Up All Night, Lisa Napoli
Up All Night, Lisa Napoli
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Up All Night
Ted Turner, CNN, and the Birth of 24-Hour News

Author: Lisa Napoli

Narrator: Lisa Napoli

Unabridged: 9 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/12/2020


Synopsis

The wild inside story of the birth of CNN and dawn of the age of 24-hour newsHow did we get from an age of dignified nightly news broadcasts on three national networks to the age of 24-hour channels and constantly breaking news? The answer—thanks to Ted Turner and an oddball cast of cable television visionaries, big league rejects, and nonunion newbies—can be found in the basement of an abandoned country club in Atlanta. Because it was there, in the summer of 1980, that this motley crew somehow, against all odds, launched CNN.Lisa Napoli’s Up All Night is an entertaining inside look at the founding of the upstart network that set out to change the way news was delivered and consumed. Mixing media history, a business adventure story, and great characters, Up All Night tells the story of a network that succeeded beyond even the wildest imaginings of its charismatic and uncontrollable founder, and paved the way for the world we live in today.

About Lisa Napoli

Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Lisa Napoli began her career as an unpaid teenage intern at CNN’s New York bureau in the summer of 1981. As a journalist, she has worked at the New York Times, Marketplace, MSNBC, and KCRW. She is the author of two previous books, Radio Shangri-La and Ray & Joan. She lives in Los Angeles.


Reviews

Goodreads review by skip thurnauer on June 12, 2020

Before Ted Turner, television stations turned off their lights, played the national anthem, and displayed a "test screen" or other symbol until broadcasts resumed in the morning. Ted Turner changed that when he bought a small TV station in Atlanta and began playing movies all night long. Soon he's b......more

Goodreads review by J Earl on May 10, 2020

Up All Night: Ted Turner, CNN, and the birth of 24-Hour News by Lisa Napoli is an engrossing history of the lead-up to and launch of 24-hour news. As such, it is also a bit of a biography of Ted Turner since his, um, personality played a large role. This book was more interesting than I anticipated,......more

Goodreads review by meg on February 02, 2025

Turns out, the guy that invented 24-hour news is exactly like you’d think he’d be. I expected this to be a throwaway read; something I take the facts from and nothing else. However, Napoli’s style actually turned this into a somewhat unputdownable read. Ted’s unpredictability is reflected in the som......more

Goodreads review by Brad on July 30, 2020

I worked in the control room of one of the pre-CNN cable systems and we signed on to CNN when the network itself signed on. We were one of the few systems to take advantage of CNN2's local avails in cooperation with the local paper and Ted Turner himself came here to do a local newsbreak himself. (......more

Goodreads review by Karin on February 10, 2025

On another app, with half-star ratings allowed, this would be a 3.5 or even 3.75 rating. I enjoyed it, I would recommend it to some, but not everyone. I didn't love some of the actual writing, the sentence structure was weird sometimes. But the story was a doozy and enjoyable enough to read about th......more