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 was on any given evening, nine out of ten people were watching only one of three networks. More than 30 Million People are addicted to it. Social critics are mystified by its success. What is it . Its Television Prime time prairie pot boilers, dallas. A move like that will destroy the oil. Brother or no brother, whatever it takes, ill stop you. Dallas literally captivated america for 13 years. Dallas is in some way rooted in the 1970s, one of craziest things that started was j. R. Ewing. He was such a delicious villain. Everyone was completely enamerred by this character. At this point so many people were watching television that you could do something so unexpected that it would become news overnight. [ gunshot ] the National Obsession in 1980 around who shot j. R. , its how imagine how obsessed we were w
that the detractors showed up. gumbel: is cable news network just gonna be a new means of delivering the same kind of fare? no. it already does provide different fare and cable news network is a perfect and maybe the best example of that. people love news and we had lots of it. and the other guys had not very much. so choice and quantity won out. new york city, hello. mintier: a major catastrophe in america s space program. i m lou dobbs along with financial editor myron kandel. jessica mcclure trapped for almost three days now in a dry artesian well. miller: the iron curtain between east germany and west berlin has come tumbling down. good evening i m pat buchanan the conservative in crossfire. buchanan: the american people appreciated the new television. they certainly came to came to cnn in droves. mr. gorbachev and i both agree on the desirability of freer and more extensive personal contact between the peoples
was stuff that had already happened. for the first time, cnn brought the world to people in real time. cnn. the world s most important network. i didn t do cable news network because somebody told me it couldn t be done. i figured it was a very viable concept, and i went ahead and did it. it was after we announced that we were going to do it that the detractors showed up. is cable news network just going to be a new means of delivering the same kind of fare? no. it already does provide different fare, and cable news network is a perfect and maybe the best example of that. people love news, and we had lots of it. and the other guys had not very much, so choice and quantity won out. new york city, hello. a major catastrophe in america s space program i m lou dobbs along with financial editor myron kandel. jessica mcclure trapped for almost three days now in a dry artesian well.
it couldn t be done. i figured it was a very viable concept, and i went ahead and did it. it was after we announced that we were going to do it that the detractors showed up. is cable news network just gonna be a new means of delivering the same kind of fare? no. it already does provide different fare, and cable news network is a perfect and maybe the best example of that. people love news, and we had lots of it. and the other guys had not very much. so choice and quantity won out. new york city, hello. a major catastrophe in america s space program i m lou dobbs along with financial editor myron kandel. jessica mcclure trapped for almost three days now in a dry artesian well. the iron curtain between east germany and west berlin has come tumbling down. good evening, i m pat buchanan, the conservative in crossfire. the american people appreciated the new television. they certainly came to came