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How did we get from an age of dignified nightly news broadcasts on three national networks to the age of 24-hour channels and constantly breaking news? The answer - thanks to Ted Turner and an oddball cast of cable TV visionaries, big league rejects, and nonunion newbies - can be found in the basement of an abandoned country club in Atlanta. Because it was there, in 1980, that this motley crew somehow, against all odds, launched CNN. Up All Night is an inside look at the founding of the upstart network that set out to change the way news was delivered and consumed.

Journalists Lisa Chedekel and Matthew Kauffman, on this edition of Fresh Air. They've won a George Polk Award for their series "Mentally Unfit, Forced to Fight" in the Hartford Courant about the military's flawed mental health system.

TV producers David Shore, Mitchell Hurwitz, and Michael Patrick King and actress Lisa Kudrow on this edition of Fresh Air. Shore and Foster are from the FOX T-V series House. The show is nominated for 4 Emmys. The television awards show airs this Sunday night. Shore is the executive producer. David Foster, M.D. is the medical consultant and writes for the series. House, which airs Tuesday evenings, casts a medical malady as the villain.