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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, [85] including the oversight of Turner's 24 properties across the United States and Argentina.
Turner Broadcasting System traces its roots to a billboard company in Savannah, Georgia, purchased by Robert Edward Turner II in the late 1940s. [10] Turner grew the business, which later became known as Turner Advertising Company. [10] Robert Edward Turner's son, Ted Turner, inherited the company when the elder Turner died in 1963. [10]
Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news organization operating, most notably, a website and a TV channel headquartered in Atlanta.Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), [2] CNN was the first television channel to provide 24 ...
Three and a half years before CNN's launch, in December 1976, Ted Turner [1] turned his Atlanta, Georgia independent station WTCG into one of the original satellite-distributed television channels, leasing a transponder on RCA's Satcom 1 geostationary satellite.
Station owner Ted Turner used satellite broadcasting to greatly enlarge his station's broadcast footprint. Turner's WTCG became " WTBS - your SuperStation" and the station was suddenly available on hundreds of cable channels across America, providing content 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Ted Turner, the 86-year-old media mogul and philanthropist who founded CNN, is recovering from pneumonia and “is doing well in rehab,” a spokesperson said Monday.
On October 6, 1987, Ted Turner announced the launch of Turner Network Television (TNT)—his fifth basic cable network venture, following SuperStation TBS, CNN, Headline News (now HLN) and the short-lived Cable Music Channel—in a keynote address at the opening day of the Atlantic Cable Show in Atlantic City, New Jersey, stating that the ...
Rupert Murdoch and Ted Turner (founder and former owner of CNN) are long-standing rivals. [122] In late 2003, Murdoch acquired a 34% stake in Hughes Electronics, the operator of the largest American satellite TV system, DirecTV, from General Motors for $6 billion (USD). [41] His Fox movie studio had global hits with Titanic and Avatar. [123]