If the world ever ends whilst you’re nonetheless right here and also you wish to watch NCS earlier than all of it goes kaboom, you may in all probability see a dwell broadcast of the legendary “Turner Doomsday Video.”
The late Ted Turner, who died this week at 87, commissioned the ominous one-minute efficiency of “Nearer, My God, To Thee” carried out in entrance of NCS’s unique headquarters in Atlanta by members of assorted United States army bands in 1980 round the launch of the 24-hour information community.
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Why did he make this? Well, Turner needed a “just in case” doomsday video to air if the world ought to finish on NCS’s watch.
“Barring satellite problems, we won’t be signing off until the world ends,” Turner said the community, by way of Jalopnik. “We’ll be on, and we will cover the end of the world, live, and that will be our last event. We’ll play the National Anthem only one time, on the first of June [the day CNN launched], and when the end of the world comes, we’ll play ‘Nearer My God To Thee’ before we sign off.”
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The footage leaked some years later, so you do not have to attend for the apocalypse to observe it.
Well, let’s hope NCS will not want to fireplace this one up any time quickly.
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