In the late 1960s, Turner began buying several Southern radio stations. The book observed that Turner "discovered his father had sheltered a substantial amount of taxable income over the years by personally lending it back to the company" and "discovered that the billboard business could be a gold mine, a tax-depreciable revenue stream that threw off enormous amounts of cash with almost no capital investment". ĭuring the Vietnam War era, Turner's business prospered it had "virtual monopolies in Savannah, Macon, Columbus, and Charleston" and was the "largest outdoor advertising company in the Southeast", according to It Ain't as Easy as It Looks. He joined the Young Republicans, saying he "felt at ease among these budding conservatives and was merely following in 's far-right footsteps", according to It Ain't as Easy as It Looks. Following his father's suicide in March 1963, Turner became president and chief executive of Turner Advertising Company when he was 24 and turned the firm into a global enterprise. Business career WTBSĪfter leaving Brown University, Turner returned to the South in late 1960 to become general manager of the Macon, Georgia branch of his father's business. Honored by the United States Navy Memorial with its Lone Sailor Award in 2013, Turner told the Washington Post, "I liked boats".and ended up getting deployed to some pretty sweet places - Charleston & Fort Lauderdale. from Brown University in November 1989 when he returned to campus to give the keynote address for the National Association of College Broadcasters second annual conference.Įxpelled from Brown just as tensions in Vietnam were beginning to heat up, Turner joined the United States Coast Guard Reserve in order to fill his service obligation before he ended up getting drafted. Turner later changed his major to economics, but before receiving a degree, he was expelled for having a female student in his dormitory room. His father wrote saying that this choice made him "appalled, even horrified", and that he "almost puked". Turner attended Brown University and was vice-president of the Brown Debating Union and captain of the sailing team. He attended The McCallie School, a private boys' preparatory school in Chattanooga, Tennessee. When he was nine, his family moved to Savannah, Georgia and raised him as an Episcopalian. Turner was born on Novemin Cincinnati, Ohio, the son of Florence (née Rooney) and Robert Edward Turner II, a billboard magnate.
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He also created the environmental-themed animated series Captain Planet and the Planeteers. He uses much of his land for ranches to re-popularize bison meat (for his Ted's Montana Grill chain) and has amassed the largest herd in the world. He was the largest private landowner in the United States until John C. Turner has also devoted his assets to environmental causes. Turner's penchant for controversial statements earned him the nicknames "The Mouth of the South" and "Captain Outrageous".
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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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