Detractors called it the Chicken Noodle Network, but it revolutionized the way the world gets its news. Ted Turner launched the Cable News Network—CNN—in Atlanta as the world’s first 24-hour all news network. Turner had already revolutionized cable television by beaming Superstation TBS around the globe by satellite. Convinced there was a market for an […]

Reaching for the TV remote is such a habit now, it’s hard to imagine Atlanta viewers were once thrilled to have two TV stations to watch. In late 1948, WSB-TV was it. It was six months before you could change channels. Then, on this day in 1949, WAGA went on the air. On a set […]

Vocabulary – Montgomery Meigs Engineered Verb Created, planned, built Aqueduct Noun a pipe or channel for moving water to a lower level, often across a great distance Quartermaster Noun an army officer responsible for providing soldiers with food, clothing, equipment, and living quarters Daunting Adjective likely to discourage, intimidate, or frighten somebody Confiscated Verb to […]

Learn More – Hank Aaron Stan Baldwin, Jerry Jenkins, and Henry Aaron, Bad Henry (Radnor, Pa.: Chilton, 1974). Joe Garner, And the Crowd Goes Wild (Napersville, Ill.: Sourcebooks, 1999). Tom Stanton, Hank Aaron and the Home Run That Changed America (New York: William Morrow, 2004). Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream, dir. Mike Tollin (TBS Productions, […]