Iconic sign removed from front of old CNN Center

WSBTV.com ^ | March 4, 2024

[Cecily]

ATLANTA — They are iconic of downtown Atlanta and now a piece of the city’s history is being taken down. The massive CNN letters outside the former CNN Center have been removed.

You’d be hard-pressed on any given day to walk by and not see people taking their photo next to the massive letters. They have become a standard piece of downtown Atlanta as much as State Farm Arena, Mercedes-Benz Stadium and Centennial Olympic Park.

A Channel 2 Action News camera caught crews moving the iconic sign Monday that has stood outside the CNN Center along Centennial Olympic Park Drive since Ted Turner moved the 24-hour news operation there in 1987.

Our cameras were there as construction crews lifted the sign with a crane and placed it onto a large flatbed.

The CNN Center itself is one of the most recognizable in the downtown Atlanta skyline.

[Cecily]

The end of an era in Atlanta. Where will the Peach State's protestors congregate now?

[MTBobcat]

Slap a “TRUMP” on the building to make the crazies easily monitored and contained.

[MplsSteve]

I would have preferred to see the sign blown up - just like the old stone Nazi swastikas were at the end of WWII.

[Joann37]

I didn’t see why it was being removed. Is CNN moving?

[null and void]

The end of an era in Atlanta. Where will the Peach State's protestors congregate now?

Dwarf House?

[null and void]

I didn’t see why it was being removed. Is CNN moving?

It's being moved to its rightful place, just left of the Gates of Hell...

[Cecily]

The old downtown headquarters building was sold in 2020 and that building has been mostly empty over the past few years. The Atlanta operations are now on Techwood Drive near Georgia Tech in Midtown.

[drSteve78]

Cue Seinfeld’s “That’s a Shame “.

[VTenigma]

DIE ALREADY!

[MinorityRepublican]

CNN Studio Tour is permanently closed.

[peggybac]

LOLOLOLOLOL

[BipolarBob]

They needed updating. It will still be CNN but in rainbow colors to reflect inclusion, diversity, derision and scoffing.

[frank ballenger]

Iconic CNN sign. I thought that would be the one with the two people in T shirts pointing to each other, each one with “I’m With Stupid.”

[Deplorable American1776]

The C will be made into a Hammer and Sickle the moved to the new CNN Complex.

[Libloather]

[Deplorable American1776]

Is CNN moving?

It is moving to Cuba, since they are Communist!! 🤓

[DoodleBob]

It almost got to that point in 2020.

[moovova]

[linMcHlp]

bttt