Happy B'Day Cnn

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, today is the 29th anniversary of the launch of CNN, the first 24-hour news network. Additional data says that only one-fifth of American households had cable in 1980. Now, it reaches almost three quarters of our homes.

Ted Turner's experiment was not expected to succeed. But, we wonder how much such easy access to national and world events and crisis helped cable expand the number and types of stations available.