 80s, in the television world, the landscape on any given evening, nine out of 10 people were watching one of three networks. more than 30 million people are addicted to it. social critics are mystified by its success. what is it? television primetime prairie potboiler, dallas. a move like t
the world to people in real- time. cnn, the world s most important network. i didn t do cable news network because someone told me it couldn t be done. i figured it was a viable concept, and it was after we announced we were going to do it . is cable news network going to deliver the same kind of fair? no. it already does provide different fair and cable news network is maybe the best example of that. people of the news and we had lots of it and the other guys had not very much. so, choice and quantity one out. new york city, hello. catastrophe in american space program. i m lou dobbs along with financial editor marjorie kandel. mcclure trapped for almost 3 days in a artesian well. the iron curtain has come
this coming sunday, and you television network opens for business. cnn, cable news network. you are all in on this one. nothing ventured, nothing gained. on that original point mr. turner, thank you very much indeed. i wanted to see what was going on in the world. and there was no way that you could do it watching regular television stations. the news only comes on at 6:00 and 10:00. but if there was news on 24 hours, people could watch at any time barring settlement problems in the future we won t be signing off until the world ends. it was a widespread belief that this was a fools errand. how could this possibly find an audience? well, he did. good evening, i m david walker. s but here is the news. television news, before this, was stuff that had already happened. for the first time, cnn brought
brought about by business, competition, and technology. there were a variety of people why people who worked at broadcast networks were freaked out in the 1980s. one of them was cnn, and the rise of cable. another was being taken over by foreign entities in corporate america. new energy spent billions buying the networks recently, and all of them want their money s worth. people began to find out that news could be a profit center, and that focused a lot of attention on us. a lot from people in wall street, for instance. if you think about the news divisions of cbs, nbc, and abc, they were part of a proud tradition. a journalistic tradition that really matters. we serve the public but this is not about profit and loss. the people who worked at those news divisions were totally freaked out by what it meant that they were now owned by these larger corporate entities. television news isn t profitable at some point, there won t be anymore television news. i worry about people w
turmoil. the 60s are over, dad. michael in the foul line, a shot, good. we intend to cover all the news come all the time. we won t be signing off until we are all dead. isn t that special? any tool for expression will ring outpost both the best and worst of us and television has been there. they don t pay me enough to deal with animals like this. people are no longer embarrassed. we have seen the news, and it is us.