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R. E. Turner (U.S.A.)特德·特纳
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.