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Here’s a take a look at philanthropist and environmentalist Ted Turner, founding father of NCS and Turner Broadcasting System (TBS).
Birth date: November 19, 1938
Birth place: Cincinnati, Ohio
Birth title: Robert Edward Turner III
Father: Robert Edward Turner
Mother: Florence (Rooney) Turner
Marriages: Jane Fonda (1991-2001, divorced); Jane (Smith) Turner (1964-1987, divorced. Some sources have 1988 for the divorce.); Judy (Nye) Turner (1960-early Sixties, divorced).
Children: with Jane (Smith) Turner: Beau, Rhett, Jennie; with Judy (Nye) Turner: Laura Lee and Robert Edward IV
Education: Attended Brown University, 1957-1960
Military: US Coast Guard
Won the America’s Cup with the yacht “Courageous” in 1977.
Has obtained two honorary Emmy Awards.
Nicknames: Mouth of the South, Terrible Ted, Captain Outrageous.
Claims his secret to success is “Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell and advertise.”
One of the largest landowners in the United States.
Former proprietor of the Atlanta Braves and the Atlanta Hawks.
March 1963 – Takes over the household’s enterprise, Turner Advertising Co., following his father’s suicide.
1970 – After turning the household enterprise round and renaming it the Turner Communications Group, Turner purchases two impartial UHF stations, in Atlanta and Charlotte, North Carolina, and names them WTCG and WRET, after his firm and himself.
1976 – TBS turns into the nation’s first “superstation” utilizing satellite tv for pc expertise to hold its sign nationwide.
June 1, 1980 – Launches NCS, the primary 24-hour all-news cable community.
January 1, 1982 – NCS Headline News begins broadcasting.
August 1985 – Acquires MGM-UA Entertainment, together with its library of 1000’s of traditional movies.
September 1985 – NCSI is first launched.
1986 – Creates the Goodwill Games. They are held 5 instances, till 2000.
October 3, 1988 – TNT is launched.
1990 – Establishes the Turner Foundation with a imaginative and prescient towards the preservation and conservation of the atmosphere all through the world.
1991 – Time Magazine names Turner “Man of the Year.”
August 30, 1992 – Receives the Governor’s Award on the forty fourth Primetime Emmy Awards.
October 1, 1992 – The Cartoon Network goes on the air for the primary time.
October 3, 1992 – Is inducted into the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame.
April 1994 – Launch of Turner Classic Movies (TCM).
October 1996 – Sells Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. to Time Warner, Inc., for $7.34 billion; turns into vice chairman.
1996-2001 – Member of the Time Warner Board of Directors.
1996 – Buys the 578,000 acre Vermejo Park Ranch in New Mexico that stretches into Colorado. The ranch reportedly is without doubt one of the largest privately owned ranches within the nation.
1997 – Pledges $1 billion to the United Nations to be paid out in increments over the following 10 years.
March 17, 1997 – NCS en Español is launched.
1999 – “Ted Turner Speaks: Insights from the World’s Greatest Maverick,” is revealed, co-written with Janet Lowe.
January 2001 – Establishes the Nuclear Threat Initiative with former Senator Sam Nunn.
January 11, 2001 – The AOL and Time Warner, Inc., merger is accomplished.
2001-2003 – Vice Chairman of AOL Time Warner, Inc.
2001-2006 – Member of the AOL Time Warner Inc., Board of Directors.
2002 – Launches the restaurant chain Ted’s Montana Grill with enterprise associate George McKerrow Jr.
November 30, 2004 – In recognition of the 24 years Turner owned the NBA workforce, the Atlanta Hawks retire a quantity 17 jersey to honor him.
February 24, 2006 – Announces he is not going to search reelection to the board of Time Warner. He receives a standing ovation on his final day, May 19.
January 10, 2007 – Partners with New Jersey-based Dome Tech Solar to create DT Solar, a renewable power firm specializing in solar energy. The firm is later renamed Turner Renewable Energy (TRE).
November 10, 2008 – His autobiography, “Call Me Ted,” is revealed.
August 2010 – Is named amongst 40 billionaires pledging half or extra of their fortune to charity by “The Giving Pledge” campaign.
2015 – Turner makes his remaining cost to the United Nations and fulfills the $1 billion pledge he made in 1997.
August 23, 2016 – Turner formally transfers (after promoting) possession of his 43,000-acre property, Bluestem Ranch in Oklahoma, to the Osage Nation led by Principal Chief Geoffrey Standing Bear. Turner writes a letter to the tribe stating, “I know that I am leaving Bluestem in the right hands, and I am grateful for the relationship we’ve been able to build with the Osage Nation.”
September 30, 2018 – Turner reveals that he has Lewy physique dementia in an interview for “CBS Sunday Morning.”
April 11, 2019 – Turner is honored on the opening night of the TCM Classic Film Festival.
July 1, 2021 – Launches the Turner Institute of Ecoagriculture, Inc, a public charity and agricultural analysis group. Turner additionally broadcasts that he’s turning over the almost 80,000 acre McGinley Ranch to the nonprofit.
March 2022 – Armendaris Ranch, owned by Turner, is permanently protected land after an settlement is made between the federal authorities and the New Mexico Land Conservancy. The 315,000 acres ranch homes some 500 vertebrate species, roughly 230 desert bighorn sheep and near 1,000,000 bats. The deal can be one of many largest conservation easements within the nation.
November 13, 2024 – The six-part docuseries “Call Me Ted” debuts on Max.
January 6, 2025 – A spokesperson says Turner is recovering from pneumonia and “is doing well in rehab.”