CNN Would Air This During the Real Apocalypse. No, Seriously. (Video)

Now, a long-rumored Doomsday video has leaked out of CNN’s archives, and shows us all what’s on the schedule for your final television broadcast. A super lame marching band of sorts. Yup, this was Ted Turner’s grand vision all of those years ago.

As explained by Jalopnik.com:

“Thirty-four years ago, at the launch of Ted Turner’s Cable News Network, the founder made a grandiose and specific promise about his newly created round-the-clock operation. “Barring satellite problems, we won’t be signing off until the world ends,” Turner declared. And in anticipation, he prepared a final video segment for the apocalypse:

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

Via the same source, below is the never-before-seen video the last living CNN employee will be required to play.

It lives on CNN’s MIRA archive system, under the name TURNER DOOMSDAY VIDEO. Reflecting its status as an artifact, not to be used except in the ultimate emergency, it’s in standard definition, with an aspect ratio of 4:3, perfect for the cathode-ray tube televisions of the 1980s.”

You’ll find much more at the above link. Here’s the morbid video, which isn’t out of the norm for major news outlets. Most pre-write obits for celebs years before their passing.