Ted Turner 1938-2026
 

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Re: Ted Turner 1938-2026
 

I appreciate his love of wrestling which led to WCW getting national exposure it might not have otherwise and him being half of the inspiration behind cinema classic Gremlin 2’s Daniel Clamp.

I know little else about him. I know he was viewed as a kind of “Good” captain of industry. I don’t know that that is totally possible in this country but in respect to the aforementioned qualities about him I won’t research any further.

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He was definitely a pioneer with cable TV. Before TNT lost the NBA and stopped making scripted TV, it was a pretty solid cable network.

And I did watch a lot of TBS back in the day.

I still watch CNN sporadically, but I know a lot of people hate that network.

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When I used to eat meat regularly, I used to love his Bison restaurant, Ted's Montana Grill. It was hot thing for about 5 minutes.

I was surprised to see that there are still 47 open locations across 16 states. All the ones around us closed many years ago. Bison meat tasted pretty damn good. I thought it was Buffalo until I looked it up. Apparently, they are two different animals, and I have to admit that I thought they were the same thing.

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Ted's had great food. Their onion rings were fantastic.

AFAIK, the one not far from me is still open.

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No wonder he bought a lot of land to protect bison.

RIP and he left a legacy of great TV networks and WCW when it was still in business.

The world would have sucked with no CNN, TNT, TCM, Headline News, Cartoon Network, Boomerang, and TBS.

He made a big donation to the UN so he was not the typical greedy rich guy.

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He made the Atlanta Braves a team with a national following through the power of TBS. Cable would have been very different without Turner in the 1980s and 1990s. Apparently the WCW was never particularly profitable until the NWO era and only remained on the air thanks to Ted.

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Cable started out as something that could deliver what regular TV wouldn’t or couldn’t, and with NO commercials. TBS was a joke- and I know you could get that free over the air if you lived in Atlanta, but they promoted that as a reason to get cable elsewhere. I remember visiting someone who had it and I laughed “You’re telling me that GILLIGAN’S ISLAND RERUNS” are the type of quality entertainment you can only get from cable???” I know there were many shows in local
reruns that were taken off because cable channels had gotten exclusive rights to them- same shows, with the same amount of commercials, but you had to PAY for them. I’m already paying by watching the commercials, where are those subscription fees going?

Movies on basic cable channels are also usually the cut for TV versions- totally inexcusable.

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Cable's big selling point, and the reason people signed up was to get the movie channel. Usually HBO or Showtime. You had to have basic cable (2-13) in order to get the premium channel. So people paid $9.95 for basic, plus 9.99 for the movie channel. Most continued to watch network channels and just the premium channel.
TBS did have all the Braves games. WGN had Cubs, White Sox and Bulls games. Nashville Network had Grand Ole Opry live.

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Those were the days