The last song America will ever hear in the event of the world endingIf you’re prone to panic attacks, you may be well advised to simply ditch this piece and click a related link. Locked in a vault at CNN is footage that the world will only see broadcast when it’s all too late. At CNN’s launch in 1980, founder Ted Turner famously proclaimed, “Barring satellite problems, we won’t be signing off until the world ends”. A tape was made and attached to the internal memo: HOLD FOR RELEASE ‘TILL END OF THE WORLD CONFIRMED. The doomsday hint in Turner’s inaugural CNN speech largely went unnoticed until years after Cold War tensions had fizzled out.