The wild inside story of the birth of CNN and dawn of the age of 24-hour news. In the summer of 1980, Ted Turner and an oddball cast of cable television visionaries, big league rejects, and nonunion newbies, somehow, against all odds, launched CNN. Lisa Napoli’s Up All Night is an entertaining inside look at the founding of the upstart network that set out to change the way news was delivered and consumed. Mixing media history, a business adventure story, and great characters, Up All Night tells the story of a network that succeeded beyond even the wildest imaginings of its charismatic and uncontrollable founder, and paved the way for the world we live in today.