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He helped revive interest in professional wrestling by buying World Championship Wrestling (WCW). Turner turned the Atlanta Braves baseball team into a nationally popular franchise (including winning the 1995 World Series under his ownership), and launched the charitable Goodwill Games. CNN revolutionized news media, covering the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986 and the Persian Gulf War in 1991. His purchase of an Atlanta UHF station in 1970 began the Turner Broadcasting System. Turner's media empire began with his father's billboard business, Turner Outdoor Advertising, which he took over in March 1963 after his father's suicide. He currently serves as Co-Chairman of the Board of Directors.
NTI is a non-partisan organization dedicated to reducing global reliance on, and preventing the proliferation of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. Additionally, in 2001, Turner co-founded the Nuclear Threat Initiative with US Senator Sam Nunn (D-GA). Turner serves as Chairman of the United Nations Foundation board of directors. In addition, he founded WTBS, which pioneered the superstation concept in cable television, which later became TBS.Īs a philanthropist, he gave $1 billion to create the United Nations Foundation, a public charity to broaden U.S. He founded the Cable News Network (CNN), the first 24-hour cable news channel. Robert Edward Turner III (born November 19, 1938) is an American entrepreneur, television producer, media proprietor, and philanthropist.
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