RIP Ted Turner.
When he launched CNN, the legendary entrepreneur commissioned a “Doomsday Video” to be used as network’s final broadcast at end of the world.
If was a semi-satirical riff on his promise that, “We won't be signing off until the world ends. We'll be on, we'll be covering it live, and that will be our last, last event."
The clip is of a military marching band playing “Nearer, My God, to Thee" (apparently, the last song heard by those is Titanic rescue boats).
After decades of urban legends, video was leaked in 2015 by a former CNN staffer…and if there was ever a day for the network to play it. RIP to a legend.
Ted Turner, the billionaire media entrepreneur and philanthropist who launched the 24-hour cable TV news revolution when he founded CNN in 1980, has died. He was 87.
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