CNN: Cable News Network

CNN: Cable News Network is a Georgia historical marker in Fulton County, dedicated 2018.

Next to McCormick & Schmick's restaurant on Centennial Olympic Park Drive NW just south of Marietta Street in Atlanta.

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Media mogul Ted Turner launched the Cable News Network "CNN" in Atlanta on June 1, 1980, as the world's first 24-hour all news network. Turner had revolutionized cable television by beaming Superstation TBS around the globe by satellite and was convinced there was a market for an all-news network that could reach audiences through the expanding cable and satellite network. Headquartered in Atlanta, CNN opened news bureaus around the world. Through its subsidiary channels and the competitors it inspired, CNN extended its reach globally, revolutionizing the broadcast industry and the way people receive news and information.

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1816 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1831 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1869 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1874 · Military Operations of the Atlanta Campaign. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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Military Operations of the Atlanta Campaign, 1874, covering the location of CNN: Cable News Network, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Military Operations of the Atlanta Campaign, 1874, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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