mood in washington, d.c. as well. things are a bit different now than they were 17 years ago when we saw a significant shutdown under the clinton administration. back then just for a little context here victoria s secret held its first fashion show that year, jon. no angel wings, but their first show. a jury acquitted o.j. simpson in the murders of nicole brown simpson and ronald goldman. you were watching mtv, x files and the big headline, this happened after the shutdown finished up and we were back to business in d.c., but what else happened 17 years ago? jon: here it is, this is an original vintage t-shirt. fox news channel went on the air. october 7, 1996. today s our 17th birthday. jenna: i think we need to do a reprint of the shirt. jon: don broderick, one of our writers, wrought this in. i used to have one of these. jenna: what happened? jon: well, i wear them to death, and it went away. collector s i.
working 24-7, the start-up network launched october 7, 1996 in only 17 million households. competitor, cnn, was in 70 million homes. all you had to do is walk into the newsroom because everybody here was technically getting paid less, working more and doing more but it was almost like they were all stockholders. were these people really this motivated? was anybody watching in october 1996? no. it was like doing television in a vacuum. we couldn t even watch it in manhattan because there was the argument with the cable company that had manhattan wired. i think we need to call mr. murdoch. do i have that on my visa limit? do you ever stop and reflect 15 years down the road and think about how far this place as gone? when roger ailes would get up and say i have a five-year plan to knock off cnn, i thought the guy was drinking kool-aid.
anybody here. you say that the more people know and viewers become educated, the better voters they become. i do believe that freedom of the press is really a primary function of democracy. my impression watching your show is that you are in an active newsroom. true. these are not extras. they aren t extras. you are gathering the news in realtime and putting that directly on tv. suspicious packages onboard two ups planes have forced those planes to be quarantined. we don t have details on what that package might look like. it was a tense environment and the question was these planes are in the air. what s going to happen next? with a young, ambitious staff working 24-7, the start-up network launched october 7, 1996 in only 17 million households. competitor, cnn, was in
working 24-7, the start-up network launched october 7, 1996 in only 17 million households. competitor, cnn, was in 70 million homes. all you had to do is walk into the newsroom because everybody here was technically getting paid less, working more and doing more but it was almost like they were all stockholders. were these people really this motivated? was anybody watching in october 1996? no. it was like doing television in a vacuum. we couldn t even watch it in manhattan because there was the argument with the cable company that had manhattan wired. i think we need to call mr. murdoch. do i have that on my visa limit? do you ever stop and reflect 15 years down the road and think about how far this place as gone? when roger ailes would get up and say i have a five-year plan to knock off cnn, i thought the guy was drinking kool-aid.
working 24-7, the start-up network launched october 7, 1996 in only 17 million households. competitor, cnn, was in 70 million homes. all you had to do is walk into the newsroom because everybody here was technically getting paid less, working more and doing more but it was almost like they were all stockholders. were these people really this motivated? was anybody watching in october 1996? no. it was like doing television in a vacuum. we couldn t even watch it in manhattan because there was the argument with the cable company that had manhattan wired. i think we need to call mr. murdoch. do i have that on my visa limit? do you ever stop and reflect 15 years down the road and think about how far this place as gone? when roger ailes would get up and say i have a five-year plan to knock off cnn, i thought the guy was drinking kool-aid.