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CNN's founder Ted Turner, at the launch of the channel in 1980, promised: "We won't be signing off until the world ends. ... We'll be ... covering it live. ... [And] when the end of the world comes, we'll play 'Nearer My God to Thee' before we sign off."

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CNN has a video of a band playing "Nearer My God To Thee" lined up to air in the last few minutes of airtime before the world ends.

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1. In the event of the end of the world, CNN will air a brief video and play "Nearer My God to Thee"

2. CNN founder Ted Turner created a tape in 1980 for the end of the world, in which 'Nearer, My God, to Thee' will be played, the final song the band played during the sinking of the Titanic. This tape was later leaked by a former CNN intern.

3. The heated debate among Titanic survivors and scholars over which hymn the band was playing during the ship's final plunge. Some say it was "Nearer, My God, to Thee." According to his longtime friend, the band leader once mentioned the song as one he'd play if ever on board a sinking ship.

4. There is the video scheduled to be played by CNN as a signoff in the case that the 24 hour news station is forced to go offline due to a global catastrophe. The song is "Nearer My God to Thee", the same hymn that the band on board the Titanic reportedly performed as the ship sank.

5. CNN plan to play nearer my god to thee (titanic song) at the end of the world.

6. In case of the apocalypse, CNN specifically prepared a video of "Nearer, My God, to Thee" to air before permanently signing off.