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Review of CNN Greece

Unimpressive - not worth the money! Just go to the...

Unimpressive - not worth the money! Just go to the gift shop is good enough. The tour guide was very nice, and she talked loud and clear though. It was stupid that they make you watch videos that you can find it easily online anyway, why paid them to watch it there? I feel like the tour was designed before the internet because what they showed us and told us are nothing that can't be found in the top results of a Google search.

You take the longest free standing 8 story high escalator, then they take a pictures for you with a CNN mic that you will have to buy it if you want it. Then the tour stops are as listed below.

1 - (pictures allowed) a taste of what the producers see on their screens. The preset and live program.
2 - (pictures allowed) teleprompter and green screen demo.
3 - (no more pictures from this point) look at the empty studio for HLN and Morning Express behind a window, and they tell you there's 4 camera that worth 300K each.
4 - look down to their open office space where staffs have 2 to 4 monitors each on their space. They tell you their education background and how fast they can produce any news segments.
5 - go into a room that display their online content and show you a video from The Great Big Story where you can watch on FB as well.
6 - standing on the balcony looking into the empty studio for Spanish CNN and tell you about the tile map down on the food court floor.
7 - look at 2 person that control all the lighting of a studio outside of a window.
8 - watch a film with the popular anchors talk about why they wanna 'go there' with CNN. It was like a long commercial. Then they send you out to the gift shop.