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Ted Turner
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American media mogul
Ted Turner is an American media mogul who built a massive business empire by founding and developing major television networks and media properties. His ventures, particularly CNN, fundamentally changed how news is delivered globally and shaped modern media and broadcasting as we know it today.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1938
- Died
- 2026
- Works
- 10
Top works
- On the Water
- The racing edge
- Call me Ted
- Captain Planet and the Planeteers
- James MacTaggart memorial lecture
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Film & TV
Acting
Known for
- Population Boom — Self2013
- Global Eugenics: Using Medicine to Kill — Himself2010
- The Race to Save 100 Years — Self1997
- Arli$$ — Ted Turner1996
- E! True Hollywood Story1996
- 60 Minutes — Self1968
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Switzerland
- Active from
- 1938
- Active to
- 2026
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 117
- Total plays
- 500
Born David Turner, known as Dave ' Ted ' Turner founder member of the 70's band Wishbone Ash. Now living in Arizona. Released his first solo album in 2010. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Ted+Turner">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Homeostasis model assessment: insulin resistance and ?-cell function from fasting plasma glucose and insulin concentrations in man
· 1985 · cited 26,228x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,391x
- ROBINS-I: a tool for assessing risk of bias in non-randomised studies of interventions
· 2016 · cited 14,669x
- The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship
· 2016 · cited 13,878x
- Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis
· 2022 · cited 13,147x
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Quotes
- “Our future is in our hands. We do have global communications, and we know what's going on all over the world, and we know what's right, and we know what's wrong. The question is, are we going to do something about it?”
- “If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.”
- “Climate change is one of the world’s most serious problems – but moving to a cleaner energy future is also one of the world’s greatest business opportunities. Given the scale of the challenge – and the opportunity – we must act now to tackle climate change. … While the problem can sometimes seem overwhelming, we can turn things around – but we must move beyond climate talk to climate action.”
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Official website
Home - Turner Enterprises
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Key dates
- Died
- 6 May 2026
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Wikidata facts
- Place of death
- Lamont
- Religion
- Anglicanism
- Field of work
- philanthropy
- Official website
- tedturner.com
- Image
- Ted Turner at the LBJ Foundation.jpg
- Number of children
- 5
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- Ted Turner
- date of birth
- 1938-11-19
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- birth name
- Conner Maggy
- name in native language
- Mason Berg
- date of death
- 2026-05-06
- cause of death
- dementia with Lewy bodies
- manner of death
- natural causes
- winner
- Fastnet Race
- ethnic group
- White Americans
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Robert Edward Turner III (November 19, 1938 – May 6, 2026) was an American businessman, television producer, media proprietor, and philanthropist. He founded CNN, the first 24-hour cable news channel, and WTBS, which pioneered the superstation concept in cable television. Turner also founded the television networks TNT, TBS, Cartoon Network, and Turner Classic Movies.
Turner began his media empire in March 1963 when he took over his father's billboard business—Turner Outdoor Advertising, then worth $1 million—after his father's suicide at the age of 53. His purchase of an Atlanta UHF station in 1970 began the Turner Broadcasting System. In 1980, he founded CNN, one of the most prominent news networks in the world. Turner owned the Atlanta Braves baseball team, which won the 1995 World Series. He turned the team into a nationally popular franchise, and he launched the charitable Goodwill Games. Turner was also a passionate proponent of professional wrestling as a television product, having aired wrestling on TBS dating back to 1971, and credited wrestling with helping TBS gain a national footprint with the coming of cable television. In 1988, Turner purchased Jim Crockett Promotions, which he then rebranded as World Championship Wrestling (WCW), a promotion that would supersede the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) in popularity during the mid-1990s.