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Watch This When You're High - The Pre-Recorded Video CNN Will Play When The World Ends

Wiki - "Turner Doomsday Video" is the internal title of a video intended to be broadcast by CNN at the end of the world. The video, created at the direction of CNN founder Ted Turner before the network's 1980 launch,[1] is a performance of the Christian hymn "Nearer My God To Thee" performed by multiple members of the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine bands.[

The recording was made right after "The Star-Spangled Banner" was recorded for CNN's sign-on (which also appeared in TNT's sign-on from 1988). After they recorded it, Turner asked if they would record a song just in case the world came to an end.

At CNN's launch, Ted Turner declared, "Barring satellite problems, we won't be signing off until the world ends":

We'll be on, and we will cover it [the end of the world] live, and that will be our last, last event. We'll play the National Anthem only one time, on the first of June [1980], and when the end of the world comes, we'll play "Nearer My God To Thee" before we sign off.

Rumors of the video have existed as early as 1988, when The New Yorker published an article describing it.[6] However, the video did not become available to the public until 2015, when a writer for Jalopnik revealed a copy of the video that he had recorded during a 2009 internship

The file is believed to be kept alongside bold red letters which read: 'HFR (hold for release' till end of the world confirmed.'

Michael Ballaban, who was an intern in 2009 for Wolf Blizter's program Situation Room, said he was first told about the video by a college professor who had worked at CNN for 20 years.

According to an article he wrote for Jalopnik, he said the clip turned up on a database when he searched for 'Turner Doomsday Video'. 

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