Highlights for CNN

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  CBC Mourns Loss of Legendary WRAL-TV Anchor Bobbie Battista

  Former CNN anchor Bobbie Battista has passed away at the age of 67, according to a family spokeswoman. Battista passed away on Tuesday morning, March 3, 2020, after a four-year battle with cervical cancer, according to Wendy Guarisco, family spokeswoman. Battista was one of the original CNN Headline News anchors when the network launched in […]
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  Microspace Produces Senator Burr’s Weekly GOP Address (Response to the President)

  MCC Director of Video Services Josh Clary shared an experience he had working with a U.S. Senator  in the Microspace studios with Capcom: North Carolina Senator Richard Burr was recently a guest in Microspace’s Video Services studio filming a live interview for CNN. While here, Senator Burr mentioned that he also needed (at a future date) […]
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  June 14, 1982 Premiere of the Hour Newscast

  Action News 5 at 6:00 was already a juggernaut newscast in March 1982. Arbitron (ARB) showed WRAL’s half hour newscast with a 53 share, while Nielson logged in at 48. As for WTVD, ARB scored them with a 25 and Nielson with a 27.  The very popular Bobbie Battista had transitioned to CNN four months […]
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  Give Us 18 Minutes, We’ll Give You the World

  “I was cable before cable was cool.” Ted Turner, May 1982. Turner, aka “Mouth of the South,” founder of Cable News Network – CNN, was tooting his horn at the National Cable Television Association convention in Las Vegas. However, a month later another 24 hour news operation would offer some competition; Satellite News Network – […]
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  Bobbie Battista at CNN

  Bobbie Battista in her early days as a CNN anchor