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Title: Ted%20Turner%20and%20Time%20Warner


1
Ted Turnerand Time Warner
  • Erick R. Schmidt
  • May 2, 2007

2
Edward Ted Turner
  • Mouth of the South or an American Maverick?

3
Both, actually
  • Beginnings in advertising
  • Fathers suicide puts young Ted in charge
  • World-class yachtsman
  • First-class bigmouth

4
An era of media dominance
  • Buys Atlanta Braves
  • Creates WTBS Superstation
  • Starts re-invention of TV news with founding of
    CNN


5
Ted Goes Global
  • Desert Storm
  • makes CNN famous
  • CNN makes
  • Desert Storm famous

6
The New Face of News
  • Round-the-clock news
  • Wanted to be everywhere -- and he was
  • Ted in the Big Three?

7
Time Warner
  • A tough competitor
  • Settling for second best?
  • Ted gives up and gives in

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

9
Teds spirit nearly broken
  • Massive layoffs
  • Firing family
  • Ted fades away

10
What does it all mean?
  • Ted the philanthropist
  • Turner Broadcasting trails tough to find
  • A new horizon for media

11
Todays Turner
  • I have nothing left to say.

12
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
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