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The CNN Center is the world headquarters of CNN. The main newsrooms and studios for several of CNN's news channels are located in the building. The facility's commercial office space is occupied entirely by CNN and its parent company, Turner Broadcasting System, a subsidiary of Time Warner. The CNN Center is located in Downtown Atlanta, Georgia, adjacent to Centennial Olympic Park. ==History== The CNN Center opened in 1976 as the Omni Complex, which was a development by Cousins Properties. The Omni Coliseum, an NBA and NHL arena directly connected to the Omni Complex, opened 3 years earlier, on October 14, 1972. The Omni Complex largely sat vacant until CNN moved its headquarters there in 1987 from its Midtown Atlanta site (old home of the Progressive Club on 1050 Techwood Drive and home to Turner Broadcasting System).〔http://www.atlantatimemachine.com/misc/techwd1.htm〕 The facility originally offered office space to various business tenants, as well as consulates over the years. The main floor featured an indoor ice skating rink, as well as a small number of restaurants and a Gold Mine video arcade. More famously, Sid and Marty Krofft built an indoor amusement park called The World of Sid and Marty Krofft, inspired by the creations of the popular children's television producers. The park was the first indoor theme park and opened in 1976, but closed within six months. The complex also featured a multi-screen movie theater. For years, the theater offered showings of ''Gone with the Wind'', Ted Turner's favorite movie. The theater was replaced during renovations to put in a new newsroom for CNN's website operations. The ice skating rink was filled in and a mosaic map of the world replaced it (featuring brass markers indicating the locations of CNN bureaus around the world). When CNN networks moved to the CNN Center in 1987, (previously having been based in a former country club on Techwood Drive in Midtown Atlanta, which currently serves as the campus for nearly all other Turner networks and Turner Studios; the mansion facade also served as the logo for Turner's theatrical and home video arms during the 1990s), CNN Headline News (now known as HLN) was the first network to broadcast a show from it at 3.00 ET with its program # 96,115. Their sister channel started live programming at 6.00 p.m. ET of that day. On May 11, 1997, the Omni Coliseum closed. Its replacement, the Philips Arena, broke ground on June 5, 1997. The Omni Coliseum was imploded on July 26, 1997. It was believed that the CNN Center was damaged after the implosion. The Philips Arena opened on September 18, 1999. The Omni Coliseum's scoreboard is still in use, and is currently the scoreboard at the Philips Arena. On March 14, 2008, a EF-2 〔(Tornado trashes Atlanta - CNN.com )〕 tornado passed through downtown Atlanta, damaging the CNN Center and leaving water and dust in the upper floors. The ceiling of the atrium was also damaged, causing water to pour in and partially flood the food court. CNN's library was damaged, although it is unknown at the moment how much of its archives were damaged.〔(Rescuers search for Atlanta tornado victims - CNN.com )〕 Numerous injuries and widespread damage were reported overall. The Omni Hotel, attached to the CNN Center, was evacuated as a precaution, and more than 400 rooms had to be emptied of occupancy for two weeks. On June 13, 2014, a car crashed into the CNN center causing minor structural damage.〔(Car crashes through plate glass at CNN Center )〕 The driver of the car claimed to have fallen asleep at the wheel, and was charged with driving under the influence and possession of marijuana. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「CNN Center」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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