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Ted Turner

March 08, 2023

For other people named Ted Turner, see Ted Turner (disambiguation).

Robert Edward "Ted" Turner III (born November 19, 1938) is an American entrepreneur, television producer, media proprietor, and philanthropist. He founded the Cable News Network (CNN), the first 24-hour cable news channel. In addition, he founded WTBS, which pioneered the superstation concept in cable television, which later became TBS.

Ted Turner
Turner in 2015
Born
Robert Edward Turner III

(1938-11-19) November 19, 1938 (age 84)
Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.
Alma materBrown University
Occupation(s)Entrepreneur, television producer, media proprietor, philanthropist
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As a philanthropist, he gave $1 billion to create the United Nations Foundation, a public charity to broaden U.S. support for the UN. Turner serves as Chairman of the United Nations Foundation board of directors.[1] Additionally, in 2001, Turner co-founded the Nuclear Threat Initiative with US Senator Sam Nunn (D-GA). NTI is a non-partisan organization dedicated to reducing global reliance on, and preventing the proliferation of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. He currently serves as Co-Chairman of the Board of Directors.

Turner's media empire began with his father's billboard business, Turner Outdoor Advertising, which he took over in 1963 after his father's suicide.[2] It was worth $1 million. His purchase of an Atlanta UHF station in 1970 began the Turner Broadcasting System. CNN revolutionized news media, covering the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986 and the Persian Gulf War in 1991. Turner turned the Atlanta Braves baseball team into a nationally popular franchise (including winning the 1995 World Series under his ownership), and launched the charitable Goodwill Games. He helped revive interest in professional wrestling by buying World Championship Wrestling (WCW).

Turner's penchant for controversial statements earned him the nicknames "The Mouth of the South" and "Captain Outrageous".[3][4] Turner has also devoted his assets to environmental causes. He was the largest private landowner in the United States until John C. Malone surpassed him in 2011.[5][6] He uses much of his land for ranches to re-popularize bison meat (for his Ted's Montana Grill chain), amassing the largest herd in the world. He also created the environmental-themed animated series Captain Planet and the Planeteers.[7]

Early life

Turner was born on November 19, 1938 in Cincinnati, Ohio,[8] the son of Florence (née Rooney) and Robert Edward Turner II, a billboard magnate.[9] When he was nine, his family moved to Savannah, Georgia and raised him as an Episcopalian.[10] He attended The McCallie School, a private boys' preparatory school in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Turner attended Brown University and was vice-president of the Brown Debating Union and captain of the sailing team. He became a member of Kappa Sigma. Turner initially majored in classics. His father wrote saying that this choice made him "appalled, even horrified", and that he "almost puked".[11] Turner later changed his major to economics, but before receiving a degree, he was expelled for having a female student in his dormitory room.[12] Turner was awarded an honorary B.A. from Brown University in November 1989 when he returned to campus to give the keynote address for the National Association of College Broadcasters second annual conference.

Business career

WTBS

After leaving Brown University, Turner returned to the South in late 1960 to become general manager of the Macon, Georgia branch of his father's business. Following his father's suicide in March 1963, Turner became president and chief executive of Turner Advertising Company when he was 24 and turned the firm into a global enterprise. He joined the Young Republicans, saying he "felt at ease among these budding conservatives and was merely following in [his father]'s far-right footsteps", according to It Ain't as Easy as It Looks.[2]

 

During the Vietnam War era, Turner's business prospered; it had "virtual monopolies in Savannah, Macon, Columbus, and Charleston" and was the "largest outdoor advertising company in the Southeast", according to It Ain't as Easy as It Looks. The book observed that Turner "discovered his father had sheltered a substantial amount of taxable income over the years by personally lending it back to the company" and "discovered that the billboard business could be a gold mine, a tax-depreciable revenue stream that threw off enormous amounts of cash with almost no capital investment".[citation needed]

In the late 1960s, Turner began buying several Southern radio stations.[13] In 1969, he sold his radio stations to buy a struggling television station in Atlanta, UHF Channel 17 WJRJ (now WPCH).[14] At the time, UHF stations did well only in markets without VHF stations, like Fresno, California, or in markets with only one station on VHF. Independent UHF stations were not ratings winners or that profitable even in larger markets, but Turner concluded that this would change as people wanted more than several choices. He changed the call sign to WTCG, erroneously claimed to have stood for "Watch This Channel Grow" but in actuality stood for Turner Communications Group.[15] Initially, the station ran old movies from prior decades, along with theatrical cartoons and bygone sitcoms and drama programs. As a better syndicated product fell off the VHF stations, Turner would acquire it for his station at a very low price. WTCG ran mostly second- and even third-hand programming of the time, including fare such as Gilligan's Island, I Love Lucy, Star Trek, Hazel, and Bugs Bunny. Other low cost content included humorist Bill Tush reading the news at 3 am, prompting Turner to jokingly comment that, "we have a 100% share at this time". Tush would often read the news with his co-anchor Rex, a German Shepherd in shirt and tie. By 1972, WTCG had acquired the rights to telecast Atlanta Braves and Atlanta Hawks games.[16] Turner would go on to purchase UHF Channel 36 WRET (now WCNC) in Charlotte, North Carolina and ran it with a format similar to WTCG.[citation needed]

In 1976, the FCC allowed WTCG to use a satellite to transmit content to local cable TV providers around the nation. On December 17, 1976, the rechristened WTCG-TV Super-Station began to broadcast old movies, situation comedy reruns, cartoons, and sports nationwide to cable-TV subscribers.[17] As cable systems developed, many carried his station to free their schedules, which increased his viewers and advertising. The number of subscribers eventually reached 2 million and Turner's net worth rose to $100 million. He bought a 5,000-acre (20 km2) plantation in Jacksonboro, South Carolina, for $2 million.[18]

In 1978, Turner struck a deal with a student-operated radio station at MIT, Technology Broadcasting System (now WMBR), to obtain the rights to the WTBS call sign for $50,000. Such a move allowed Turner to strengthen the branding of his "Super-Station" using the initials TBS. Turner Communications Group was renamed Turner Broadcasting System and WTCG was renamed WTBS.[19]

In 1976, Turner bought the Atlanta Braves, and in 1977, he bought the Atlanta Hawks, partially to provide programming for WTCG.[20][21] Using the rechristened WTBS superstation's status to broadcast Braves games into nearly every home in North America, Turner turned the Braves into a household name even before their run of success in the 1990s and early 2000s.[22] At one point, he suggested to pitcher Andy Messersmith, who wore number 17, that he change his surname to "Channel" to promote the television station.[23]

In 1986, Turner founded the Goodwill Games with the goal of easing tensions between capitalist and communist countries. Broadcasting the events of these games also provided his superstation the ability to provide Olympic-style sports programming.[24]

Turner Field, first used for the 1996 Summer Olympics as Centennial Olympic Stadium and then converted into a baseball-only facility for the Braves, was named after him.[citation needed]

CNN

 
Turner circa 1976

In 1978, he contacted media executive Reese Schonfeld with his plans to found a 24-hour news channel (Schonfeld had previously approached Turner with the same proposition in 1977 but was rebuffed).[25] Schonfeld responded that it could be done with a staff of 300 if they used an all electronic newsroom and satellites for all transmissions.[25] It would require an initial investment of $15 million–$20 million and several million dollars per month to operate.[25] In 1979, Turner sold his North Carolina station, WRET, to fund the transaction and established its headquarters in lower-cost, non-union Atlanta.[25] Schonfeld was appointed first president and chief executive of the then-named Cable News Network (CNN).[25] CNN hired Jim Kitchell, former general manager of news at NBC as vice president of production and operations; Sam Zelman as vice president of news and executive producer; Bill MacPhail as head of sports, Ted Kavanau as director of personnel, and Burt Reinhardt as vice president of the network.[25] In 1982, Schonfeld was succeeded as CEO by Turner after a dispute over Schonfeld's firing of Sandi Freeman; and was succeeded as president by CNN's executive vice president, Burt Reinhardt.[26]

Turner Doomsday Video

Main article: Turner Doomsday Video

Turner famously stated before the network debuted: "We won't be signing off until the world ends. We'll be on, and we will cover the end of the world, live, and that will be our last event... we'll play the National Anthem only one time, on the 1st of June [the network's debut on June 1, 1980], and when the end of the world comes, we'll play 'Nearer, My God, to Thee' before we sign off." Reportedly, Turner plans to make good on that promise. He commissioned a video recording of a military marching band playing the hymn. Turner has sometimes played the tape for reporters, noting the reason he made it. In 2015, the video was found in CNN's database and leaked. The video was tagged in the database as "[Hold for release] till end of world confirmed".[27]

Other ventures

In 1981, Turner Broadcasting System acquired Brut Productions from Faberge Inc.[28]

After a failed attempt to acquire CBS, Turner purchased the film studio MGM/UA Entertainment Co. from Kirk Kerkorian in 1986 for $1.5 billion.[29] Following the acquisition, Turner had amassed enormous debt and sold parts of the acquisition; Kerkorian bought back MGM/UA Entertainment. The MGM/UA Studio lot in Culver City was sold to Lorimar/Telepictures. Turner kept MGM's pre-May 1986 and pre-merger film and television library.[30][31]

Turner Entertainment was established in August 1986 to oversee film and television properties owned by Turner thanks to the deal with Kerkorian.[citation needed]

Having now acquired MGM's library of 2,200 films made before 1986, Turner had them syndicated on his nationwide television stations.[29] When broadcasting their older films, he aired colorized versions of ones originally shot in black-and-white.[32] Opposition arose from cinephiles, actors, and directors to Turner's colorization efforts. Film critic Roger Ebert wrote on Turner's broadcasting of a colorized Casablanca, "that will be one of the saddest days in the history of the movies. It is sad because it demonstrates that there is no movie that Turner will spare, no classic however great that is safe from the vulgarity of his computerized graffiti gangs."[33] Thanks in part to Turner's colorization, the Library of Congress established the National Film Registry with the aim to preserve American films in their original format.[34]

In 1988, Turner purchased Jim Crockett Promotions which he renamed World Championship Wrestling (WCW) which became the main competitor to Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Federation (WWF). This rivalry became known as the Monday Night Wars, and would last throughout the 1990s. In 2001, under AOL Time Warner, WCW was sold to the WWF.[35]

Also in 1988, he introduced Turner Network Television (TNT) with Gone with the Wind. TNT, initially showing older movies and television shows, added original programs and newer reruns. Turner would later create Turner Classic Movies (TCM) in 1994, airing Turner's pre-1986 MGM library of films alongside those of Warner Bros. made before 1950, though it has expanded its library since.[citation needed]

In 1989, Turner created the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship for fiction offering positive solutions to global problems. The winner, from 2500 entries worldwide, was Daniel Quinn's Ishmael.[citation needed]

 
Turner with Vladimir Putin

In 1990, he created the Turner Foundation, which focuses on philanthropic grants concerning issues pertaining to the environment and overpopulation. In the same year he created Captain Planet, an environmental superhero. Turner produced the television series Captain Planet and the Planeteers and its later sequel series with Captain Planet as the featured character.[36]

In 1992, the pre-May 1986 MGM library, which also included Warner Bros. properties including the early Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies libraries and also the Fleischer Studios and Famous Studios Popeye cartoons from Paramount (and then United Artists), became the core of Cartoon Network. A year before, Turner's companies purchased Hanna-Barbera Productions (whose longtime parent, Taft/Great American Broadcasting, had been headquartered in Turner's original hometown of Cincinnati), beating out several other bidders including MCA Inc. (whose subsidiaries included Universal Pictures and Universal Parks & Resorts) and Hallmark Cards. With the 1996 Time Warner merger, the channel's archives gained the later Warner Bros. cartoon library as well as other Time Warner-owned cartoons.[citation needed]

In 1993, Turner and Russian journalist Eduard Sagalajev founded the Moscow Independent Broadcasting Corporation (MIBC). This corporation operated the sixth frequency in Russian television and founded the Russian channel TV-6.[37] The company was later purchased by Russian businessman Boris Berezovsky and an unknown group of private persons. In 2007 the license for TV-6 had expired and there was no application for renewal.[citation needed]

Time Warner merger

Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. merged with Time Warner, Inc. on October 10, 1996, with Turner as vice chairman and head of Time Warner and Turner's cable networks division.[38] Turner was dropped as head of cable networks by CEO Gerald Levin but remained as Vice Chairman of Time Warner. He resigned as Time Warner vice chairman in 2003 and then from the board of directors in 2006.[39][40]

On January 11, 2001, Time Warner was purchased by America Online (AOL) to become AOL Time Warner,[41] a merger which Turner initially supported.[42] However, the burst of the dot-com bubble hurt the growth and profitability of the AOL division, which in turn dragged down the combined company's performance and stock price. At a board meeting in fall 2001, Turner's outburst against AOL Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin eventually led to Levin's announced resignation effective in early 2002, being replaced by Richard Parsons.[43] In contrast to Levin, who as CEO isolated Turner from important company matters, Parsons invited Turner back to provide strategic advice, although Turner never received an operational role that he sought.[44] The company dropped "AOL" from its name in October 2003. In December 2009, AOL was spun off from the Time Warner conglomerate as a separate company.[citation needed]

Turner was Time Warner's biggest individual shareholder.[43] It is estimated he lost as much as $7 billion when the stock collapsed in the wake of the merger.[45] When asked about buying back his former assets, he replied that he "can't afford them now".[46] In June 2014 Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox made a bid for the company valuing it at $80 billion. The Time Warner board rejected the offer and it was formally withdrawn on August 5, 2014.[citation needed]

Rivalry with Murdoch

Turner had a long-running feud with fellow cable magnate Rupert Murdoch for years. This originated in 1983 when a Murdoch-sponsored yacht collided with the yacht skippered by Turner, Condor, during the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, causing it to run aground 6.2 miles (10.0 km) from the finish line. At the post-race dinner, a drunken Turner verbally assaulted Murdoch, afterward challenging him to a televised fistfight in Las Vegas.[47]

Murdoch's Fox News, established in 1996, became a rival to Turner's CNN to which Murdoch held disdain for its "liberal slant" in news coverage. Time Warner declined to carry it on their New York City cable network in response, who in the midst of a merger, Turner said would "squash Rupert Murdoch like a bug."[48]

In 2003, Turner challenged Murdoch to another fistfight, and later on accused Murdoch of being a "warmonger" for his support and backing of President George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq.[49][50]

However, revealing in an interview with Variety in 2019, Turner said he and Murdoch have since made amends.[51]

Atlanta Braves

Ted Turner
Atlanta Braves – No. 27
Manager
Born: (1938-11-19) November 19, 1938 (age 84)
Cincinnati, Ohio
MLB debut
May 11, 1977, for the Atlanta Braves
Last MLB appearance
May 11, 1977, for the Atlanta Braves
MLB statistics
Games1
Win–loss record0–1
Winning %.000
Teams

For most of his first decade as owner of the Braves, Turner was a very hands-on owner. This peaked in 1977, his second year as owner.[citation needed]

Turner was suspended for one year by Commissioner of Baseball Bowie Kuhn on January 3, 1977, for his actions while pursuing the signing of free agent outfielder Gary Matthews from the San Francisco Giants. Matthews signed a five-year, $1.875 million contract with the Braves on November 18, 1976. Kuhn's actions stemmed from remarks made by Turner to then-Giants owner Bob Lurie during the 1976 World Series. In addition, the Braves were also stripped of their first-round selections in the June 1978 draft of high school and college players.[52] Turner, however, successfully appealed the suspension and Kuhn relented and reinstated the draft selections, one of which would turn out to be Bob Horner from Arizona State University.[53]

On May 11, 1977, with the team mired in a 16-game losing streak, Turner sent manager Dave Bristol on a 10-day "scouting trip" and Turner himself took over as interim manager—the first owner/manager in the majors since Connie Mack. He ran the team for one game (a loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates)[54] before National League president Chub Feeney ordered him to stop running the team. Feeney cited major league rules which bar managers and players from owning stock in their clubs. Turner appealed to Commissioner of Baseball Bowie Kuhn, and showed up to manage the Braves when they returned home. However, Kuhn turned down the appeal, citing Turner's "lack of familiarity with game operations."[55]

In the mid-1980s Turner began leaving day-to-day operations to the baseball operations staff, and the team (still under Turner's ownership) won the 1995 World Series.[citation needed]

The Atlanta Braves were sold by Time Warner (which had assumed control after the merger with Turner Broadcasting) to Liberty Media in 2007.[56]

Awards and honors

 
The Commissioner's Trophy given to the Atlanta Braves—owned at the time by Turner—for winning the 1995 World Series (shown on display at Turner Field—named for Turner—the Braves' home ballpark)

Media

Sports

Halls of Fame

Organizational

Politics

 
Turner and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in December 2015

On September 19, 2006, in a Reuters Newsmaker conference, Turner said of Iran's nuclear position: "They're a sovereign state. We have 28,000. Why can't they have 10? We don't say anything about Israel‍—‌they've got 100 of them approximately‍—‌or India or Pakistan or Russia."[65]

A proponent of healthcare reform bills, Turner has said: "We’re the only first-world country that doesn't have universal healthcare and it's a disgrace."[66]

In 2010, during the wake of both the devastating Deepwater Horizon environmental disaster and the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster that killed 29 miners in West Virginia, Turner stated on CNN that "I'm just wondering if God is telling us He doesn't want to drill offshore. And right before that, we had that coal mine disaster in West Virginia where we lost 29 miners... Maybe the Lord's tired of having the mountains of West Virginia, the tops knocked off of them so they may get more coal. I think maybe we ought to just leave the coal in the ground and go with solar and wind power and geothermals..."[67]

Turner endorsed Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in the run-up for the 2016 U.S. presidential election.[68] In 2018 he revealed he had once considered a run for president when he was married to Jane Fonda, who told him she'd leave him if he did.[69]

Curbing population growth

Along with advocating for clean water and improved stewardship of the land, Turner established the Turner Foundation to address ways to curb population growth.[70] Turner has put $125 million of his own money into the foundation and has set aside $6 million per year to address population growth rates. Addressing the issue at a Montana gathering in 1996 he said "I'm not talking about getting rid of anybody here, I've got 5 children myself." He went on to discuss hunger and poverty and ways to address those issues.[71]

In 2009 Turner met with other business moguls to include Oprah Winfrey, Bill Gates, George Soros and David Rockefeller to address issues ranging from the environment to healthcare. The group also addressed population growth with discussion of vaccines and immunization efforts being criticized due to the perception that decision making and public policy could be directed by a handful of elites. Although no formal statement was released, the event was covered by Paul Harris for The Guardian.[72]

Controversial comments

 
With wife Jane Fonda in 1992

Turner once called observers of Ash Wednesday "Jesus freaks", though he apologized,[73] and dubbed opponents of abortion "bozos".[73]

In 1999, Turner made a joke about Polish mine detectors when asked about Pope John Paul II. After a harsh response from the Polish deputy foreign minister Radek Sikorski, Turner apologized.[74]

In 2002, Turner accused Israel of terror: "The Palestinians are fighting with human suicide bombers, that's all they have. The Israelis ... they've got one of the most powerful military machines in the world. The Palestinians have nothing. So who are the terrorists? I would make a case that both sides are involved in terrorism." He apologized for that and the remarks in 2011 about the 9/11 hijackers, but also defended himself: "Look, I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word ... I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it."[75]

Also in 2008, Turner asserted on PBS's Charlie Rose television program that if steps are not taken to address global warming, most people would die and "the rest of us will be cannibals". Turner also said in the interview that he advocated Americans having no more than two children. In 2010, he stated that China's one-child policy should be implemented.[76]

Turner Enterprises

 
Turner Building Solar Array

Turner Enterprises, Inc. (TEI) is a private American company that was founded in 1976 and manages the business interests, land holdings and investments of Ted Turner,[77] including the oversight of Turner's 24 properties across the U.S. and Argentina. At two million acres of personal and ranch land, Turner is the second-largest landowner in North America.[78] He owned 19 ranches - 16 in the western U.S. and three in Argentina.[78] In January 2016, the Osage Nation bought Turner's 43,000 acre (170 km2) Bluestem Ranch in Osage County, Oklahoma. Turner had purchased the property in 2001 primarily to raise bison.[citation needed]

Through Turner Enterprises, he owns ranches in Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and South Dakota.[79][80] Totaling 1,910,585 acres (7,731.86 km2), his land-holdings across America make Turner one of the largest individual landowners in North America (by acreage).[80]

TEI ranches are primarily used for bison ranching. His bison herd of approximately 51,000 is the largest private herd in the world - is present on 15.[78] The company's mission statement is "To manage Turner lands in an economically sustainable and ecologically sensitive manner while promoting the conservation of native species."[78] Other important wildlife species on the property include whitetail deer, wild turkey and bobwhite quail.[81] In addition to bison ranching, TEI ranches are also used for commercial fishing and hunting, as well as limited sustainable timber harvesting, as well as eco-tourism on the New Mexico ranches.[78] His biggest ranch is Vermejo Park Ranch in New Mexico. At 920 square miles (2,400 km2), it is the largest privately owned, contiguous tract of land in the United States.[82]

TEI works closely with Turner’s philanthropic and charitable interests, including the founding and ongoing operations of the United Nations Foundation, Nuclear Threat Initiative, Turner Foundation,[83] Planet Foundation],[84] and the Turner Endangered Species Fund.[77] Turner Enterprises is headquartered in the Turner Building (formerly the Bona Allen Office Building) in Atlanta, Georgia, also home to the Ted's Montana Grill restaurant chain, Ted Turner Reserves[85] and Turner Renewable Energy.[86][87] In 2011, Ted Turner and TEI completed construction of a 25-panel solar array in the company's parking lot, which provides solar power to the Turner Building and its businesses[88]

Chaired by Turner, TEI's executive leadership also includes CEO & President S. Taylor Glover[89]

Personal life

 
Turner and his third wife, Jane Fonda

Turner has been married and divorced three times: to Judy Nye (1960–1964), Jane Shirley Smith (1965–1988), and actress Jane Fonda (1991–2001). He has five children.[90] In a television interview with Piers Morgan on May 3, 2012, Turner said he had four girlfriends, which he acknowledged was complicated but nonetheless easier than being married.[91] One of Turner's children, Robert Edward "Teddy" Turner IV, announced on January 23, 2013, that he intended to run in the South Carolina Republican primary for the open Congressional seat vacated by Tim Scott who was appointed to the US Senate.[92] Turner's son came in 4th, receiving 7.90% of the vote.[93]

In 2010, Turner joined Warren Buffett's and Bill Gates's The Giving Pledge, vowing to donate the majority of his fortune to charity upon his death.[94] Turner sponsors the public forum debate of the National Speech and Debate Association.[citation needed]

In the 1993 biography It Ain't As Easy as It Looks by Porter Bibb, Turner discussed his use of lithium and struggles with mental illness. The 1981 biography Lead, Follow or Get Out of the Way by Christian Williams chronicles the founding of CNN.[95] In 2008, Turner wrote Call Me Ted, which documents his career and personal life.[96]

In an interview on CBS Sunday Morning in 2018, Turner revealed he is suffering from Lewy body dementia.[97]

Sailing

Ted Turner
Sailing career
Club  Savannah Yacht Club
College team  Brown University
Medal record
Sailing
Representing   United States
World Championships
  1971 Seawanhaka 5.5m
  1970 Sydney 5.5m
  1972 Geneva 5.5m
  1976 Hankø 5.5m

When Turner was 26, he entered sailing competitions at the Savannah Yacht Club and competed in Olympic trials in 1964.[98] He first attempted to win the America's Cup in 1974, in a losing attempt at the defender's trials, aboard Mariner.[99] He appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated on July 4, 1977,[100] after being chosen to lead the 1977 America's Cup defense as skipper of the yacht Courageous.[101] He had been asked to join the America's Cup defense group formed by Lee Loomis and Ted Hood. That group had Courageous and planned to build another yacht, Independence, to be designed and sailed by Hood. But Courageous proved to be the faster boat.[102] On September 18, 1977, he successfully defended the America's Cup, defeating Australia 4–0.[103] He was inducted into the America's Cup Hall of Fame in 1993,[104] and the National Sailing Hall of Fame in 2011.[105]

In the 1979 Fastnet race, in a storm that killed 15 participants, he skippered the S&S-designed[106] 61-footer Tenacious to a corrected-time victory.[107]

Legacy

 
Turner in 1999

Turner has been regarded as one of the entrepreneurs who transformed the cable industry and being referred to as "Alexander the Great of broadcasting".[108]

"While Turner has been described as a "valiant liberator" and cast the networks as oppressive scoundrels, in content his programming fell short of inspiring. His network was built on sitcom reruns, old movies, cartoons, and Atlanta Braves games. He found an audience for classics of a bygone time, along with slightly down-market content like professional wrestling. Nonetheless, he would find glorious terms even for retreads and junk, claiming to be pulling America back to television's golden age: “I want to get it back to the principles” he once said, “that made us good.” Nostalgic, Manichean, and boot-strappy: like programmer, like programming".[108] "The cable industry boomed in the late 1970s and early 1980s, as nearly a dozen cable networks launched based on the Turner model. They include much of what we now consider the staples of cable TV, including ESPN, MTV, Bravo, Showtime, BET, the Discovery Channel, and the Weather Channel. Those are the better-known channels only by virtue of having survived; others, such as ARTS, CBS Cable, and the Satellite News Channel, folded or were acquired by other companies".[108]

Bob Hope who is co-owner and president of Hope-Beckham, an independent agency based in Atlanta that previously worked for Turner in his networks, has described that "Ted Turner was special. His vision and his determination and his unwillingness to quit were infectious. He was willing to start small and had the persistence and patience to make his ideas grow".[109] Hope also further reiterated that "In some ways, he was outrageous, but in most ways he was remarkable. He had great passion for doing what was right for the world. He stated his dream of using communication to bring peace, to tell both sides of any story, that 'one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.' If he could get people to understand each other, there would be no wars. His vision was bold and infectious. His Goodwill Games, his creation of the UN Foundation, and his approach to news on the original CNN were passions for peace".[109]

Professional wrestling promoter and former Senior Vice President of WCW second in charge after Turner, Eric Bischoff praised Turner claiming "He was an inspirational leader, he was a risk taker, he appreciated people who took risks, he was not afraid of failure while most people are. Ted was not afraid to fail, he was more afraid of not trying and not conquering that next horizon.” [110]

On June 24, 1999, Vince McMahon stated on Late Night with Conan O'Brien: "All I'll say about Ted is he's a son-of-a-bitch, other than that, he's probably not a bad guy, but I don't like him at all".[111] Later in 2021, when asked about the upstart AEW in comparison to Turner's WCW, McMahon dismissed AEW, stating that "it certainly is not a situation where 'rising tides' because that was when Ted Turner was coming after us with all of Time Warner's assets as well".[112]

In 2010 Turner was named a Georgia Trustee, an honor given by the Georgia Historical Society, in conjunction with the Governor of Georgia, to individuals whose accomplishments and community service reflect the ideals of the founding body of Trustees, which governed the Georgia colony from 1732 to 1752.

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Further reading

Biographies

  • Media Man: Ted Turner's Improbable Empire by Ken Auletta (W. W. Norton, 2004) ISBN 0-393-05168-4
  • Clash of the Titans: How the Unbridled Ambition of Ted Turner and Rupert Murdoch Has Created Global Empires that Control What We Read and Watch Each Day by Richard Hack (New Millennium Press, 2003) ISBN 1-893224-60-0
  • Me and Ted Against the World: The Unauthorized Story of the Founding of CNN by Reese Schonfeld (HarperBusiness, 2001) 0060197463
  • Ted Turner Speaks: Insights from the World's Greatest Maverick by Janet Lowe (Wiley, 1999) ISBN 0-471-34563-6
  • Riding A White Horse: Ted Turner's Goodwill Games and Other Crusades by Althea Carlson (Episcopal Press, 1998) ISBN 0-9663743-0-4
  • Porter Bibb (1996). Ted Turner: It Ain't As Easy as It Looks: The Amazing Story of CNN. Virgin Books. ISBN 0-86369-892-1.
  • Citizen Turner: The Wild Rise of an American Tycoon by Robert Goldberg and Gerald Jay Goldberg (Harcourt, 1995) ISBN 0-15-118008-3
  • CNN: The Inside Story: How a Band of Mavericks Changed the Face of Television News by Hank Whittemore (Little Brown & Co, 1990) ISBN 0-316-93761-4
  • Lead Follow or Get Out of the Way: The Story of Ted Turner by Christian Williams (Times Books, 1981) ISBN 0-8129-1004-4
  • Atlanta Rising: The Invention of an International City 1946–1996 by Frederick Allen (Longstreet Press, 1996) ISBN 1-56352-296-9

External links

 
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turner, other, people, named, disambiguation, robert, edward, turner, born, november, 1938, american, entrepreneur, television, producer, media, proprietor, philanthropist, founded, cable, news, network, first, hour, cable, news, channel, addition, founded, wt. For other people named Ted Turner see Ted Turner disambiguation Robert Edward Ted Turner III born November 19 1938 is an American entrepreneur television producer media proprietor and philanthropist He founded the Cable News Network CNN the first 24 hour cable news channel In addition he founded WTBS which pioneered the superstation concept in cable television which later became TBS Ted TurnerTurner in 2015BornRobert Edward Turner III 1938 11 19 November 19 1938 age 84 Cincinnati Ohio U S Alma materBrown UniversityOccupation s Entrepreneur television producer media proprietor philanthropistKnown forFounder of TNT TBS and CNNCo founder of the Nuclear Threat InitiativeFormer Atlanta Hawks ownerFormer Atlanta Braves ownerFormer Atlanta Thrashers ownerFormer World Championship Wrestling ownerCo founder of Ted s Montana GrillFounder of TV 6Co creator of Captain Planet and the PlaneteersSpouse s Julia Gale Nye m 1960 div 1964 wbr Jane Shirley Smith m 1965 div 1988 wbr Jane Fonda m 1991 div 2001 wbr Children5Websitetedturner wbr comSignatureAs a philanthropist he gave 1 billion to create the United Nations Foundation a public charity to broaden U S support for the UN Turner serves as Chairman of the United Nations Foundation board of directors 1 Additionally in 2001 Turner co founded the Nuclear Threat Initiative with US Senator Sam Nunn D GA NTI is a non partisan organization dedicated to reducing global reliance on and preventing the proliferation of nuclear chemical and biological weapons He currently serves as Co Chairman of the Board of Directors Turner s media empire began with his father s billboard business Turner Outdoor Advertising which he took over in 1963 after his father s suicide 2 It was worth 1 million His purchase of an Atlanta UHF station in 1970 began the Turner Broadcasting System CNN revolutionized news media covering the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986 and the Persian Gulf War in 1991 Turner turned the Atlanta Braves baseball team into a nationally popular franchise including winning the 1995 World Series under his ownership and launched the charitable Goodwill Games He helped revive interest in professional wrestling by buying World Championship Wrestling WCW Turner s penchant for controversial statements earned him the nicknames The Mouth of the South and Captain Outrageous 3 4 Turner has also devoted his assets to environmental causes He was the largest private landowner in the United States until John C Malone surpassed him in 2011 5 6 He uses much of his land for ranches to re popularize bison meat for his Ted s Montana Grill chain amassing the largest herd in the world He also created the environmental themed animated series Captain Planet and the Planeteers 7 Contents 1 Early life 2 Business career 2 1 WTBS 2 2 CNN 2 2 1 Turner Doomsday Video 2 3 Other ventures 2 4 Time Warner merger 2 5 Rivalry with Murdoch 2 6 Atlanta Braves 3 Awards and honors 4 Politics 4 1 Curbing population growth 5 Controversial comments 6 Turner Enterprises 7 Personal life 8 Sailing 9 Legacy 10 References 11 Further reading 11 1 Biographies 12 External linksEarly lifeTurner was born on November 19 1938 in Cincinnati Ohio 8 the son of Florence nee Rooney and Robert Edward Turner II a billboard magnate 9 When he was nine his family moved to Savannah Georgia and raised him as an Episcopalian 10 He attended The McCallie School a private boys preparatory school in Chattanooga Tennessee Turner attended Brown University and was vice president of the Brown Debating Union and captain of the sailing team He became a member of Kappa Sigma Turner initially majored in classics His father wrote saying that this choice made him appalled even horrified and that he almost puked 11 Turner later changed his major to economics but before receiving a degree he was expelled for having a female student in his dormitory room 12 Turner was awarded an honorary B A from Brown University in November 1989 when he returned to campus to give the keynote address for the National Association of College Broadcasters second annual conference Business careerWTBS After leaving Brown University Turner returned to the South in late 1960 to become general manager of the Macon Georgia branch of his father s business Following his father s suicide in March 1963 Turner became president and chief executive of Turner Advertising Company when he was 24 and turned the firm into a global enterprise He joined the Young Republicans saying he felt at ease among these budding conservatives and was merely following in his father s far right footsteps according to It Ain t as Easy as It Looks 2 During the Vietnam War era Turner s business prospered it had virtual monopolies in Savannah Macon Columbus and Charleston and was the largest outdoor advertising company in the Southeast according to It Ain t as Easy as It Looks The book observed that Turner discovered his father had sheltered a substantial amount of taxable income over the years by personally lending it back to the company and discovered that the billboard business could be a gold mine a tax depreciable revenue stream that threw off enormous amounts of cash with almost no capital investment citation needed In the late 1960s Turner began buying several Southern radio stations 13 In 1969 he sold his radio stations to buy a struggling television station in Atlanta UHF Channel 17 WJRJ now WPCH 14 At the time UHF stations did well only in markets without VHF stations like Fresno California or in markets with only one station on VHF Independent UHF stations were not ratings winners or that profitable even in larger markets but Turner concluded that this would change as people wanted more than several choices He changed the call sign to WTCG erroneously claimed to have stood for Watch This Channel Grow but in actuality stood for Turner Communications Group 15 Initially the station ran old movies from prior decades along with theatrical cartoons and bygone sitcoms and drama programs As a better syndicated product fell off the VHF stations Turner would acquire it for his station at a very low price WTCG ran mostly second and even third hand programming of the time including fare such as Gilligan s Island I Love Lucy Star Trek Hazel and Bugs Bunny Other low cost content included humorist Bill Tush reading the news at 3 am prompting Turner to jokingly comment that we have a 100 share at this time Tush would often read the news with his co anchor Rex a German Shepherd in shirt and tie By 1972 WTCG had acquired the rights to telecast Atlanta Braves and Atlanta Hawks games 16 Turner would go on to purchase UHF Channel 36 WRET now WCNC in Charlotte North Carolina and ran it with a format similar to WTCG citation needed In 1976 the FCC allowed WTCG to use a satellite to transmit content to local cable TV providers around the nation On December 17 1976 the rechristened WTCG TV Super Station began to broadcast old movies situation comedy reruns cartoons and sports nationwide to cable TV subscribers 17 As cable systems developed many carried his station to free their schedules which increased his viewers and advertising The number of subscribers eventually reached 2 million and Turner s net worth rose to 100 million He bought a 5 000 acre 20 km2 plantation in Jacksonboro South Carolina for 2 million 18 In 1978 Turner struck a deal with a student operated radio station at MIT Technology Broadcasting System now WMBR to obtain the rights to the WTBS call sign for 50 000 Such a move allowed Turner to strengthen the branding of his Super Station using the initials TBS Turner Communications Group was renamed Turner Broadcasting System and WTCG was renamed WTBS 19 In 1976 Turner bought the Atlanta Braves and in 1977 he bought the Atlanta Hawks partially to provide programming for WTCG 20 21 Using the rechristened WTBS superstation s status to broadcast Braves games into nearly every home in North America Turner turned the Braves into a household name even before their run of success in the 1990s and early 2000s 22 At one point he suggested to pitcher Andy Messersmith who wore number 17 that he change his surname to Channel to promote the television station 23 In 1986 Turner founded the Goodwill Games with the goal of easing tensions between capitalist and communist countries Broadcasting the events of these games also provided his superstation the ability to provide Olympic style sports programming 24 Turner Field first used for the 1996 Summer Olympics as Centennial Olympic Stadium and then converted into a baseball only facility for the Braves was named after him citation needed CNN Turner circa 1976 In 1978 he contacted media executive Reese Schonfeld with his plans to found a 24 hour news channel Schonfeld had previously approached Turner with the same proposition in 1977 but was rebuffed 25 Schonfeld responded that it could be done with a staff of 300 if they used an all electronic newsroom and satellites for all transmissions 25 It would require an initial investment of 15 million 20 million and several million dollars per month to operate 25 In 1979 Turner sold his North Carolina station WRET to fund the transaction and established its headquarters in lower cost non union Atlanta 25 Schonfeld was appointed first president and chief executive of the then named Cable News Network CNN 25 CNN hired Jim Kitchell former general manager of news at NBC as vice president of production and operations Sam Zelman as vice president of news and executive producer Bill MacPhail as head of sports Ted Kavanau as director of personnel and Burt Reinhardt as vice president of the network 25 In 1982 Schonfeld was succeeded as CEO by Turner after a dispute over Schonfeld s firing of Sandi Freeman and was succeeded as president by CNN s executive vice president Burt Reinhardt 26 Turner Doomsday Video Main article Turner Doomsday Video Turner famously stated before the network debuted We won t be signing off until the world ends We ll be on and we will cover the end of the world live and that will be our last event we ll play the National Anthem only one time on the 1st of June the network s debut on June 1 1980 and when the end of the world comes we ll play Nearer My God to Thee before we sign off Reportedly Turner plans to make good on that promise He commissioned a video recording of a military marching band playing the hymn Turner has sometimes played the tape for reporters noting the reason he made it In 2015 the video was found in CNN s database and leaked The video was tagged in the database as Hold for release till end of world confirmed 27 Other ventures In 1981 Turner Broadcasting System acquired Brut Productions from Faberge Inc 28 After a failed attempt to acquire CBS Turner purchased the film studio MGM UA Entertainment Co from Kirk Kerkorian in 1986 for 1 5 billion 29 Following the acquisition Turner had amassed enormous debt and sold parts of the acquisition Kerkorian bought back MGM UA Entertainment The MGM UA Studio lot in Culver City was sold to Lorimar Telepictures Turner kept MGM s pre May 1986 and pre merger film and television library 30 31 Turner Entertainment was established in August 1986 to oversee film and television properties owned by Turner thanks to the deal with Kerkorian citation needed Having now acquired MGM s library of 2 200 films made before 1986 Turner had them syndicated on his nationwide television stations 29 When broadcasting their older films he aired colorized versions of ones originally shot in black and white 32 Opposition arose from cinephiles actors and directors to Turner s colorization efforts Film critic Roger Ebert wrote on Turner s broadcasting of a colorized Casablanca that will be one of the saddest days in the history of the movies It is sad because it demonstrates that there is no movie that Turner will spare no classic however great that is safe from the vulgarity of his computerized graffiti gangs 33 Thanks in part to Turner s colorization the Library of Congress established the National Film Registry with the aim to preserve American films in their original format 34 In 1988 Turner purchased Jim Crockett Promotions which he renamed World Championship Wrestling WCW which became the main competitor to Vince McMahon s World Wrestling Federation WWF This rivalry became known as the Monday Night Wars and would last throughout the 1990s In 2001 under AOL Time Warner WCW was sold to the WWF 35 Also in 1988 he introduced Turner Network Television TNT with Gone with the Wind TNT initially showing older movies and television shows added original programs and newer reruns Turner would later create Turner Classic Movies TCM in 1994 airing Turner s pre 1986 MGM library of films alongside those of Warner Bros made before 1950 though it has expanded its library since citation needed In 1989 Turner created the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship for fiction offering positive solutions to global problems The winner from 2500 entries worldwide was Daniel Quinn s Ishmael citation needed Turner with Vladimir Putin In 1990 he created the Turner Foundation which focuses on philanthropic grants concerning issues pertaining to the environment and overpopulation In the same year he created Captain Planet an environmental superhero Turner produced the television series Captain Planet and the Planeteers and its later sequel series with Captain Planet as the featured character 36 In 1992 the pre May 1986 MGM library which also included Warner Bros properties including the early Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies libraries and also the Fleischer Studios and Famous Studios Popeye cartoons from Paramount and then United Artists became the core of Cartoon Network A year before Turner s companies purchased Hanna Barbera Productions whose longtime parent Taft Great American Broadcasting had been headquartered in Turner s original hometown of Cincinnati beating out several other bidders including MCA Inc whose subsidiaries included Universal Pictures and Universal Parks amp Resorts and Hallmark Cards With the 1996 Time Warner merger the channel s archives gained the later Warner Bros cartoon library as well as other Time Warner owned cartoons citation needed In 1993 Turner and Russian journalist Eduard Sagalajev founded the Moscow Independent Broadcasting Corporation MIBC This corporation operated the sixth frequency in Russian television and founded the Russian channel TV 6 37 The company was later purchased by Russian businessman Boris Berezovsky and an unknown group of private persons In 2007 the license for TV 6 had expired and there was no application for renewal citation needed Time Warner merger Turner Broadcasting System Inc merged with Time Warner Inc on October 10 1996 with Turner as vice chairman and head of Time Warner and Turner s cable networks division 38 Turner was dropped as head of cable networks by CEO Gerald Levin but remained as Vice Chairman of Time Warner He resigned as Time Warner vice chairman in 2003 and then from the board of directors in 2006 39 40 On January 11 2001 Time Warner was purchased by America Online AOL to become AOL Time Warner 41 a merger which Turner initially supported 42 However the burst of the dot com bubble hurt the growth and profitability of the AOL division which in turn dragged down the combined company s performance and stock price At a board meeting in fall 2001 Turner s outburst against AOL Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin eventually led to Levin s announced resignation effective in early 2002 being replaced by Richard Parsons 43 In contrast to Levin who as CEO isolated Turner from important company matters Parsons invited Turner back to provide strategic advice although Turner never received an operational role that he sought 44 The company dropped AOL from its name in October 2003 In December 2009 AOL was spun off from the Time Warner conglomerate as a separate company citation needed Turner was Time Warner s biggest individual shareholder 43 It is estimated he lost as much as 7 billion when the stock collapsed in the wake of the merger 45 When asked about buying back his former assets he replied that he can t afford them now 46 In June 2014 Rupert Murdoch s 21st Century Fox made a bid for the company valuing it at 80 billion The Time Warner board rejected the offer and it was formally withdrawn on August 5 2014 citation needed Rivalry with Murdoch Turner had a long running feud with fellow cable magnate Rupert Murdoch for years This originated in 1983 when a Murdoch sponsored yacht collided with the yacht skippered by Turner Condor during the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race causing it to run aground 6 2 miles 10 0 km from the finish line At the post race dinner a drunken Turner verbally assaulted Murdoch afterward challenging him to a televised fistfight in Las Vegas 47 Murdoch s Fox News established in 1996 became a rival to Turner s CNN to which Murdoch held disdain for its liberal slant in news coverage Time Warner declined to carry it on their New York City cable network in response who in the midst of a merger Turner said would squash Rupert Murdoch like a bug 48 In 2003 Turner challenged Murdoch to another fistfight and later on accused Murdoch of being a warmonger for his support and backing of President George W Bush s invasion of Iraq 49 50 However revealing in an interview with Variety in 2019 Turner said he and Murdoch have since made amends 51 Atlanta Braves Ted TurnerAtlanta Braves No 27ManagerBorn 1938 11 19 November 19 1938 age 84 Cincinnati OhioMLB debutMay 11 1977 for the Atlanta BravesLast MLB appearanceMay 11 1977 for the Atlanta BravesMLB statisticsGames1Win loss record0 1Winning 000TeamsAtlanta Braves 1977 For most of his first decade as owner of the Braves Turner was a very hands on owner This peaked in 1977 his second year as owner citation needed Turner was suspended for one year by Commissioner of Baseball Bowie Kuhn on January 3 1977 for his actions while pursuing the signing of free agent outfielder Gary Matthews from the San Francisco Giants Matthews signed a five year 1 875 million contract with the Braves on November 18 1976 Kuhn s actions stemmed from remarks made by Turner to then Giants owner Bob Lurie during the 1976 World Series In addition the Braves were also stripped of their first round selections in the June 1978 draft of high school and college players 52 Turner however successfully appealed the suspension and Kuhn relented and reinstated the draft selections one of which would turn out to be Bob Horner from Arizona State University 53 On May 11 1977 with the team mired in a 16 game losing streak Turner sent manager Dave Bristol on a 10 day scouting trip and Turner himself took over as interim manager the first owner manager in the majors since Connie Mack He ran the team for one game a loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates 54 before National League president Chub Feeney ordered him to stop running the team Feeney cited major league rules which bar managers and players from owning stock in their clubs Turner appealed to Commissioner of Baseball Bowie Kuhn and showed up to manage the Braves when they returned home However Kuhn turned down the appeal citing Turner s lack of familiarity with game operations 55 In the mid 1980s Turner began leaving day to day operations to the baseball operations staff and the team still under Turner s ownership won the 1995 World Series citation needed The Atlanta Braves were sold by Time Warner which had assumed control after the merger with Turner Broadcasting to Liberty Media in 2007 56 Awards and honors The Commissioner s Trophy given to the Atlanta Braves owned at the time by Turner for winning the 1995 World Series shown on display at Turner Field named for Turner the Braves home ballpark Media 1984 Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement 57 1989 Paul White Award Radio Television Digital News Association 58 1990 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism 59 1991 Time magazine s Man of the Year 1997 Peabody Award winner 1999 Edison Achievement Award for his commitment to innovation throughout his career 2000 Edward R Murrow Award for Lifetime Achievement in Communication 60 Two time Emmy Award winner Lifetime Achievement Sports 2014 Lifetime Achievement News amp Documentary 2015 Sports 1995 World Series champion as owner of the Atlanta Braves 1996 Atlanta Braves home ballpark 1996 2016 named Turner Field 2004 Commemorative banner at State Farm Arena honoring his tenure as owner of the Atlanta Hawks 61 Halls of Fame 1991 Television Hall of Fame inductee 2004 Star on the Hollywood Walk of FameOrganizational 1991 Audubon medal from the National Audubon Society 62 2001 Albert Schweitzer Gold Medal for Humanitarianism 2010 Georgia Trustee an honor given by the Georgia Historical Society in conjunction with the Governor of Georgia 63 2013 Lone Sailor Award which recognizes Navy Marine and Coast Guard veterans who have distinguished themselves in their civilian careers Turner is a Coast Guard veteran 64 Politics Turner and U S Secretary of State John Kerry in December 2015 On September 19 2006 in a Reuters Newsmaker conference Turner said of Iran s nuclear position They re a sovereign state We have 28 000 Why can t they have 10 We don t say anything about Israel they ve got 100 of them approximately or India or Pakistan or Russia 65 A proponent of healthcare reform bills Turner has said We re the only first world country that doesn t have universal healthcare and it s a disgrace 66 In 2010 during the wake of both the devastating Deepwater Horizon environmental disaster and the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster that killed 29 miners in West Virginia Turner stated on CNN that I m just wondering if God is telling us He doesn t want to drill offshore And right before that we had that coal mine disaster in West Virginia where we lost 29 miners Maybe the Lord s tired of having the mountains of West Virginia the tops knocked off of them so they may get more coal I think maybe we ought to just leave the coal in the ground and go with solar and wind power and geothermals 67 Turner endorsed Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in the run up for the 2016 U S presidential election 68 In 2018 he revealed he had once considered a run for president when he was married to Jane Fonda who told him she d leave him if he did 69 Curbing population growth Along with advocating for clean water and improved stewardship of the land Turner established the Turner Foundation to address ways to curb population growth 70 Turner has put 125 million of his own money into the foundation and has set aside 6 million per year to address population growth rates Addressing the issue at a Montana gathering in 1996 he said I m not talking about getting rid of anybody here I ve got 5 children myself He went on to discuss hunger and poverty and ways to address those issues 71 In 2009 Turner met with other business moguls to include Oprah Winfrey Bill Gates George Soros and David Rockefeller to address issues ranging from the environment to healthcare The group also addressed population growth with discussion of vaccines and immunization efforts being criticized due to the perception that decision making and public policy could be directed by a handful of elites Although no formal statement was released the event was covered by Paul Harris for The Guardian 72 Controversial comments With wife Jane Fonda in 1992 Turner once called observers of Ash Wednesday Jesus freaks though he apologized 73 and dubbed opponents of abortion bozos 73 In 1999 Turner made a joke about Polish mine detectors when asked about Pope John Paul II After a harsh response from the Polish deputy foreign minister Radek Sikorski Turner apologized 74 In 2002 Turner accused Israel of terror The Palestinians are fighting with human suicide bombers that s all they have The Israelis they ve got one of the most powerful military machines in the world The Palestinians have nothing So who are the terrorists I would make a case that both sides are involved in terrorism He apologized for that and the remarks in 2011 about the 9 11 hijackers but also defended himself Look I m a very good thinker but I sometimes grab the wrong word I mean I don t type my speeches then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter you know I wing it 75 Also in 2008 Turner asserted on PBS s Charlie Rose television program that if steps are not taken to address global warming most people would die and the rest of us will be cannibals Turner also said in the interview that he advocated Americans having no more than two children In 2010 he stated that China s one child policy should be implemented 76 Turner Enterprises Turner Building Solar Array Turner Enterprises Inc TEI is a private American company that was founded in 1976 and manages the business interests land holdings and investments of Ted Turner 77 including the oversight of Turner s 24 properties across the U S and Argentina At two million acres of personal and ranch land Turner is the second largest landowner in North America 78 He owned 19 ranches 16 in the western U S and three in Argentina 78 In January 2016 the Osage Nation bought Turner s 43 000 acre 170 km2 Bluestem Ranch in Osage County Oklahoma Turner had purchased the property in 2001 primarily to raise bison citation needed Through Turner Enterprises he owns ranches in Kansas Montana Nebraska New Mexico Oklahoma and South Dakota 79 80 Totaling 1 910 585 acres 7 731 86 km2 his land holdings across America make Turner one of the largest individual landowners in North America by acreage 80 TEI ranches are primarily used for bison ranching His bison herd of approximately 51 000 is the largest private herd in the world is present on 15 78 The company s mission statement is To manage Turner lands in an economically sustainable and ecologically sensitive manner while promoting the conservation of native species 78 Other important wildlife species on the property include whitetail deer wild turkey and bobwhite quail 81 In addition to bison ranching TEI ranches are also used for commercial fishing and hunting as well as limited sustainable timber harvesting as well as eco tourism on the New Mexico ranches 78 His biggest ranch is Vermejo Park Ranch in New Mexico At 920 square miles 2 400 km2 it is the largest privately owned contiguous tract of land in the United States 82 TEI works closely with Turner s philanthropic and charitable interests including the founding and ongoing operations of the United Nations Foundation Nuclear Threat Initiative Turner Foundation 83 Planet Foundation 84 and the Turner Endangered Species Fund 77 Turner Enterprises is headquartered in the Turner Building formerly the Bona Allen Office Building in Atlanta Georgia also home to the Ted s Montana Grill restaurant chain Ted Turner Reserves 85 and Turner Renewable Energy 86 87 In 2011 Ted Turner and TEI completed construction of a 25 panel solar array in the company s parking lot which provides solar power to the Turner Building and its businesses 88 Chaired by Turner TEI s executive leadership also includes CEO amp President S Taylor Glover 89 Personal life Turner and his third wife Jane Fonda Turner has been married and divorced three times to Judy Nye 1960 1964 Jane Shirley Smith 1965 1988 and actress Jane Fonda 1991 2001 He has five children 90 In a television interview with Piers Morgan on May 3 2012 Turner said he had four girlfriends which he acknowledged was complicated but nonetheless easier than being married 91 One of Turner s children Robert Edward Teddy Turner IV announced on January 23 2013 that he intended to run in the South Carolina Republican primary for the open Congressional seat vacated by Tim Scott who was appointed to the US Senate 92 Turner s son came in 4th receiving 7 90 of the vote 93 In 2010 Turner joined Warren Buffett s and Bill Gates s The Giving Pledge vowing to donate the majority of his fortune to charity upon his death 94 Turner sponsors the public forum debate of the National Speech and Debate Association citation needed In the 1993 biography It Ain t As Easy as It Looks by Porter Bibb Turner discussed his use of lithium and struggles with mental illness The 1981 biography Lead Follow or Get Out of the Way by Christian Williams chronicles the founding of CNN 95 In 2008 Turner wrote Call Me Ted which documents his career and personal life 96 In an interview on CBS Sunday Morning in 2018 Turner revealed he is suffering from Lewy body dementia 97 SailingTed TurnerSailing careerClub Savannah Yacht ClubCollege team Brown UniversityMedal record SailingRepresenting United StatesWorld Championships 1971 Seawanhaka 5 5m 1970 Sydney 5 5m 1972 Geneva 5 5m 1976 Hanko 5 5mWhen Turner was 26 he entered sailing competitions at the Savannah Yacht Club and competed in Olympic trials in 1964 98 He first attempted to win the America s Cup in 1974 in a losing attempt at the defender s trials aboard Mariner 99 He appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated on July 4 1977 100 after being chosen to lead the 1977 America s Cup defense as skipper of the yacht Courageous 101 He had been asked to join the America s Cup defense group formed by Lee Loomis and Ted Hood That group had Courageous and planned to build another yacht Independence to be designed and sailed by Hood But Courageous proved to be the faster boat 102 On September 18 1977 he successfully defended the America s Cup defeating Australia 4 0 103 He was inducted into the America s Cup Hall of Fame in 1993 104 and the National Sailing Hall of Fame in 2011 105 In the 1979 Fastnet race in a storm that killed 15 participants he skippered the S amp S designed 106 61 footer Tenacious to a corrected time victory 107 Legacy Turner in 1999 Turner has been regarded as one of the entrepreneurs who transformed the cable industry and being referred to as Alexander the Great of broadcasting 108 While Turner has been described as a valiant liberator and cast the networks as oppressive scoundrels in content his programming fell short of inspiring His network was built on sitcom reruns old movies cartoons and Atlanta Braves games He found an audience for classics of a bygone time along with slightly down market content like professional wrestling Nonetheless he would find glorious terms even for retreads and junk claiming to be pulling America back to television s golden age I want to get it back to the principles he once said that made us good Nostalgic Manichean and boot strappy like programmer like programming 108 The cable industry boomed in the late 1970s and early 1980s as nearly a dozen cable networks launched based on the Turner model They include much of what we now consider the staples of cable TV including ESPN MTV Bravo Showtime BET the Discovery Channel and the Weather Channel Those are the better known channels only by virtue of having survived others such as ARTS CBS Cable and the Satellite News Channel folded or were acquired by other companies 108 Bob Hope who is co owner and president of Hope Beckham an independent agency based in Atlanta that previously worked for Turner in his networks has described that Ted Turner was special His vision and his determination and his unwillingness to quit were infectious He was willing to start small and had the persistence and patience to make his ideas grow 109 Hope also further reiterated that In some ways he was outrageous but in most ways he was remarkable He had great passion for doing what was right for the world He stated his dream of using communication to bring peace to tell both sides of any story that one man s terrorist is another man s freedom fighter If he could get people to understand each other there would be no wars His vision was bold and infectious His Goodwill Games his creation of the UN Foundation and his approach to news on the original CNN were passions for peace 109 Professional wrestling promoter and former Senior Vice President of WCW second in charge after Turner Eric Bischoff praised Turner claiming He was an inspirational leader he was a risk taker he appreciated people who took risks he was not afraid of failure while most people are Ted was not afraid to fail he was more afraid of not trying and not conquering that next horizon 110 On June 24 1999 Vince McMahon stated on Late Night with Conan O Brien All I ll say about Ted is he s a son of a bitch other than that he s probably not a bad guy but I don t like him at all 111 Later in 2021 when asked about the upstart AEW in comparison to Turner s WCW McMahon dismissed AEW stating that it certainly is not a situation where rising tides because that was when Ted Turner was coming after us with all of Time Warner s assets as well 112 In 2010 Turner was named a Georgia Trustee an honor given by the Georgia Historical Society in conjunction with the Governor of Georgia to individuals whose accomplishments and 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Improbable Empire by Ken Auletta W W Norton 2004 ISBN 0 393 05168 4 Clash of the Titans How the Unbridled Ambition of Ted Turner and Rupert Murdoch Has Created Global Empires that Control What We Read and Watch Each Day by Richard Hack New Millennium Press 2003 ISBN 1 893224 60 0 Me and Ted Against the World The Unauthorized Story of the Founding of CNN by Reese Schonfeld HarperBusiness 2001 0060197463 Ted Turner Speaks Insights from the World s Greatest Maverick by Janet Lowe Wiley 1999 ISBN 0 471 34563 6 Riding A White Horse Ted Turner s Goodwill Games and Other Crusades by Althea Carlson Episcopal Press 1998 ISBN 0 9663743 0 4 Porter Bibb 1996 Ted Turner It Ain t As Easy as It Looks The Amazing Story of CNN Virgin Books ISBN 0 86369 892 1 Citizen Turner The Wild Rise of an American Tycoon by Robert Goldberg and Gerald Jay Goldberg Harcourt 1995 ISBN 0 15 118008 3 CNN The Inside Story How a Band of Mavericks Changed the Face of Television News by Hank Whittemore Little Brown amp Co 1990 ISBN 0 316 93761 4 Lead Follow or Get Out of the Way The Story of Ted Turner by Christian Williams Times Books 1981 ISBN 0 8129 1004 4 Atlanta Rising The Invention of an International City 1946 1996 by Frederick Allen Longstreet Press 1996 ISBN 1 56352 296 9External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ted Turner Wikiquote has quotations related to Ted Turner Baseball portal Biography portal Business and economics portal Film portal Georgia U S state portal Sports portal Television portal United States portalOfficial website Robert Edward Ted Turner Biography and Interview on American Academy of Achievement Ted Turner collected news and commentary at The New York Times Works by or about Ted Turner in libraries WorldCat catalog Appearances on C SPAN Ted Turner at IMDb Ted Turner at The Interviews An Oral History of Television Turner on Oprah Master Class aired January 29 2012 Archived September 1 2013 at the Wayback Machine Ted Turner managerial career statistics at 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