![]() "I keep this tape around because when the world ends it'll be over before we can say what we wanted to say. When it was over, in about a minute, the band members snapped their instruments down to parade rest & the screen went dark. We watched & listened as the band completed the hymn. ![]() Turner said, and he left the room, tossing his hands in the air. Weve enlisted Martin Sheen to help make humanitys. "I can't watch this without getting tears in my eyes," Mr. CNN produced an actual doomsday video to broadcast when the world is ending and its incredibly dull. And, I'll tell you, those guys in the military bands knew what I was up to. That would be the last thing CNN played before we-before we signed off. Then, as things cranked uo, I asked if they'd play 'Nearer My God, to Thee' to put on videotape just in case the world ever came to an end. So we got the combined Armed Forces marching bands together -the Army, Navy, Marine & Air Force bands-& took them out to the old CNN headquarters & we had them practice the National Anthem for a videotaping. "But with CNN-a 24-hour-a day channel- we would only sign off once & I knew what that would mean. Normally, when a TV station begins & ends the broacast day, it signs on & off by playing the National Anthem," he said. The video, created at the direction of CNN founder Ted Turner before the networks 1980 launch, is a performance of the Christian hymn Nearer My God To Thee. Turner told us, "Because, just as with guns, if you've got nuclear weapons you're eventually going to use them. Turner think America wanted to hear as it prepared for incineration?. life.Talk story about a signoff tape, made by Ted Turner, head of CNN, in the event of nuclear war. ![]() We hope you've enjoyed our programming, but more importantly, we hope you've enjoyed. ![]() "So when Ted Turner said that CNN was going to be playing "Nearer My God To Thee"-the song the band supposedly played when the Titanic went down-as the heavens opened up, as the fiery finger of God rained salt and brimstone from the sky, as the Earth beneath our feet opened from below and swallowed everything above, as the last CNN employee, in the last surviving CNN studio in the world, witnessed the end of existence before them, he meant it."īut as we all know, the end of the world will sign off with a series of Vines.Īnyway, you can watch the video here, and as Motherboard points out, it may look familiar-in Gremlins 2, Media mogul Daniel Clamp pops a tape in and announced, "I thought this would never run." The tape runs, with a narrator telling viewers, "Because of the end of civilization, the Clamp Cable Network now leaves the air. Jalopnik got a hold of the actual video, which has been on CNN's Mediasource archive systems under "TURNER DOOMSDAY VIDEO," courtesy of former CNN intern Michael Ballaban, who writes: "We won't be signing off until the world ends," he declared, "When the end of the world comes, we'll play 'Nearer My God To Thee' before we sign off." This was, however, largely considered a joke, until now. Doomsday Preparation 8 videos Tour the 'doomsday Disneyland' 02:43 This doomsday bunker costs 3 million 02:10 Trump, Putin cited in doomsday warning 01:27 Inside the Arctic 'Doomsday. Jalopnik writer Michael Ballaban on Monday published this video segment, which is apparently titled TURNER DOOMSDAY VIDEO and includes a restriction instructing users to hold for release. Media outlets often have obituaries banked for when certain notables die, so why should it be any different for when the whole world dies? When CNN launched in 1980, Ted Turner created a video that the network would air when the world was ending, as long as the world ending didn't cause any satellite problems.
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