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Robert Edward "Ted" Turner III (born November 19, 1938) is an American media mogul and philanthropist. As a businessman, he is known as founder of the Cable News Network more popularly known as CNN, the first 24-hour cable news channel. In addition, he founded WTBS, which pioneered the superstation concept in cable television.
As a philanthropist, he is known for his $1 billion gift to support the United Nations, which created the United Nations Foundation, a public charity to broaden domestic support for the UN. Turner serves as Chairman of the United Nations Foundation board of directors. Additionally, in 2001, Turner co-founded the Nuclear Threat Initiative with U.S. Senator Sam Nunn (D-GA). NTI is a non-partisan organisation dedicated to reducing global reliance on, and preventing the proliferation of, nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. He currently serves as Co-Chairman on the Board of Directors.
Turner's media empire began with his father's billboard business, Turner Outdoor Advertising, which he took over in 1963 after his father's suicide. It was worth $1 million at the time (roughly $7.73 million in present-day terms). His purchase of an Atlanta UHF station in 1970 began the Turner Broadcasting System. Cable News Network revolutionized news media, covering the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986 and the Persian Gulf War in 1991. Turner turned the Atlanta Braves baseball team into a nationally popular franchise and launched the charitable Goodwill Games. He helped revive interest in professional wrestling by buying World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and starting the Monday Night Wars in 1995, airing Monday Nitro on his TNT head-to-head against the World Wrestling Federation's Monday Night RAW on USA.
Carl Edward Sagan (/ˈseɪɡən/; November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, science popularizer, and science communicator in astronomy and other natural sciences. His contributions were central to the discovery of the high surface temperatures of Venus. However, he is best known for his contributions to the scientific research of extraterrestrial life, including experimental demonstration of the production of amino acids from basic chemicals by radiation. Sagan assembled the first physical messages that were sent into space: the Pioneer plaque and the Voyager Golden Record, universal messages that could potentially be understood by any extraterrestrial intelligence that might find them.
He published more than 600 scientific papers and articles and was author, co-author or editor of more than 20 books. Sagan wrote many popular science books, such as The Dragons of Eden, Broca's Brain and Pale Blue Dot, and narrated and co-wrote the award-winning 1980 television series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage. The most widely watched series in the history of American public television, Cosmos has been seen by at least 500 million people across 60 different countries. The book Cosmos was published to accompany the series. He also wrote the science fiction novel Contact, the basis for a 1997 film of the same name. His papers, containing 595,000 items, are archived at The Library of Congress.
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Oprah Gail Winfrey, born January 29, 1954, is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist. She is best known for her talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show, which was the highest-rated program of its kind in history and was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2011. Dubbed the "Queen of All Media", she has been ranked the richest African-American of the 20th century, the greatest black philanthropist in American history, and is now North America's first and only multi-billionaire Black. Several assessments regard her as the most influential woman in the world. In 2013, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama and honorary doctorate degrees from Duke and Harvard.
Winfrey was born into poverty in rural Mississippi to a teenage single mother and later raised in an inner-city Milwaukee neighborhood. She has stated that she was molested during her childhood and early teens and became pregnant at 14; her son died in infancy. Sent to live with the man she calls her father, a barber in Tennessee, Winfrey landed a job in radio while still in high school and began co-anchoring the local evening news at the age of 19. Her emotional ad-lib delivery eventually got her transferred to the daytime-talk-show arena, and after boosting a third-rated local Chicago talk show to first place, she launched her own production company and became internationally syndicated.
Master Class is a play by Terrence McNally, with incidental music by Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini, and Vincenzo Bellini. The play opened on Broadway in 1995, with stars Zoe Caldwell and Audra McDonald winning Tony Awards.
The opera diva Maria Callas, a glamorous, commanding, larger-than-life, caustic, and surprisingly drop-dead funny pedagogue is holding a voice master class at the Juilliard School. Alternately dismayed and impressed by the students who parade before her, she retreats into recollections about the glories of her own life and career. Included in her musings are her younger years as an ugly duckling, her fierce hatred of her rivals, the unforgiving press that savaged her early performances, her triumphs at La Scala, and her affair with Aristotle Onassis. It culminates in a monologue about sacrifice taken in the name of art.
The play originally was staged by the Philadelphia Theatre Company in March 1995, the Mark Taper Forum and the Kennedy Center.
Actors: William S. Taylor (actor), Kenneth Welsh (actor), Paul Sorvino (actor), Dean McDermott (actor), James Kidnie (actor), Isaiah Washington (actor), Gailard Sartain (actor), Andrew Jackson (actor), Aidan Devine (actor), Robert Loggia (actor), Barry Flatman (actor), Eugene Clark (actor), Matt Birman (actor), John Welsman (composer), Barbara Williams (actress),
Plot: Joe Torre after failing to win a championship when he was a professional baseball player and as Manager to three teams is named Manager of the Yankees. And he finds himself having players like Dwight Gooden, Wade Boggs and Daryl Strawberry who are considered has beens. And players like David Cone who are ill. But nevertheless thinks he can win with them. At the same he deals with the loss of one brother and another brother battling the same condition that killed his brother.
Keywords: baseball, new-york-yankees, pitcherActors: Straw Weisman (writer), Straw Weisman (producer), William Sanderson (actor), Daniel Faraldo (actor), Reggie Rock Bythewood (actor), William Mishkin (producer), Robert Whelan (actor), Nick Hardin (actor), Billy Longo (actor), Richard Endelson (producer), Janet Merwin (miscellaneous crew), Philip Schaefer (miscellaneous crew), Robert A. Endelson (producer), Robert A. Endelson (editor), Peter Yoshida (actor),
Plot: This video is mostly taken up by talking about vengeance rather than getting on with the job. A mean trashy exploitation picture about three convicts who escape from jail and hole up at the house of a black minister. There's a few nasty scene's where the ministers family are being repeatedly terrorised by the thugs. In the end the minister turns the tables on the 3 convicts and gives them their just desserts.
Keywords: abuse, african-american, african-american-man, anger, armored-truck, assault, atrocity, bare-breasts, beaten-to-death, beatingCNN founder Ted Turner talks to Fortune's Pattie Sellers about his regrets from how the AOL Time Warner merger occurred. Watch for the full interview on Fortune.com on 11/19.
Ted Turner wants less people on this world. He pushes the global warming scam. CNN Founder Ted Turner Supports Population Reduction To 2 Billion WeAreChange https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMgamzziQMM
In business, Ted Turner has had much success as well as his share of failure. Watch as he describes his most exciting accomplishment (CNN) and what he calls one of the worst mistakes ever made in business (the AOL-Time Warner merger). Ted describes the year he lost 80 percent of his fortune, lost his job, ended his marriage to Jane Fonda and lost a grandchild... and why he vowed to make a comeback. For more on #masterclass, visit http://bit.ly/1ZQfeZO Find OWN on TV at http://www.oprah.com/FindOWN SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/1vqD1PN About Oprah’s Master Class: The acclaimed, Emmy-nominated series “Oprah's Master Class” tells the stories you've never heard from the people you thought you knew best. Hand-picked by Oprah Winfrey for their unique impact on the world, true modern masters from ...
Eric Bischoff shoot interview on WCW owner Ted Turner losing $8 billion due to the AOL Time Warner merger with Turner broadcasting
The Center on Communication Leadership, in partnership with USC Spectrum and the USC Marshall School of Business present a conversation with Ted Turner, the media entrepreneur and philanthropist who started CNN, Turner Broadcasting and a host of other companies. Welcoming remarks by Marshall School Dean Jim Ellis. The conversation will be moderated by University Professor Geoffrey Cowan.
During an appearance on Piers Morgan Tonight, Ted Turner said he thinks it's "good" that U.S. soldiers are killing themselves because it shows humanity has evolved a distaste for war. Some have argued that Turner is expressing his satisfaction at U.S. troops killing themselves because it indicates that humanity is starting to spiritually evolve an aversion to war. However, Turner has repeatedly voiced his wish to see billions of people wiped off the planet via population reduction programs. If you think Ted Turner wants to save people from dying by ending war, then why does he also advocate the elimination of 95 per cent of the world's population as well as China's brutal one child policy? See more: http://www.infowars.com/ted-turner-i-think-its-good-u-s-troops-are-killing-themselves...
CNN founder Ted Turner talks about things he's lost in his life, including his fortune, his job, and Jane Fonda
In this classic interview from 1989, Dr. Carl Sagan, possibly the greatest populariser of fundamental science in modern history, has a conversation with CNN founder and environmental philanthropist Ted Turner. Ted Turner, like many others, acknowledged Carl Sagan's message about the importance of scientific reason about difficult matters such as environmental destruction and the threat of nuclear war early on and is responsible, in part, in drawing attention to the issue of environmental destruction to the masses. Turner undoubtedly monopolised the cable television sector making CNN one of the most powerful forms of mass media on earth. Fully aware that his financial gain was the direct result of the high technology of the time, Turner had responsibility to interview one of the leading ...
INTERVIEW OF THE DAY - Ted Turner - Sports & Business, A Combustible Mix. Sportaccord Denver 2009
Ted Turner discusses his $1 billion donation to United Nations programs, economics and the enviornment. SUBSCRIBE to get the latest from Charlie Rose: http://bit.ly/CharlieRoseSUBSCRIBE Connect with Charlie Rose Online: Visit the Charlie Rose WEBSITE: http://bit.ly/CharlieRoseDotCom Like Charlie Rose on FACEBOOK: http://bit.ly/CharlieRoseFacebook Follow Charlie Rose on TWITTER: http://bit.ly/CharlieRoseTwitter Follow Charlie Rose on INSTAGRAM: http://bit.ly/CharlieRoseInstagram About Charlie Rose: Emmy award winning journalist Charlie Rose has been praised as "one of America's premier interviewers." He is the host of Charlie Rose, the nightly PBS program that engages America's best thinkers, writers, politicians, athletes, entertainers, business leaders, scientists and other newsmaker...
Ted Turner - Behind the worlds most powerful name in news CNN, discusses Life, News, and the Future of Media with Mike Douglas Rare Recording
Fidel Castro Interview by Ted Turner in 1990
Ted Turner was interviewed in 1999 for the Archive of American Television. In this excerpt from his multi-hour interview, he discusses his views on the role and responsibility of the media in both news and entertainment. For the complete interview, visit emmytvlegends.org/interviews/people/ted-turner
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But it would be pretty funny if Ted Turner actually did collect chicken nuggets.
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2009 Cable Mavericks Fall Lecture: Ted Turner at The Cable Center in Denver, Colorado.
Ted Turner, founder of TBS and CNN, former owner of Atlanta Braves and Philanthropist receives the Citadel of Free Speech Award.
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