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Romper
April 29, 2018
I think Ted Turner owns that much in Mexico. It's certainly not out of the realm of possibility that a park this size would exist here in America. Needless to say, there are plenty of islands topping 500 square miles in the South China Sea, so while that theory sounds like the most plausible, there's still a wholeÃâà...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
April 28, 2018
Similarly, Ted Turner Expeditions noted in a post on its site that while cruises are still incredibly popular, unusual destinations, experiences and objectives are influencing how seniors travel. Adventure-based vacations are one of the fastest-growing segments in the industry, according to Ted TurnerÃâà...
Frederick News Post
April 27, 2018
A new era in news media was initiated on June 1, 1980, when Ted Turner established CNN with the objective to telecast news 24 hours a day, seven days a week. This new idea did not catch on in the beginning, and the company took a hit financially. Some called it “Chicken Noodle Network,” but Turner'sÃâà...
Montana Standard
April 26, 2018
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK — The large lumbering rumps of a small band of bison blocked the narrow two-lane highway to Mammoth Hot Springs. It was April 15, the sun was shining and the largest land mammals in North America were slowly ambling deeper into the park. +6. Bison crossing.
Daily Mining Gazette
April 26, 2018
They were created after a Michigan Technological University student died in 2002 after a fire in a fraternity building with no sprinkler systems. “There was never any attempt to describe what your neighbor would look like,” he said. He proposed the solution used by billionaire Ted Turner: “You don't like yourÃâà...
MyAJC (blog)
April 26, 2018
Speaking of street scenes, Marvel has taken a real shine to a particular stretch of asphalt along Mitchell Street near Ted Turner Drive. “Captain America: Civil War” blew up a building there (not really) and “Spider-Man: Homecoming had Tom Holland swing by (pardon the pun) prior to “Avengers: InfinityÃâà...
The Atlantic
April 16, 2018
Many Americans became fans of the Atlanta Braves not because their home was in Atlanta, but because Atlanta was in their home: The Braves were purchased by the television mogul Ted Turner in 1976 to fill hours of nightly programming for the widely carried cable network that became TBS. Whether or not traditionalistsÃâà...
The Inquisitr
April 10, 2018
The preview also shows Andy asking Marlo outright if the man she dated was Ted Turner. Marlo responds by quickly denying that she dated the media mogul. Just who is this billionaire then? In two video interviews with Bravo recently posted on BravoTV.com, Marlo revealed more about the wealthy manÃâà...
Lancaster News
April 5, 2018
South Carolina's tourism department for months kept secret from the public its plans to buy an island owned by billionaire Ted Turner for what the agency director touts will be a “premium experience” for tourists. Beaufort County and school district officials joined in the secrecy surrounding theÃâà...
Quad City Times
April 3, 2018
"I got the Russian cosmonauts, too," she said, digging into another album. Her album marked "Business and Sports" contains some off-beat autographed photos, including Colonel Sanders and Orville Redenbacher. She has Paul McCartney, Steven Spielberg, Walter Cronkite, Ted Turner, J. Edgar Hoover.
Roanoke Times
April 3, 2018
Adventure-based vacations are one of the fastest-growing segments in the industry, according to Ted Turner Expeditions, and this holds true for seniors, too, particularly those seeking to check off “bucket list” items as they age. Data from AARP covering 2018 travel plans for baby boomers supports some ofÃâà...
Kenosha News
April 2, 2018
In pre-recorded sessions, Rimkus and his team have interviewed media mogul Ted Turner and Mickey Dolenz of Monkees fame. In-studio guests have included Bob McGrath, one of the main cast members on “Sesame Street,” and Richard Kiel, who played the villain Jaws in James Bond movies.
Sean Hannity (blog)
March 30, 2018
“Perhaps the most amazing piece of pro-Soviet propaganda produced in the 1980s was Ted Turner's seven-hour Portrait of the Soviet Union, shown in the United States on the CNN founder's TBS Superstation. Even the New York Times, in a March 20, 1988, review, deemed it an embarrassment, sayingÃâà...
Aspen Times
March 30, 2018
He works for the Turner Endangered Species Fund, a private company whose mission is to protect imperiled species with an emphasis on the nearly 2 million acres owned by Ted Turner. He has co-authored "Awaking Spirits," which promotes the restoration of wolves throughout the southern Rockies,Ãâà...
Modern Distribution Management (blog)
March 28, 2018
You may be surprised to learn that many famous and successful business people aren't college graduates, including Bill Gates, Michael Dell, Mark Zuckerberg, Richard Branson, Ted Turner, Larry Ellison and countless others. When those HR professionals would argue with me about the “college degreeÃâà...
TravelPulse
March 27, 2018
Similarly, Ted Turner Expeditions noted in a post on its site that while cruises are still incredibly popular, unusual destinations, experiences, and objectives are influencing how seniors travel. Adventure-based vacations are one of the fastest-growing segments in the industry, according to Ted TurnerÃâà...
Charleston Post Courier
March 27, 2018
South Carolina, you now own billionaire Ted Turner's island beach retreat. Upkeep won't be cheap. Access is a bear. The landscaping is primitive. But St. Phillips Island is singular, even among other barrier islands in the state. And officials at the S.C. Department of Park, Recreation and Tourism really thinkÃâà...
Scuttlebutt Sailing News
March 26, 2018
Thanks to our long time member and three time Pineapple Cup winner, Ted Turner, a phone call to his friend Fidel resulted in their release 24 hours later. She also organized several Montego Bay Yacht Club fishing tournaments. Most memorable of these was the year the Club adopted “tag and release”Ãâà...
Los Alamos Daily Post
March 24, 2018
Friends Group Sells Raffle Tickets For Cow Elk Hunt On Ted Turner Ranch. Submitted by ... JEMEZ SPRINGS — The Friends of the Jemez Springs Public Library in Jemez Springs will raffle off a limited number of tickets for a chance to hunt on media mogul Ted Turner's 590,823 acre Vermejo Park Ranch.
Island Packet
March 24, 2018
The state bought media mogul and conservationist Ted Turner's former private retreat in December for $5 million and is now assessing the possibilities. The upside is clear — a 3,300 square-foot main house and its wide screened porch with stunning sunrise views is sure to command a premium weeklyÃâà...
Los Alamos Daily Post
March 23, 2018
Friends Group Sells Raffle Tickets For Cow Elk Hunt On Ted Turner Ranch. Submitted by ... JEMEZ SPRINGS — The Friends of the Jemez Springs Public Library in Jemez Springs will raffle off a limited number of tickets for a chance to hunt on media mogul Ted Turner's 590,823 acre Vermejo Park Ranch.
Nibletz
March 22, 2018
Turner, is the company originally founded by Ted Turner that owns cable giants CNN, TNT, TNN and more. Turner is one of the largest media companies in the country and have consistently given back to the Atlanta community in other ways. With this announcement they're firmly planting a seed andÃâà...
Atlanta Journal Constitution
March 20, 2018
... Atlanta fire spokesman Sgt. Cortez Stafford said. Crews used water extinguishers to douse the fire after a call came in around 9:25 a.m. through a smoke alarm activation. Luckie Street was temporarily blocked between Centennial Olympic Park and Ted Turner drives as crews worked in downtown AtlantaÃâà...
Eye On Annapolis
March 19, 2018
The Annapolis Film Festival will screen Courageous – Defending the 1977 America's Cup on Saturday, March 24 at Maryland Hall. It's the story of Ted Turner's underdog sailing victory and the beginning of his fame as an entrepreneur. During the America's Cup trials skipper Turner (37 -on left) and tacticianÃâà...
Atlanta Magazine
March 16, 2018
For its grand opening in October 1976, Lefont booked Casablanca in a Bogart double feature with The Maltese Falcon—and confronted his first scheduling crisis: after learning Ted Turner was showing the latter on Channel 17, Lefont instead paired the Nazi resistance romance with the General CusterÃâà...
Atlanta Journal Constitution
March 16, 2018
Baker Street and Ted Turner Drive were shut down. And the hotel was evacuated so officials could remove smoke from the building in the 200 block of Peachtree Street. A fire at the Westin Peachtree Plaza hotel led to an evacuation Thursday morning. JOHN SPINK / JSPINK@AJC.COM. While one of theÃâà...
Patch.com
March 15, 2018
The documentary is about Ted Turner's career and personal travails culminating in his underdog win of sailings' most important race - the America's Cup. The film is directed by Matt Allen of NBC Films, narrated by Michael Douglas and features the then 27 year old Annapolitan, Gary Jobson, as the boat'sÃâà...
Snopes.com
March 11, 2018
Jane Fonda at Sir Scott's Oasis Steakhouse. Fact Check Entertainment. 23 April 2004 Viral story claims Jane Fonda and Ted Turner were refused service in a restaurant run by a Vietnam War veteran. 972Ãâà...
Broadway World
March 10, 2018
Intent on creating a musical sound that was rich in texture and melody, Martin Turner envisaged the band's innovative harmony-guitar hallmark and guitarists Ted Turner and Andy Powell were recruited via a now legendary Melody Maker advert. The partnership of the original line-up of Wishbone AshÃâà...
Snopes.com
March 10, 2018
Jane Fonda at Sir Scott's Oasis Steakhouse. Fact Check Entertainment. 23 April 2004 Viral story claims Jane Fonda and Ted Turner were refused service in a restaurant run by a Vietnam War veteran. 826Ãâà...
Broadway World
March 10, 2018
Intent on creating a musical sound that was rich in texture and melody, Martin Turner envisaged the band's innovative harmony-guitar hallmark and guitarists Ted Turner and Andy Powell were recruited via a now legendary Melody Maker advert. The partnership of the original line-up of Wishbone AshÃâà...
PRI
March 9, 2018
We're professionals, directors, writers, actors, crew. We're professionals. With that said, I did this film for Ted Turner. It was called "The Miracle in the Wilderness." It was a Christmas movie about how they brought Jesus to Indians; it was a weird thing. I was so tired of being in a buckskin and saying, "Me wantÃâà...
Snopes.com
March 9, 2018
Jane Fonda at Sir Scott's Oasis Steakhouse. Fact Check Entertainment. 23 April 2004 Viral story claims Jane Fonda and Ted Turner were refused service in a restaurant run by a Vietnam War veteran. 11KÃâà...
Patch.com
March 7, 2018
Ted Turner, 79, is worth $2.2 billion and is ranked No. 1103 on the list. The Atlanta cable-television pioneer's Turner Broadcasting created CNN, TBS, TNT and other channels before he sold to Time-Warner. Now, Turner owns more than 2 million acres of land in seven states and the world's largest bisonÃâà...
Snopes.com
March 7, 2018
Although the e-mail in question appeared to surge from out of nowhere, the story about Jane Fonda and Ted Turner being refused service at a restaurant in Montana run by a Vietnam veteran dates back a number of years: In 1996 a caller to the popular radio talk show hosted by Rush Limbaugh related theÃâà...
The Chattanoogan
February 26, 2018
In addition to the seventeen new inductees, the group will also hand out six other awards including a special lifetime achievement award to former Atlanta Braves owner Ted Turner. You might be asking yourself, why Ted Turner? He's not from Chattanooga. You may also be forgetting that Ted attended theÃâà...
Billionaire.com
February 26, 2018
What is the best investment that Ted Turner, 79-year-old billionaire founder of Cable News Network (CNN), has ever made? A US$1-billion-dollar gift in 1997 to the United Nations (UN), which was used to launch the UN Foundation. “The gift was one of the best investments I have ever made,” says Turner.
The Real Deal Magazine
February 24, 2018
The Wetherells' plantation in the Red Hills region of the Florida Panhandle is adjacent to Avalon Plantation, owned by Ted Turner, the founder of cable television news outlet CNN. In addition to the five-bedroom, four-bathroom main house at Oak Hill Plantation, the property comes with a 1,600-square-footÃâà...
Atlanta Business Chronicle
February 23, 2018
A nearly 1,000-acre hunting plantation in the Red Hills area of the Florida Panhandle has just hit the market for $10.7 million. It's adjacent on at least two sides to Avalon Plantation owned by Atlanta media magnate and philanthropist Ted Turner. In addition to abundant deer, turkey, dove and quailÃâà...
The Chattanoogan
February 14, 2018
Robert Edward "Ted" Turner III, 79, will receive a President's Special Recognition at the Greater Chattanooga Sports Hall of Fame induction banquet. He will be represented by his son Rhett and his grandson, also Rhett — a McCallie School senior — at the 6:30 p.m. event at the Chattanooga ConventionÃâà...
Recode
February 8, 2018
Our founder, Ted Turner, once said about the cable TV industry, “We dreamed the whole thing up.” When I became chairman and CEO of Turner in 2014, it was becoming apparent that the world we were living in — and Turner had shaped — was rapidly changing. Consumption habits were changing,Ãâà...
Broadway World
December 31, 1999
From Wishbone Ash to John Lennon's iconic 'Imagine' Album to the creation of a brand new musical genre, Rolling Stones' Top 20 Guitarist, Ted Turner, and his wife and musical partner, Majella, launch their first artistic collaboration, the 'Better Together' album, prompting their international fan base toÃâà...
Charleston Post Courier
December 31, 1999
The 4,682-acre barrier island that once belonged to billionaire Ted Turner, St. Phillips Island, is now run by the S.C. Department of Park, Recreation and Tourism. Close. 1 of 14. PRINT boneyard trees.jpg. Buy Now. S.C. Department of Park, Recreation and Tourism leads a tour on St. Phillips Island,Ãâà...
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