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Ted Turnerand Time Warner

• Erick R. Schmidt
• May 2, 2007

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Edward Ted Turner

• Mouth of the South or an American Maverick?

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Both, actually

• Beginnings in advertising
• Fathers suicide puts young Ted in charge
• World-class yachtsman
• First-class bigmouth

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An era of media dominance

• Buys Atlanta Braves
• Creates WTBS Superstation
• Starts re-invention of TV news with founding of
  CNN

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Ted Goes Global

• Desert Storm
• makes CNN famous
• CNN makes
• Desert Storm famous

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The New Face of News

• Round-the-clock news

• Wanted to be everywhere -- and he was

• Ted in the Big Three?

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Time Warner

• A tough competitor
• Settling for second best?
• Ted gives up and gives in

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The Merger

• 8 billion deal
• Ted gives up the reigns
• Ted becomes what he hated

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Teds spirit nearly broken

• Massive layoffs
• Firing family
• Ted fades away

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What does it all mean?

• Ted the philanthropist
• Turner Broadcasting trails tough to find
• A new horizon for media

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Todays Turner

• I have nothing left to say.

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Works Cited

• Goldberg, Robert, and Gerald Jay Goldberg.
  Citizen Turner. New York Harcourt Brace, 1995
• Lowe, Janet. Ted Turner Speaks. New York John
  Wiley Sons, 1999
• Auletta, Ken. Media Man. New York W.W. Norton,
  2004
• http//www.tedturner.com
• Vercammen, Paul. Time Warner-TBS deal widens
  entertainment vistas. Retrieved April 26, 2007
  from http//www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/Movies/9509/Time_T
  urner_Movies/index.html
• Creating a Media Titan. Retrieved April 22, 2007
  from http//news.com.com/Creatingamediatitan/20
  09-1023_3-249870.html