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Remembering Ted Turner (1938-2026)

Ted Turner was an Atlanta icon. He founded CNN and TBS as well as other stations, owned the Atlanta Braves throughout the 80s and 90s.

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  • The great American maverick of our time releases his long-awaited memoir, revealing his lonely childhood, the devastating loss of his father, intimate details of his marriage to Jane Fonda, and his unparalled success as a businessman and…
    Book, 2008New York : Grand Central Pub., 2008. — B TURNER
  • Last Stand

    Ted Turner's Quest to Save a Troubled Planet

    Wilkinson, Todd
    Entrepreneur and media mogul Ted Turner has commanded global attention for his dramatic personality, his founding of CNN, his marriage to Jane Fonda, and his company's merger with Time Warner. But his green resume has gone largely ignored, even…
    Book, 2013Guilford, Conn. : Lyons Press, c2013. — 333.72092 WILKINSON
  • Up All Night

    Ted Turner, CNN, and the Birth of 24-hour News

    Napoli, Lisa, 1963-
    How did we get from an age of dignified nightly news broadcasts on three national networks to the age of 24-hour channels and constantly breaking news? The answer--thanks to Ted Turner and an oddball cast of cable television visionaries, big league…
    Book, 2020New York : Abrams Press, 2020. — 384.5506 NAPOLI
  • Media Man

    Ted Turner's Improbable Empire

    Auletta, Ken
    America's top media journalist on the rise and fall of the industry's most colorful titan. Ted Turner, the "mouth from the South," revolutionized television. Grasping cable's potential in its infancy, Turner parlayed a tiny UHF station in Atlanta…
    Book, 2004New York : Norton, c2004. — B TURNER
  • Clash of the Titans

    How the Unbridled Ambition of Ted Turner and Rupert Murdoch Has Created Global Empires That Control What We Read and Watch

    Hack, Richard
    Ted Turner and Rupert Murdoch are the major players in the media world today--and both have personal lives as complicated as their business dealings. This meticulously researched look at media business is also a dual biography. In great detail it…
    Book, 2003Beverly Hills, Calif. : New Millennium Press, c2003. — 920 HACK
  • Me and Ted Against the World

    the Unauthorized Story of the Founding of CNN

    Schonfeld, Reese
    They were the odd couple of broadcast news, destined to alter global communications forever -- to free-for-all of a saga that's larger than life and more engaging than a major business book has any right to be. 1979. Down in Atlanta, Ted Turner was…
    Book, 2001New York, NY : Cliff Street, c2001. — 384.5506 SCHONFELD