watching the regular television stations. news only comes on at 6:00 and 10:00. but if there's news on 24 hours people could watch it anytime. >> we started on june 1, and barring satellite problems in the future we won't be signing off until the world ends. >> how could this possibly find an audience? well, he did. >> ready, camera three. >> good evening. i'm david walker. >> and i'm lois hart. now here's the news. >> television news before this 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 thought 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.