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it always comes on at 6:00 or 10:00. if there is news 24 hours, people can watch it any time. we decided on june 1st, we won t be signing off until we are all there. there was a fool s zone. how can we possibly find an audience? well, he did. good evening, i am david walker. television news before this was stuff that already happened. for the first time, cnn brought the world to people in realtime. cnn, the world s most important network. i didn t do cable news network because somebody told me it could not be done. i figure it was a viable concept and i went ahead and did it. it was after i announced that we are going to do it, the detractors all showed up. is cable news network going to be a new means of delivering
about entertainment and celebrities. robert redford plays the good guy in the movies, but don t tell that to his neighbors in utah, they are still bitter and redford is the target of their ire. the audience grew and grew. and that was showing us the appetite for celebrity news was big. it was big. get ready for lifestyles of the rich and famous. television s most dazzling hour of excitement. hi, i m robin leach in monaco. the glittering gem of the riviera. and you ve got a vip ticket to prince ranier s private party. your sunday newspaper is still delivered with the comics around the news. and that was what i always thought lifestyles was. we were the comic around the news. except we did it as seriously as they did news. finally in the driving seat of his own career, he burned rubber in a new direction. david hasselhoff, rock idol. it was a time where pushing
best way to get a message to a foreign leader was to have a president going to the rose garden and make a statement because everybody was watching cnn news. cnn was a breakthrough. it changed the whole world. it changed quickly. the network news business. that business that we were not the only ones. it was hard, it s hard to be on the top little purge and have to come down off of it. our special segment tonight, the network news, the first in a two parts series on a profound changes taken by news. there is a variety of reasons why people were freaked out in the 1980s. one of them was cnn and another was the rise of cable. another was taken by foreign entity, corporate america. all of them want their money s
didn t care. he wanted his thumbprint out there, and that s the most important thing. it s time for small-town news. paul excuse me, paul? do you have any accompanying music here for small-town news? paul shaffer, ladies and gentlemen. the show making fun of itself and turning itself inside-out that way was something kind of new. i mean, don t we look like guys you d see hanging around together? absolutely. would you like to hang around with me? nope. i ll say it again, this is the stupidest show i thought that i would never want to do this show with you. now why? because you thought i was a [ bleep ]? there is one rule i keep trying to abide by, and unfortunately, i only get to it about 12% of the time. and that is, it s only television. we re not doing cancer research. if the 40-year-odd history of commercial broadcasting has taught us one thing, there s nothing sacred about television. all right, steven is