The inventor of 24-hour news, Burt Reinhardt, died
The former president of CNN, Burt Reinhardt, the news television pioneer, died at 91 years old in his house in Georgia, his daughter, Cheryl Reinhardt, announced. Reinhardt suffered a lot of strokes and for this reason he had a lots of health complications. The people close to Reinhardt remembered him as a visionary and the best leader. The founder of Cable News Network (CNN) said that his colleague was a quiet man, often too quiet, but with a lot of ambition and initiative. Their dream was to have the best news television that is way he was the promoter of the 24 hour news concept, in order to offer the viewers the news in the moment that it happens and not later. More, he remembered how they both covered a lot of subjects without a strong budget, but with the will of making the best job for the people who chooses to see only news every day.
Another close colleague of Reinhardt, the chief of the international correspondents, Christiane Amanpour, said that surely CNN hasn't been where is right now if it wasn't for his ideas and strong initiatives. For almost 20 years, Burt Reinhardt assured that his own ideas of the television news were functioning and the people's feedback was translated in new directions for CNN. From 1983 until 1990, Reinhardt was the President for CNN. After that he was the vice-president of the whole organization and eleven years ago he retired from television business because of his health problems. He was born in New York and in the World War II had the filmed interventions of this historical act. This experience served him as an editor for Fox Movietone News. Later he became the vice president for United Press International Television News and Paramount Pictures. Here he started to put the basis for the home video development, his daughter told CNN reporters about his father activity.
His nephew, Harlan Reinhardt, sees him as the most influent people from the news television. The colleague Amanpour added that the key moments for CNN were speculated by Reinhardt and the courage to bring into attention a news channel that was long dead for others was his big talent. The first president of CNN, Reese Schoenfeld, said that without his financial discipline and the quality of his reporter job, CNN wouldn't be in the place it is right now. More, in his opinion, Burt Reinhardt is not only the inventor of a news system that is present in all the successful news stations in the world, but he is the saver for all the people that worked and were dedicated to CNN.
