TURNER, Ted [*1938-?] -- American media mogul, philanthropist

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né TURNER, Robert Edward III

In a move he hoped would encourage philanthropy in other wealthy individuals, media mogul Ted Turner announced plans to donate $1 billion to the United Nations for humanitarian programs.

Chronology

1976	Purchase of Atlanta Braves baseball team
1977	Skippered Courageous to America's Cup win
1979	WTBS, cable's first "super station"
1980	CNN launched, cable's first 24-hour news format
1980	Loses America's cup
1985	Turner conceives the Goodwill Games, a quadrennial multi-sport international competition, in partnership with the former USSR.
1991	Time Man of Year
1997	Turner pledges $1 billion in unprecedented philanthropic gift. US is $1.5 billion in arrears.

Bookmarks (off-site links)

Works by Ted+Turner
- Analyses, critiques and interpretations
- Quotations, interviews
  - Ted Turner: Billionaire, Media Mogul...and Environmentalist Interviewed by Tracey C. Rembert
  - FAMOUSIDIOT.COM :: The Art of Confusing Fame with Wisdom A problem his wife (Jane Fonda) also had in the '70s.
  - Ted Turner Quotes - The Quotations Page
- For sale
  - BookFinder.com Books by or about Ted+Turner
- Turner.com Turner Broadcasting System, Inc (TBS)
- Ted Turner Pictures and TT Documentaries
Works about
- Biographical
  - Specific periods, events, aspects. Trivia.
    - TIME Person of the Year: Story Archive Since 1927, Ted Turner
    - Fortune.com - Intro - Gone With the Wind Ted Turner is a worried man. His media career is gone with the wind. His faith in the United Nations looks naive. He thinks humanity's on the verge of extinction, and he's down to his last billion.
    - Ted Turner | BaseballLibrary.com
    - Wired News: Ted Turner Laments Cable Mergers
  - Chronologies, synopses, encyclopedias
    - Wikipedia Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia that is being written collaboratively by the readers. The site is a WikiWiki, meaning that anyone, you included, can edit any article right now by clicking on the edit this page link that appears in every Wikipedia article except for a few protected pages.
    - Ted Turner
    - Ted Turner: A Who2 Profile
  - Ted Turner Bio
  - Turner, Ted
  - Ted Turner Page
- Genealogy
- Memorials, tributes, shrines
  - Suites
  - Turner Foundation, Inc.
- Bibliographies and Link Farms
  - Open Directory The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human- edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors.
  - Search engines A selection of search engines, for Ted+Turner
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    - Lycos
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    - Yahoo!
  - Ted Turner Files
- Discussion, interviews
Collections, archives - Papers
Historical context, background
- Places (residences, etc)
Gallery
- The Internet Movie Database (IMDb). As a character.
- The Internet Movie Database (IMDb). As a participant: actor, director, etc.
- Google Images Search

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TURNER, Ted [*1938-?] -- American media mogul, philanthropist

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