Marc Andreessen

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The a16z Show · Marc Andreessen: Monitoring the Situation and the Future of Media · 21 Apr 2026 podcast

So the two of them came up with this crazy idea, I forget, like 1981 or something.

And they said, how about having a 24-hour news channel, right?

This at the time was like just a completely loopy idea.

Actually, Ted Turner wanted to be a 15-hour-a-day news channel because he assumed that there would be nobody watching over the nine hours overnight.

And Reese was like, nope, 24 hours.

People are going to stay up all night to watch this thing.

And the idea was, by the way, completely alien to what CNN is today.

The idea was this concept that Reese Chunfeld came up with called randomonium, which basically says at any point in time, there is something happening in the world that is like the most amazing, interesting, controversial, bonkers, compelling, transfixing thing that you can imagine.

The current thing.

Exactly.

The current thing.

At any moment in time, there's the current thing.

And so he's like, what should a 24-hour news channel be?

Obviously, what it should do is it should lock onto the current thing.

It should then cover the current thing continuously, right, for as many minutes, hours, or days as that thing is the current thing.

And then he called it randomonium because he basically said for that period, you just put whatever you get, you put on screen.

And so you get whatever fragmentary reports or man on the street interviews or, you know, whatever it is, you just slap the thing on the screen.

And if you get it wrong, you apologize later.

But this is your real time.

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