Ted Turner

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We all start someplace and for Robert Edward Turner III it started in Cincinnati, Ohio at the McCallie School. He was a National Forensics League member. (NFL) It was at this school he won the Tennessee debate championship. Robert Edward Turner was also call and what he is known as today as Ted Turner. His dad, Robert Turner II also known as Ed Turner, bought a billboard company he changed the name to Turner Advertising. Ted learned every aspect of the outdoor advertising business at his father’s insistence. He learned from maintenance to finance, but not all he did was work sailed his dinghy that his father gave him. “At age nine, he began sailing and soon developed a passion for sailboat racing. By age 11, he was competing in the junior regatta of the Savannah Yacht Club.” (Achievement). Ted’s father wanted him to attend Harvard, but his grades weren’t high enough for him to get in so Ted attended Brown University. After school, he returned home to his father’s business where his father gave him the assistant manager of Turner Advertising’s Atlanta branch position. Ted inherited the business at 24 when his father took his own life after the business took a turn for the worse and went into debt. By the end of the decade Ted had turned the business around into the largest billboard company in the southeast. (Achievement).
Ted began to realize that the majority of the business was in radio and television. He began by buying radio stations and bought a failing broadcasting station that was in Atlanta. He also bought a second in North Carolina. “Both stations were hemorrhaging money, but Turner moved boldly ahead. He began buying old movies, and TV shows, securing the broadcast rights outright, so he could show them over and over wit...

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...FL member and it helped him on his way to greatness. Becoming a member of the team, the family, is the first stepping stone to success.

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Achievement, Academy of. Ted Turner Biography. n.d. .
Burke, Bill. Meet Ted. 2008. .
Edwards, Richard E. Competitive debate: The Official Guide. Indianapolis: Penguin Group, 2008. book.
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Kristof, Nicholas D. How Giving Became Cool. 26 December 2012. 18 December 2013. .
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