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...Henry and Senior Editor Stephen Smith began to consider a cover story on Communications Mogul Ted Turner. Recalls Henry: "The first thing I did was go to my office and turn on the TV, switch the dial to Turner's Cable News Network and start watching." He finds CNN soothing: "When you're in the middle of some ordeal analyzing breaking news, and you feel your perspective slipping away, and then you watch someone else react to the same news, it snaps you up and reassures...
Turner has vaulted past those pursuits to what he calls, with characteristic bombast, "the most significant achievement in the annals of journalism." Although considerably less than that, his Cable News Network (CNN) is nevertheless a catalyst for a burgeoning revolution in television. Turner has shown that there is a substantial and eager audience for news all the time, not just in the confined hours at the beginning and end of the workday. In two years his 24-hour-a-day service has grown to be sent into 13.9 million households via cable TV. According to the A.C. Nielsen TV ratings...
Turner knows he faces an uphill battle. He knows too that there are a lot of corporate buzzards circling overhead, hoping CNN will falter so they can pick its carcass clean. But Turner has built a unique career on being an optimist. And on being right...
Years before he conceived CNN, Turner became a major force in cable TV through a move of similar ingenuity and daring. It began in 1970, when to the horror of his financial advisers he traded $2.5 million worth of stock in his company for title to Atlanta's Channel 17, a sorry UHF television station that was losing $600,000 a year. Many viewers around the country did not pick up UHF signals then; indeed, two years after Turner made his buy, Atlanta's other UHF station went bankrupt...
...Cable News Network and especially his most recent effort, CNN2, the headline-news service, which has been sold not only to cable systems but also to dozens of the networks' own affiliate stations. Most network executives publicly downplay creeping "Turneritis." CBS News President Van Gordon Sauter discreetly calls CNN "one of a number of factors in our thinking," but NBC's Frank confesses: "It was all Turner. That...