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 Super Station TBS on the satellite, Home Box Office was already around, and it was the only cable network. TBS, Super Station TBS became the second satellite- delivered service. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, 9/14/79) I wanted to start the Cable News Network because I felt...</s>TURNER: But I was thinking about what -- what else would be a good channel to have, that would be very convenient to have news on demand.</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 indepth news network, and then it became a number of networks and the number of different programming segments, financial news, sports news and so forth, later on.
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