CNN was mocked as an all-news channel that would never sign off.
Rivals called it “Chicken Noodle News” after its 1980 launch, and it lost more than the $2 million a month Ted Turner had expected. Before launch he had filmed a final clip — a band playing “Nearer, My God, to Thee” — to air only when the world ends. The doomsday tape sits in CNN’s archive.
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