So, one year later, and after millions of dollars in renovations, a portion of The CNN Center food court was transformed into a state-of-the-art broadcast studio that seated over two hundred people and Talkback Live was created.
Merging new technology, the internet with television, viewers of the program could call-in like many of CNN's other talk style shows.
Viewers could also fax or go online with partner CompuServe to post their comments on the show's topic in a custom chatroom.
What made the show interactive is that the host would allow panelist and audience members to respond to the fax and online comments.
Also, the show partnered with MCI and American University in Washington, D.C. to have students and professors provide comments and questions via desktop video technology.
Visitors to the 100-seat Information Age Theater were able to watch the show on a 12-monitor video wall and, one day a week, contribute their comments via videoconferencing.
General admission tickets to the show could be found in its Atlanta area stores along with a life-sized poster cutout of Talkback Live host, Susan Rook.
Talkback Live would tackle hot button issues like abortion, sex education, homosexuality and race in America just to name a few.
She worked her last prime time shift on July 28, 1994, and hosted the premiere show of Talkback Live on Monday, August 22, 1994 at 1PM ET.
Joie Chen, Yolanda L. Gaskins, Bill Hemmer, Daryn Kagan, Leon Harris, Chris Rose, and Vince Cellini were among the CNN talent to host the show.
Eventually in 1998 CNN anchors Bobbie Battista and Miles O'Brien were chosen to host Talkback Live.
Some of the most noteworthy panelists include Major League Baseball player Tom Glavine, CNN Legal Analysts Greta Van Susteren and Roger Cossack, political commentator and feminist Susan Estrich, U.S. Representative J. C. Watts, Jr., CNN Correspondent Art Harris, Defense attorney Ed Garland and political commentator and author Julianne Malveaux.
Hannity is now a high profile conservative political commentator on CNN's competitor, Fox News Channel.
Tavis Smiley was a political commentator that made frequent appearances on CNN, including Talkback Live.
Talkback Live was taped in an open air studio in the middle of the CNN Center atrium in downtown Atlanta.