00:00Got some sad news to report. CNN's founder, cable pioneer, Ted Turner, he has died at the age of 87.
00:08Of course, really, you know, seen as one of the most important figures in the history of media over, let's
00:14call it, the last 50 years.
00:15He basically helped create a modern-day cable ecosystem as we know it.
00:21Of course, it's changed a lot in the last 10 to 15 years.
00:24But creator of CNN and any number of other networks, TBN, the Superstation, and so many other assets that he
00:34owned, obviously selling the company many years ago.
00:36I can remember reporting on the deal to Time Warner.
00:39And CNN remains a Warner property, of course, soon to be a part of the combination of Paramount and Warner.
00:45But he was a giant. Carl, I bet you can remember as well.
00:49I can remember sort of chasing him around when he was so relevant, and he was really tall, too, but,
00:55I mean, just a giant of the industry and outsized personality, of course.
00:59When you did get him for an interview, you were never disappointed in his willingness to really say things in
01:05a way that we don't typically hear from chief executives these days.
01:08As the remembrances begin to roll in, the phrase Mouth of the South getting some play, widely known, obviously, for
01:15his candor, as you said.
01:16But beyond television, land conservation, nuclear proliferation, bison population, so many other philanthropic endeavors.
01:26A huge contribution to the U.N., if you recall, that was made many years ago as well.
01:30Right. Although he did say that CNN was the greatest achievement in his life, and it's hard to even get
01:36your arms around how much he changed the pulse of modern media and arguably the cadence of society in some
01:42ways.
01:43Yeah, without a doubt. I mean, you can think about CNN back in, what, 1980 when we first sort of
01:50became a cable network that people became aware of around the world, by the way.
01:56I think a lot about my friend John Malone, of course. We do our annual interview, and inevitably, John always
02:01talks about his Ted Turner stories. They were very close.
02:04I guess it was innovative to start, you know, delivering news around the world in real time at all times,
02:11right?
02:11That was kind of the pioneering concept that made him famous. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio.
02:17No kidding.
02:20I just found that one.
02:21I didn't know that. Yeah, we, you know, and remember, he was also a sailor.
02:25I mean, you know, it's funny, you forget, learned to sail, you know, was the, Courageous was, I think, his,
02:31the name of his sailboat, the America's Cup.
02:36Just sort of a singular figure in so many different ways.
02:40Obviously, it's sort of retreated from public life in recent years, so we haven't talked about him, but it does
02:44take you back to those exciting days when the media industry was changing so significantly.
02:48And the cable ecosystem, of which we are, of course, still a part, key part, was being created by, by
02:55this gentleman, Ted Turner, dead at the age of 87.
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02:59Amen.
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