DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Our "CNN20" today: Happy Birthday to</s>CNN. BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: Happy birthday.</s>ANNOUNCER: Bringing you the world for 20 years, this is CNN.</s>TED TURNER: So far, everything we've done has been right, and this is going to be right, too.</s>TURNER: Back when I was planning -- in late '74 or early '75 -- when I was planning to put what was going to be Superstation TBS on the satellite, Home Box Office was already around and it was the only cable network. TBS -- Superstation TBS became the second satellite- delivered service. (</s>BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, 1979) TURNER: I wanted to start the Cable News Network because I felt...</s>TURNER: But I was thinking about what else would be a good channel to have, that it would be very convenient to have news on demand.</s>TURNER: We are also looking into the creation of news alternative for cable subscribers. This new service will be called the Cable News Network.</s>TURNER: CNN was the first global network by the definition that it was distributed everywhere in the world and it was seen by at least some people in virtually every country. It started with a vision to do a 24-hour in-depth news network and then it became a number of networks and a number of different programming networks, financial news, sport news, and so forth, later on.
CNN20: Ted Turner Remembers the Birth of CNN