![]() ![]() “Working with a young staff with limited experience in putting live, breaking news on the air was amazing,” Furnad recently said. Video of CNN’s behind-the-scenes coverage that day shows former CNN executive Bob Furnad working feverishly at the center of the noisy and cramped control room (the control room, anchor desk and newsroom were all beside each other) at one point shouting for everyone to shut up, with a cigarette dangling from his mouth. Yet the Challenger disaster came as the young cable channel struggled to figure out its mission. Today – with the advent of numerous round-the-clock news channels, social media and smartphones in nearly everyone’s hands – it’s expected that we’ll witness historical moments live, or moments later.ģ0 years after the #SpaceShuttle #Challenger exploded, we remember & reflect. Even though CNN’s live coverage received only a passing mention at the time, it’s clear today just how important this moment was in the early days of the information age. This year marks 30 years since the tragedy unfolded on that cold January day. Today CHS honors CHS teacher Christa McAuliffe who was killed #wmur /ODmPqj2IrK- Ray Brewer January 28, 2016 If you were an American kid in 1986, you probably remember exactly where you were: That’s because so many classrooms were watching the shuttle launch live via a special NASA satellite feed to showcase what would have been the first American teacher in space, Christa McAuliffe.ģ0 yrs ago the Challenger exploded. READ: Challenger memories, 30 years later “We were all just looking at each other wondering ‘OK, what’s happened here?’” “I just remember seeing the cloud of smoke and what looked like fireworks coming out from the vehicle,” recalled John Zarrella, who covered the launch at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center for CNN. Yet, when NASA’s Challenger shuttle exploded on January 28, 1986, killing all seven crew members, the catastrophe unfolded live on a little known 24-hour news channel: CNN. That’s how it was, for the most part, in the 1980s. Try to imagine a world with no social media, no smartphones, no Internet – where a tragedy unfolds and you may not see video or hear about it until hours later.
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