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Robert Edward Turner III (born November 19, 1938) is an American entrepreneur, television producer, media proprietor, and philanthropist. He founded the Cable News Network (CNN), the first 24-hour cable news channel. In addition, he founded WTBS, which pioneered the superstation concept in cable television, which later became TBS .
10 de jun. de 2023 · Media Mogul & Philanthropist. Date of Birth. November 19, 1938. Ted Turner as a teenage cadet at the McCallie School. Robert Edward Turner III was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. From an early age, he was called Ted, while his father, Robert Edward Turner, Jr., was known as Ed.
Born before the Civil War on October 15, 1856 on a farm in Portsmouth in the Southern state of Virginia, Robert Turner came into the world as the child of an enslaved woman. His mother, Emily Wilson, was legally owned by Margaret Edwards Grice, the wife of the mayor of Portsmouth and later Confederate Major George Washington Grice.
Robert Edward Turner III (Cincinnati, Ohio; 19 de noviembre de 1938) [1] es un empresario, inversionista, terrateniente, directivo empresarial y magnate estadounidense de los medios, conocido también por ser el fundador de la cadena internacional de noticias CNN y varios canales de televisión, entre otras empresas periodísticas y comerciales.
Robert Turner passed away at the age of 52 on June 15, 1909. The Oakland Tribune ran Robert’s obituary on the front page of its Sunday edition, getting some of the facts of his life correct, with the exception of his birth date: `Abdu’l-Bahá wrote a tablet to Ali Kuli Khan in Robert’s honor after his passing: He was in truth most devoted.
2 de abr. de 2014 · Ted Turner was born Robert Edward Turner III in Cincinnati, Ohio, on November 19, 1938. He is the eldest child of parents Robert Edward (Ed) Turner Jr. and Florence (Rooney) Turner. Turner's...
11 de abr. de 2024 · Ted Turner (born November 19, 1938, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.) is an American broadcasting entrepreneur, philanthropist, sportsman, and environmentalist who founded a media empire that included several television channels that he created, notably CNN. (Read Ted Turner’s Britannica entry on the U.N. Foundation.) Early life.
