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Ted Turner Honored By WarnerMedia

WarnerMedia has established a scholarship, internship program and exhibition hall at the University of Georgia to be named after maverick media mogul Ted Turner. The company has gifted $550,000 to the university to create the Ted Turner Scholarship...

Ted Turner Featured in CNN Environmental Doc

Is Ted Turner the real Captain Planet? Best known as the media mogul who founded CNN, Ted Turner is also a conservationist, dedicated to restoring native wildlife in the United States. https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/27/world/ted-turner-captain-planet-intl/index.html...

Here’s Who Owns the Most Land in America

BLOOMBERG Here’s Who Owns the Most Land in America The 100 largest private landowners in the U.S. own 40 million acres—an area the size of Florida. September 6, 2019 By Dave Merrill, Devon Pendleton, Sophie Alexander, Jeremy C.F....

25 Years of Turner Classic Movies

Ted Turner's love of classic movies brought us 25 years of TCM By Chloe Melas, CNN (CNN)It's been 25 years since Ted Turner founded Turner Classic Movies (TCM), something the media titan considers one of his greatest accomplishments. "It's hard to believe it's...

Ted Turner Earns Top Philanthropy Score

For the first time, Forbes 400 members are ranked not just on their total wealth and on how self-made they are, but also on their generosity. Members of this elite club have been scored on a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being the most philanthropic. List members...

Ted Turner: Never a quitter

Any list of the legends of American business would have to include the name Ted Turner.  Bold and frequently controversial, Turner was very much a disrupter in his prime. But time and age have put him in a reflective mood, as Senior Contributor Ted Koppel found,...