The Creation
In 1980 a new news source was created by Ted Turner, who also created TBS (the Turner Broadcasting System). Ted turner and his associates originally invested 20 million dollars into the new news company. When CNN was launched it was the first all day 24/7 news source and the first all news channel in American history. CNN was immediately successful, with one of the first interviews ever on the channel being of then president Jimmy Carter. It is fair to say that if not for Ted Turner, and thus CNN that Atlanta would not have had the major revival it did in the 80s