"I became a peacenik," Ted Turner says, because when he was running CNN and the U.S. started bombing people around the world, they were "bombing my customers."
Norman Horowitz | Posted 11.12.2009 | Entertainment
A Television writer/friend Dom Serafini recently wrote an article about "the good old days of Television Ownership." Dom is not always wrong, but he ...
Linda Milazzo | Posted 10.19.2009 | Media
If Jonathan Klein were as responsible an executive as Ted Turner, and as conscientious a citizen as Ted Turner, he would be as concerned as Ted Turner about the danger of Lou Dobbs.
bloomberg.com | Brett Pulley and Anita Sharpe | Posted 10.16.2009 | Business
Oct. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Ted Turner, the cable television pioneer who became one of the richest Americans, recalls the pain of losing his job at Time Wa...
Posted 10.15.2009 | Media
Ted Turner wants back in charge at CNN, he said in an interview set to air on Bloomberg TV Friday. "I'd like to see me running Time Warner," he told ...
Posted 10.13.2009 | Entertainment
It takes a certain amount of confidence in one's masculinity to wear a kilt, and some of these guys are pulling off the tartan look quite well. Who lo...
John Hope Bryant | Posted 10.11.2009 | Living
Why not give? Easy. Fear, and fear is the ultimate prosperity killer -- you will never go wrong, doing right. And do right long enough and it will pay dividends that builds wealth, too.
Posted 10.17.2009 | Media
Is it love for Ted Turner and Martha Stewart? Probably not, but they do look good together. The two media magnates have been together at Turner's M...
Posted 08.17.2009 | Business
The world's best CEOs are accustomed to expensive lifestyles, jaunts in private planes and perks galore. But there may be no better evidence of the la...
Julia Moulden | Posted 07.07.2009 | Living
Last week's column posed the question, "Is making a difference only for the rich?" A friend sent me a link to an article from the Guardian newspaper a...
ABC News | Posted 06.20.2009 | Business
Under a cloak of secrecy, some of the world's wealthiest people gathered in an unprecedented meeting early this month in New York City possibly to coo...
ABC News | RUSSELL GOLDMAN and EILEEN MURPHY | Posted 06.20.2009 | Business
Under a cloak of secrecy, some of the world's wealthiest people gathered in an unprecedented meeting early this month in New York City possibly to coo...
Alex Pasternack | Posted 05.01.2009 | Green
"We need stop doing dumb things and start doing smart things. To use a baseball analogy, humanity is in the seventh inning and down by two runs."
Mike Bonifer | Posted 04.10.2009 | Living
Do what makes you uneasy. Do the thing that scares you most. There, you will discover new worlds. Follow the fear. Out of it, you will grow.
Bloomberg | Jeff Feeley and David Beasley | Posted 01.10.2009 | Media
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...
Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler | Posted 01.02.2009 | Media
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.
Don McNay | Posted 12.27.2008 | Business
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...
Portfolio | Jeff Bercovici | Posted 12.13.2008 | Media
Interviewed this morning at the Time/Life Building by Time magazine's Josh Tyrangiel, the swashbuckling CNN founder took every opportunity to bash his...
AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 12.08.2008 | Entertainment
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...
Monroe Price | Posted 09.20.2008 | Politics
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.
Reuters | Posted 04.10.2008 | Business
Media mogul Ted Turner, who once called Christianity a "religion for losers," announced on Tuesday he was joining forces with two Christian organizati...
Omaha World Herald | PAUL HAMMEL | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
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...
Huffington Post | Michelle Kung | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
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...
Huffington Post | Michelle Kung | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
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 ...
Jerry Lewis | Posted 11.16.2009 | Denver