Celebrating CNN and Its Creator

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Allan Linderman

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On June 1st CNN will commemorate the 40th anniversary of its initial broadcast. A truly herculean pioneering effort (with a generous sprinkling of good fortune) is recounted in detail by Lisa Napoli in the recently published "Up All Night". Napoli dives deeply into the background and psyche of Ted Turner who, we learn, despised the predictable establishment news of the big 3 networks. Decades before Tim Cook uttered the words, Turner "created something we didn't know we needed but now cannot live without". View the first broadcast here.

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Allan Linderman

Allan is President of The Linderman Media Group, a media consulting company that has filled in the gaps in the client media function since 1996. LMG serves global, national, regional and local advertisers. Allan also helps client marketers in his role as Ins… read more

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Celebrating CNN and Its Creator

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