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 Replica News Center by rexvaughan One of the most widely known things about Atlanta is that it is the home of CNN. It's story is somewhat interesting. Back in the mid 1970's Ted Turner bought a small, struggling TV station. It was so bad that it would periodically just go off the air. What made it a success was old movies and the Atlanta Braves. Now the Turner group includes CNN, CNN Headline, CNN Espanol, TNT, Turner Classic Movies, The Cartoon Network and Turner South. The tour covers some of this and shows some of the studios including the special effects one where the blue background is used, particularly for weather maps. The photo shows a demonstration room with 30+ monitors. The actual news center has 100 monitors. It is an interesting place to visit. The tours run daily from 9:00 to 17:00, last about 45 minutes and depart every 10 minutes. Cost: $10, $9 for Seniors, $7 for children. Young children are not allowed so check the website for more info and reservations. Leave a Comment
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by amybrooke I have never been here, but the people I have spoken to really enjoyed it. Its not the best thing to do in ATL, but I guess its okay to see once...just to say you've seen it. One of those been there, done that things. Leave a Comment
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 CNN Center by tpangelinan Take a tour of the CNN studio and learn about the history of the CNN news that is brought to billions of people every day. The guided tour takes about 50 minutes, you can take this tour 7 days a week from 9 to 5 and they start about every 10 minutes. Fees for the tours are $12 for adults and kids 4-18 is $9. Leave a Comment
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 Inside CNN tour by ATXtraveler One of the reasons for my visit to Atlanta this year was to speak at a seminar occuring in the CNN center in Atlanta. Since I was already going to be onsite at the center, I decided to take the inside tour of how CNN produces its news coverage and gets it out to the public. The tour consists of a guided information tour of the different studio sets, how the reports are found, edited, added to the prompters, and how the reporters get the news out to you. In addition, they show a little of the technology involved in making the product look good to the end user, including teleprompters, green screens, and other little industry tidbits. The tour lasted almost an hour, and our group had 10 people, but the tour before us had about 25. You will start by taking the largest free standing escalator in the world up 8 stories, and then slowly walk downstairs past all the studios. During one of the sessions, you will have the opportunity to pose for a photo behind a news anchor desk, and then purchase that professional photo. In order to maximize profit on this endeavor, they do require no photography on the tour. Overall, this was an interesting tour, and I would likely do it again for the first time if I had this knowledge. Cost as of Nov. 2008 was $12 per person, and photos were available as a set for $20. Youth (4-18): $9 Senior (65+): $11 Group (20+): $10/person (ages 19+) $8/person (ages 4-18) Children 3 and under are free, but must have a ticket. Reservations: Reservations are highly recommended and can be made Monday - Friday from 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. by calling 404.827.2300 or toll free at 1.877.4CNNTOUR Hours: The Inside CNN tour is open daily from 9:00 am - 5:00 pm with tours departing approximately every 10 minutes. Leave a Comment
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This is a large indoor building housing the TV center nucleus of CNN and a number of shops and retail eating places. Tickets to get a tour of the center is $13.75 and $11.75 for seniors. Tour times are generally 9-5.
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 A game versus Miami by PVHS02 Phillips Arena is located right next to the CNN Center. In fact, they're conjoint twins. Hockey, Basketball, Shania Twain, anything you want, Phillips Arena can provide. Leave a Comment
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 photo courtesy of CNN website by Redlats The CNN tour is interesting. It is a 45 minute guided tour through the various networks of Ted Turner's empire. They do some TV demonstrations and show you the actual floor where CNN comes from -- actually you see about six of the departments -- CNN, Headline news, CNN International, Spanish CNN and more. We had been told to get tickets a day in advance, but if you go early, you may get in right away the way we did. We went on a weekend. Problem with that is news is mostly a week-day thing. We were told that nobody watches CNN on weekends, so they send most everbody home -- nobody to watch on the tour. The other thing I found frustrating is they do not let you take pictures after the first 10 minutes of the tour (i.e. no studio pictures). Protecting their copyrights I guess. Price in 2004 was $10 per adult. Leave a Comment Directions: Downtown Atlanta - CNN is attached to the Philips Arena and next to Turner Stadium and Olympic ParkWebsite: http://www.cnn.com/CNNCenter/
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phiips arena is the home of the hawks, and thrashers and where most concerts are. u can either buy tickets at the main ticket office on cent. park drive, or go to the scalper on cent park drive and merietta st. (decatur st. turns into merietta st.) look for the scalper named ted, a heavy set black guy wearing a ball cap. hes go everything and will always work on the price with u. i gone through him a thousand times and never had any problems. if u want his personal number just email me. same goes for all falcon games, u can eaiterh get tickets at the stadium (off blvd ave) or by cnn center.... if u are going to cnn cnn, i highly recommend the cnn studio tour. i been on it 3 times and its always interesting. even if u dont watch cnn (i am a fox news kind of guy) i always heard positive things about the tour... a must do while in atlanta Leave a Comment
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