CNN said goodbye to its headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia ending its 35 years of broadcasting from the center on Friday, October 27.
CNN host Kate Bolduan announced at the beginning of Friday’s episode of News Central CNN that the program was the last presented by control rooms at the CNN Center in Atlanta.
According to the host, the operations were prepared to move to the renovated 30-acre Turner Techwood campus in Midtown.
“Before we go today, we are marking an important moment today in CNN’s history. Today’s show will be the final broadcast from the CNN Center in Atlanta,” Bolduan stated.
Bolduan showed live footage of the building set to close, taking note of the “big CNN sign” on top of the structure. She noted that she and her fellow anchors work from New York, while the show’s control rooms and much of the editorial staff work from the iconic CNN Center, also known as CNN’s World News Headquarters.
“Starting Monday, our team there will move to a new home just a couple miles away, but it’s actually, the new home is actually the place where CNN founder Ted Turner started the network back in 1980,” Bolduan announced.
Bolduan played a clip from the first broadcast from the CNN Center that showed the first episode of “Daybreak,” featuring former hosts Donna Kelley and Brian Nelson.
Following the throwback, the anchor showed footage of employees waving goodbye from CNN’s two Atlanta control rooms.
According to some pundits, CNN was moving due to the drop in ratings.
However, others argued it was a way of converging its Newsroom and meeting the current production demands among news consumers.
