The scene was more reminiscent of a Hollywood production than an elaborate prank by the Punk'd-master himself.
Ted Turner now asks Kutcher to use his Twitter prowess to combat malaria
Kutcher vows to punk Ted Turner if he wins the race to 1 million followers
Ted Turner appeared Tuesday on CNN, the network he founded, to talk about last week's election results, his business ventures, and his relationship with ex-wife Jane Fonda.
Ted Turner is working with Lutheran and United Methodist organizations to raise $200 million to fight malaria in Africa, the CNN founder announced Tuesday.
As his Gulfstream IV roared off the Bozeman, Mont., tarmac one Sunday this past December, billionaire Tim Blixseth glanced out the window and looked down at the Yellowstone Club. The homeowners in this 13,600-acre enclave include Bill Gates, News Corp.'s Peter Chernin, and Barry Sternlicht, the founder of Starwood Hotels & Resorts. The club is the world's only totally private ski and golf resort, and it is Blixseth's vision of nirvana. It is also as self-made as its founder, who grew up poor in rural Oregon and "ate Spam five days a week" when he wasn't using his father's shotgun to kill wild game for dinner. Despite this starting point, Blixseth went on to become a timber baron and smooth operator who twice persuaded President Bill Clinton and the U.S. Congress to allow him to create the club out of the Montana wilderness.
The Virgin king is set on saving the planet. Since the fall, Branson has pledged profits from his gas-guzzling airline businesses to alternative-fuels research and launched an eco-equivalent of the...
From the outside, the Seydel family's new home looks like any old Tudor manse. Well, it's too tall for its quiet block. (Neighbors have complained.) But who would guess that this is the largest eco...
"I don't want to own every ranch," Ted Turner once said. "I just want to own the ranch next door."
Ever since American Funds launched its first portfolio back in 1934, the company has taken an unlikely path to success. In an industry that seems to run on hype as much as performance, American Fun...
The scene was more reminiscent of a Hollywood production than an elaborate prank by the Punk'd-master himself.
Ted Turner now asks Kutcher to use his Twitter prowess to combat malaria
Kutcher vows to punk Ted Turner if he wins the race to 1 million followers
Ted Turner appeared Tuesday on CNN, the network he founded, to talk about last week's election results, his business ventures, and his relationship with ex-wife Jane Fonda.
Ted Turner is working with Lutheran and United Methodist organizations to raise $200 million to fight malaria in Africa, the CNN founder announced Tuesday.
As his Gulfstream IV roared off the Bozeman, Mont., tarmac one Sunday this past December, billionaire Tim Blixseth glanced out the window and looked down at the Yellowstone Club. The homeowners in this 13,600-acre enclave include Bill Gates, News Corp.'s Peter Chernin, and Barry Sternlicht, the founder of Starwood Hotels & Resorts. The club is the world's only totally private ski and golf resort, and it is Blixseth's vision of nirvana. It is also as self-made as its founder, who grew up poor in rural Oregon and "ate Spam five days a week" when he wasn't using his father's shotgun to kill wild game for dinner. Despite this starting point, Blixseth went on to become a timber baron and smooth operator who twice persuaded President Bill Clinton and the U.S. Congress to allow him to create the club out of the Montana wilderness.
The Virgin king is set on saving the planet. Since the fall, Branson has pledged profits from his gas-guzzling airline businesses to alternative-fuels research and launched an eco-equivalent of the...
From the outside, the Seydel family's new home looks like any old Tudor manse. Well, it's too tall for its quiet block. (Neighbors have complained.) But who would guess that this is the largest eco...
"I don't want to own every ranch," Ted Turner once said. "I just want to own the ranch next door."
Ever since American Funds launched its first portfolio back in 1934, the company has taken an unlikely path to success. In an industry that seems to run on hype as much as performance, American Fun...
In his first media interview since announcing that he's leaving the Time Warner board, Ted Turner said he's disappointed to see the company selling some of its assets and not taking enough risks but that he supports management in its fight with financier Carl Icahn.
Time Warner said Friday that Ted Turner, founder of the company's Turner cable networks and its largest individual shareholder, will not seek re-election to the company's board of directors.
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North Korea's chief nuclear negotiator says Pyongyang may be willing to offer proof that it does not have a uranium-based weapons program, which the United States claims it does.
CNN founder Ted Turner said Wednesday he was more proud of the network he founded 25 years ago than anything except his family. But, when asked, admitted he would do some things differently.
Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of the Soviet Union, said Wednesday the United States was hypocritical over nuclear armaments and not prepared to disarm its own weapons.
Yesterday was my final appearance on the air for CNN, which I joined more than 25 years ago, when a 24-hour, all-news network was just a much-derided idea developed by Ted Turner and a few pioneering news executives.
During its formative days, Reuters was a relentlessly innovative company, using the best tech it could get its hands on to carry the news. Before the telegraph came along, it beat competitors by us...
THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE is sometimes called the "world's largest casino." But Mark Cuban thinks that's unfair--to Las Vegas! The billionaire provocateur says trading stocks and bonds is actuall...
In 2001 journalist Ken Auletta profiled CNN founder Ted Turner for The New Yorker and subsequently won a National Magazine Award for his depiction of Turner's evolution from regional outdoor-advert...
Pattie Sellers's title is editor at large. Here's what she really is: schmoozer-in-chief. Pattie knows everybody, and her incessant networking--jargon for old-fashioned reporting--makes her a fount...
Ted Turner, a board member at Time Warner Inc., is trying to stop the company from buying independent movie studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, according to a published report.
Rain was pouring from the night sky at a rate that would have alarmed Noah, and Ted Turner and Steve Case were standing in a massive doorway at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, unable to mo...
Media mogul Ted Turner was awarded a star Wednesday on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.
Season's Greetings! I know full well that most of the folks on my holiday list neither need nor deserve gifts this year, but what with the economy turning and the stock market likely to be up for t...
His Fox TV network, which airs American Idol, is on a tear. His Fox News channel has a larger U.S. audience than CNN. Murdoch, 72, has shaken up markets from satellites to newspapers wherever in th...
Right after he cashed out $790 million in AOL Time Warner stock in early May, Ted Turner told FORTUNE that he would invest it "prudently and conservatively" (See "Gone With the Wind," on fortune.co...
Even when he is down, out, tired, miserable, wounded, worried, and wiped out--all words that spill from Ted Turner when he's asked how he's doing these days--he is, as ever, in motion. "I went 90 m...
Add one more to the list of things His Effervescence is likely to pursue in retirement: a singular crusade to stimulate the economy, to boost an American icon, and perhaps even to lift his own sagg...
Ted Turner, 64, may be quitting as vice chairman of AOL Time Warner (parent of FORTUNE's publisher), but he's hardly retiring. Some close to the CNN founder think he's miffed that the AOL board did...
Here's a statistic that will put the fear of the market gods in you--especially if your retirement is riding on your company stock holdings. Last year, according to a new study from Watson Wyatt, t...
When news reports recently surfaced that Kirk Kerkorian, the 83-year-old owner of MGM Studios, was interested in selling the company, the investing community braced for the exciting climax to this,...
A small landmark in the history of e-business came into being a few days ago on New York City's Madison Avenue. E*Trade, the big online broker--founded on the belief that brick-and-mortar retail br...
If you had any doubts that Ted Turner was still (a) crazy, (b) gutsy, or (c) both, forget about them. Last month Turner (a vice chairman of AOL Time Warner, parent of FORTUNE's publisher) dispatche...
When it comes to power lunch, you are not what you eat. You are where you eat. Local restaurant critics give us the lowdown:
Dressed in a conservative Western business suit, China's President Jiang Zemin in late September delivered a speech to executives at the FORTUNE Global Forum in Shanghai. Amid blasts on Taiwan and ...
Considering Scott Sassa's career, you might think his main talent is failing his way to success. He got fired from Fox Broadcasting by Barry Diller, squeezed out of Time Warner by Ted Turner, and n...
The din of criticism was positively deafening. Whenever media insiders and Wall Street heavies would gather in the spring of 1996, whether at cocktail parties or investment conferences, the talk wo...
Charity purists, beware. Anyone who thinks of Mother Teresa as the true embodiment of the virtue is hopelessly old-fashioned. Forget self-sacrifice (or Wasp noblesse oblige). Nowadays, giving money...
Real execs, take heart: Touchy-feely corporate outings may get elbowed aside in favor of a more aggressive form of bonding--the executive hunting trip. And what better corner of the country to shoo...
So you're a big cheese with a lot of dough--giving a billion dollars to charity has got to be a swell thing to do, right? Ted Turner's recent $1 billion pledge to the U.N. has raised the question, ...
Muriel Siebert, the doyenne of discount equities brokers, was driving out onto Long Island one Friday night when her car, a vintage Mercedes 350SL, got a flat tire. She pulled to the side of the ro...
THIS MONTH: --Don't bet your portfolio on Clinton or Dole. --Faster ways to apply to college --Financial software for today's retirees
Next month, the curtain will rise at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on a satirical theatrical production based on the life of Michael Milken. Choreographed by punk ballerina Karole Armitage and set ...
Big shots rearranging the media landscape--Michael Eisner, Gerald Levin, John Malone, Rupert Murdoch, Sumner Redstone, and Ted Turner come to mind--make obeisance to few men. But when the self-effa...
Ted Turner drank iced tea. Bill Gates downed prodigious amounts of Cherry Coke. They shared a lunch of cold salmon, sizing each other up across the dining-room table of a dream house built by Micro...
Sure, the recent mergers between Walt Disney Co. and Capital Cities/ABC and Time Warner and Turner Broadcasting pair fine assets. But the most tantalizing question surrounding the two megadeals inv...
THIS MONTH:
Get ready for a round of raucous corporate marriages--and a honeymoon for share prices--that will bring back memories of the booming '80s.
Shaped like a snub-nosed bullet, the ruthless billionaire who controls CBS may be the world's worst broadcaster, but Laurence A. Tisch is close to making a killing from the Tiffany Network's tatter...
The melody borne on the breeze from Capitol Hill this summer might be called "At Long Last, War." Congress is poised to toss out the antiquated Communications Act of 1934 and tear down the barriers...
Hollywood lore has it that Edgar Bronfman Sr., father of the bearded, 39-year-old high school graduate who now rules the Seagram liquor empire, long cherished a desire to buy the MCA movie studio. ...
The business of content -- copyrighted material such as movies and TV shows -- has always been a game of musical chairs. The latest scramble began in November when Capital Cities/ABC created a $200...
Friends, it is time. Once again we reach for the envelopes and announce the ten most notorious businesspersons of the year. As usual, relative notoriety is gauged by the number of articles in the N...
Of course not. But after reading Lost Prophets (Harvard Business School Press, $27.95), you could be forgiven for thinking they're a pretty accident-prone bunch, theoretically speaking. In the intr...
SHARPER IMAGE Who's Eastman Kodak focusing on to be its next CEO? The board member in charge of the search committee, Coca-Cola's head, Roberto Goizueta, says that the new chief should know marketi...
THE BILLIONAIRES/COVER STORIES 86 THE BILLIONAIRES It's the frugal 1990s, and the world's 233 wealthiest individuals and families seem to be cooling the spending. One reason conspicuous consumption...
You will recall that we started off the year with a socko list of the ten ''most notorious'' businesspersons, notoriety being operationally defined as the number of news stories and articles residi...
Keeping Up herewith proudly inaugurates an annual list of the ten most notorious businesspersons of the year. Our operative definition of ''notorious'' is the first one supplied by Webster's New Wo...
Sounds like media mogul Ted Turner, 53, isn't the easiest of dads. His son Robert Edward ''Teddy'' Turner IV, 28, the second of Turner's five children from two marriages, says he's not asking for f...
This month, federal rules take effect to make money funds safer by capping maturities. Likely result: new, slightly riskier hybrids akin to short-term bond funds.And, Ted Turner's Airport Channel, ...
Want some early glimpses at the talents of chiefs of FORTUNE 500 companies and other big CEOs? Take a look at the excerpts above from high school yearbooks -- which report on their ambitions, their...
Draped Italian suits Fake furs Arsenio Hall Imported vodka Japan bashing Bond funds Animated films Ted Turner Chapter 11 White knights Texas Pearls
Woody Allen is stronger on comedic drama than public policy. We first gravitated to that cautious judgment 20 years ago, when he briefly walked out ) on the Broadway production of Play It Again, Sa...
WHETHER YOU'RE a bull or a bear, there's one thing you want to avoid -- dogs. Simple advice, to be sure, but not always easy to put into practice, especially when a likely slowing of economic growt...
One live cougar, one dead cougar, and three Nebraska black bears are making a monkey out of Ted Turner, CEO of Turner Broadcasting System. Out of the news lately, and glad of it, Turner, 49, now fi...
LOOKING AHEAD/ Cover Story
-- CAROL COX, 45, head of Citizens for a Responsible Federal Budget, on presidential candidate Paul Simon's proposal to cut the deficit through lower unemployment and interest rates: ''I am tempted...
If you're still trying to comprehend the changes wrought by the Tax Reform Act of 1986, don't feel bad. Congress seems just as confused. It is working on a 500-page package containing hundreds of t...
As befits its swashbuckling owner, Ted Turner's Cable News Network has managed a breathtaking feat of derring-do. In contrast to the three major networks, whose news operations are considered prest...
LOOKING AHEAD/ Cover Story Executive Guilt: Who' s Taking Care of the Children? 30 Worries about kids raised by nannies or day care centers are being aired from corporate boardrooms to Congress. by...
TED TURNER didn't go broke in 1986. Considering this cable TV titan's mania for outrageous business risks, survival may be the most impressive of his many recent accomplishments. Lean and cocky at ...
We like Nancy Reagan's resonant solution to the drug problem: ''Just say no.'' But how about applying it more broadly? Holding aloft a beacon, here is a random selection of phenomena to which yours...
WARREN BUFFETT, 56, the chairman and guiding genius of Berkshire Hathaway, the phenomenally successful holding company, is worth at least $1.5 billion. But don't bother being jealous of his three c...
Ted Turner, flamboyant head of Turner Broadcasting System, owner of the MGM film library, corporate debtor of epic proportions, and ardent advocate of world peace, has found a new role: creator and...
A NEW MOVEMENT to restrict outdoor advertising has reached Washington. Vermont, Maine, and Hawaii have long banned billboards. At least half a dozen cities have cracked down since Houston, forested...
AMONG MANY other stories in this issue, FORTUNE examines the wrenching changes that one of America's toughest bosses, Jack Welch, is bringing to one of the world's most celebrated companies, Genera...
COCKY, shrewd, and so wildly unorthodox that even some admirers regard him as slightly crazy, Robert Edward Turner III owns most of Turner Broadcasting System and runs that Atlanta cable TV network...
''I've never done anything like this before. It's like sailboat racing in a hurricane. It's like being in an airplane in a storm. You buckle your seat belt.'' -TED TURNER, 47, head of Turner Broadc...
Ted Turner lops $266 million off the cash part of his bid for MGM/UA Entertainment. His latest offer: $20 and one share of preferred stock for each share of MGM/UA, vs. a previous offer of $25 and ...
TED TURNER didn't go broke in 1986. Considering this cable TV titan's mania for outrageous business risks, survival may be the most impressive of his many recent accomplishments. Lean and cocky at ...
Ted Turner, the Atlanta broadcasting mogul, turned down an offer by NBC to buy half of Cable News Network, Turner Broadcasting's 24-hour news program. A Turner spokesman said he didn't want to give...
After fighting a losing takeover battle with CBS, Ted Turner sailed into smoother waters and reached agreement with MGM/UA Entertainment to buy the movie company for $1.5 billion in a friendly deal...
After waging largely a war of words against Ted Turner's takeover bid, CBS lobbed its first real bomb. CBS Chairman Thomas Wyman announced a plan to buy back 21% of the company's stock for $955 mil...
CBS INC. has long supported deregulation of the broadcast industry. But faced by the takeover threats of Ted Turner, a newly hatched corporate raider from the pygmy Turner Broadcasting System, the ...
We have been meaning to write about the college commencement scene for several Junes now and to register this funny feeling that some will doubtless diagnose as neoconservative paranoia but that ha...
Three years ago, in the hope of earning a living, I took a job teaching writing at a small women's college . . . I soon learned . . . my students were in no mood to . . . fiddle with a blank sheet ...
Reading through the press kit of the Better World Society, it suddenly hit us that Ted Turner has been getting criticized for the wrong reasons. The usual fulmination against Ted these days leans h...
In which Kindly Dr. Keeping Up fields questions about various proposals now afoot to do something about the great teenage employment crisis, or whatever it is. Dear Dr. Up: Please assay the theoret...
There are innumerable . . . ''women with inherited wealth'' who feel isolated and ''powerless'': having money, lots of money, becomes a threat to their personal happiness . . . Marian, a 36-year-ol...
A male jail inmate has been given a judge's permission to wear high heels and a dress to his murder trial. Brevard County jail policy allows inmates to wear ''street clothes'' to trial but doesn't ...
WASHINGTON has become the permanent front in corporate America's takeover wars. As Unocal and Mesa Petroleum Chairman T. Boone Pickens Jr., CBS and TV entrepreneur Ted Turner, and other opposing fo...
In the past few months, Wall Street analysts have been eyeing communications companies generally, and television networks in particular, as attractive takeover targets. In many cases stock prices u...
For me, the toughest moment in the press conference that AOL and Time Warner called to announce their big deal--even worse than Ted Turner's declaration that he was more excited than the first time...
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