by physician Jack Kevorkian. William F. Buckley mentions in the introduction to his 1998 book, Nearer, My God: An Autobiography of Faith, that the title was inspired by "Nearer My God to Thee". CNN co-founder Ted Turner, at the launch of the channel in 1980, promised: "We won't be signing off until the world ends. ... We'll be ... covering it live. ... [And] when the end of the world comes, we'll play 'Nearer My God to Thee' before we sign off." Turner commissioned a video recording of the hymn for this purpose, played by a military marching band, which he sometimes played for reporters. In 2015, the video, tagged in CNN's database as "[Hold for release] till end of world confirmed", was leaked on the Internet. Among other recordings, Doris Day included the song on her 1962 album You'll Never Walk Alone. A season 3 episode of Homicide: Life on the Street is entitled "Nearer My God to Thee". The song is also played in episodes of the TV series Orphan Black and sung in the TV miniseries Midnight Mass during the final scene of Episode 7, along with a piano arrangement heard throughout the series. Notes References Buckley, William F. Nearer, My God: An Autobiography of Faith, Introduction. Harvest Books, 1998 External links Genesis 28:11-12 (American Standard Version) Links to midi files and sheet music "Nearer, My God, to Thee" mp3 (Bethany) "Nearer, My God, to Thee" at Hymnary.org "Horbury" at Hymnary.org "Nearer, My God, to Thee" mp3 (Propior Deo) Information about the 1917 film at the IMDB database Sheet music to Propior Deo Sheet music for "Nearer, My God, to Thee" from Project Gutenberg (White arrangement) Sheet Music for "Nearer, My God, to Thee", McKinley Music Co., 1909 (Sawyer/Turner arrangement) English Christian hymns Compositions by Arthur Sullivan RMS Titanic Assassination of William McKinley United States presidents and death 19th-century hymns