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1980年特纳创立了世界上第一家24小时直播的全球电视新闻网络,CNN。之后的二十年里,公司再拔头筹,创立了包括有线电视新闻和娱乐业务在内的一整套节目。
1990年代中期,城堡石电影公司和新线电影公司相继并入特纳广播的旗下。 1996年,公司合并了时代华纳公司,2001年时代华纳又和AOL合并。公司后来又重新改名为“时代华纳公司”。
特纳是“特纳基金会”的主席。该基金会创立于1990年,宗旨是资助各种为提高空气和水的质量、发展可持续性能源以保护全球气候、保护环境卫生、野生生物生境保护、以及为控制人口增长率而实施的各种活动和政策。
1997年9月,特纳宣布向联合国基金会捐助10亿美元。联合国基金会的宗旨是支持联合国,建立一个更加和平,繁荣和公平的世界。
特纳后来创立了两家独立的电影制作公司,特德•特纳电影公司和特德•特纳记录片公司。
特纳获得过无数名誉学位,行业奖和市民奖。1991年他荣获《时代》周刊“年度人物奖”,1999年荣获“世纪广播和有线人物奖”。
In 1980 Turner launched CNN, the world's first live, 24-hour global news network.Over the next two decades, the company built a portfolio of unrivaled cable television news and entertainment brands and businesses.
In the mid-'90s, Castle Rock Entertainment and New Line Cinema became Turner Broadcasting properties. In 1996, the company merged with Time Warner Inc., and in 2001, Time Warner merged with AOL the company later changed its name back to Time Warner Inc.
He is the Chairman of the Turner Foundation, Inc. founded in 1990, which supports efforts for improving air and water quality, developing a sustainable energy future to protect our climate, safeguarding environmental health, maintaining wildlife habitat protection, and developing practices and policies to curb population growth rates.
In September 1997, Turner announced his historic pledge of up to $1 billion to the United Nations Foundation (UNF). The organization supports the goals and objectives of the United Nations to promote a more peaceful, prosperous and just world.
Turner later created two independent film production companies, Ted Turner Pictures and Ted Turner Documentaries.
He is the recipient of numerous honorary degrees, industry awards and civic honors, including being named Time magazine’s 1991 Man of the Year and Broadcasting and Cable’s Man of the Century in 1999.