Ted Turner

TBS Ordered To Pay $281M Over Atlanta Sports Sale: "This Jury Proved It Was Not The World According To Turner"

Bloomberg | Jeff Feeley and David Beasley | Posted 12.10.2008 | Media

Read More: David McDavid, Time Warner, Tbs, Atlanta Thrashers, Atlantha Hawks, Ted Turner, Media News

Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- A Time Warner Inc. unit must pay $281 million in damages to a Texas businessman for reneging on an oral agreement to sell him t...

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Spelling Ted Without Ed

Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler | Posted 12.02.2008 | Media

Read More: Jane Fonda, Aol Time Warner, Time Warner, Martin Scorsese, Cnn, Woody Allen, Ted Turner, The Goodwill Games, Tnt, Willaim Faulkner, Arthur Miller, Media News
Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler

For such a surprising life, Ted's memoir is exceptionally unsurprising. In Call Me Ted, he is serially and simultaneously a rebel and an establishment figure.

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Son of a Gambler's Guide to Holiday Books

Don McNay | Posted 11.27.2008 | Business

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Don McNay

It's a lesson to me, the ablers and the beggars and the thieves -The Grateful Dead If you read my book, Son of a Son of a Gambler, you'll know that...

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Ted Turner Goes To Town On Time Warner

Portfolio | Jeff Bercovici | Posted 11.12.2008 | Media

Read More: Call Me Ted, Time Warner, Ted Turner, Media News

Interviewed this morning at the Time/Life Building by Time magazine's Josh Tyrangiel, the swashbuckling CNN founder took every opportunity to bash his...

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Ted Turner Talks Marriage To Jane Fonda, Denies Her Faith Caused Split

AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 11.07.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Jane Fonda, Ted Turner, Ted Turner Book, Books, Call Me Ted, Entertainment News

NEW YORK — It wasn't religion that broke up his marriage to Jane Fonda, Ted Turner declares in a new memoir. He says he was "upset" when he dis...

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Practicing Paper Tigerism: Threatening to Boycott Russia's 2014 Sochi Olympics

Monroe Price | Posted 08.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jimmy Carter, Robert Gates, Mia Farrow, Georgia, Sochi, Boycott, Russia, Mikheil Saakashvili, Vladamir Putin, Peter Ueberroth, Ted Turner, Olympics, Movies, Politics News
Monroe Price

The lights are about to go out on Beijing 2008, and -- guess what -- there's already talk of a Georgia-related U.S.-organized boycott of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games.

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My Conversation with Ted Turner

Charlie Rose | Posted 04.02.2008 | Business

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Charlie Rose

2008-04-03-rose_turner.jpg Ted Turner created the UN Foundation 10 years ago with a historic $1 billion gift to support U.N. causes and activities. Here is part of our conversation.

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Ted Turner Joins Christian Groups To Fight Malaria

Reuters | Posted 04.02.2008 | Business

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Media mogul Ted Turner, who once called Christianity a "religion for losers," announced on Tuesday he was joining forces with two Christian organizati...

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Turner "Almost Done" Buying Up Ranchland

Omaha World Herald | PAUL HAMMEL | Posted 02.08.2008 | Business

Read More: Ted's Nebraska Grill, Billionaires, Cnn, Turner Ranchland, Mouth of the South, Philanthropists, Nebraska, Ted Turner, Business News

The "Mouth of the South" might be mellowing, at least in terms of his appetite for ranchland in Nebraska. CNN founder Ted Turner, the largest private...

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Interview Showdown: Ted Turner 1, Publicist 0

Huffington Post | Michelle Kung | Posted 09.20.2007 | Media

Read More: GQ 50th Anniversary, Gq, Wil Hylton, Ted Turner, Media News

Nobody tells Ted Turner to shush, and that goes double for his publicist. While being interviewed by Wil Hylton for GQ's 50th anniversary issue, the m...

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Interview Showdown: Ted Turner 1, Publicist 0

Huffington Post | Michelle Kung | Posted 09.20.2007 | Media

Read More: Ted Turner, Gq, Media News

Nobody tells Ted Turner to shush, and that goes double for his publicist. While being interviewed by Wil Hylton for GQ's 50th anniversary issue, the ...

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