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| Inducted: |
2007 |
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U.S. |
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Telecommunications
Philanthropist |
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Turner entered the television business in 1970 when he acquired an Atlanta UHF station. In 1976, Turner purchased Major League Baseball's Atlanta Braves and launched TBS Superstation, originating the "Superstation" concept. The following year, Turner launched CNN, the world's first live, 24-hour global news network.
Over the next two decades, the company built a portfolio of unrivaled cable television news and entertainment brands and businesses, including CNN Headline News, CNN International, TNT, Cartoon Network and Turner Classic Movies.
Turner has also made his mark as an influential philanthropist. Currently, Turner is chairman of the Turner Foundation, which supports efforts for improving air and water quality, developing a sustainable energy future to protect our climate, safeguarding environmental health, maintaining wildlife habitat protection, and developing practices and policies to curb population growth rates. He co-chairs the Nuclear Threat Initiative, which works to diminish the threat from nuclear, chemical and biological weapons; and is chairman of the United Nations Foundation, which promotes a more peaceful, prosperous and just world.
Turner is the recipient of numerous honorary degrees, industry awards and civic honors, including being named Time magazine’s 1991 Man of the Year and Broadcasting and Cable’s Man of the Century in 1999.
For more information about Ted Turner, please visit www.tedturner.com. |
