The book Call Me Ted, by Ted Turner, describes his early life, accomplishments, and struggles. I will be answering the following questions about Ted Turner: What made Ted Turner inspired to start CNN? Did the Gulf War have an impact on starting CNN? How did Ted Turner own Channel 17? How did Ted Turner start his business with the Braves?
What made Ted Turner inspired to start CNN? Ted Turner first started on the road to success by taking over his father’s business. Ted Turner’s father committed suicide because of bankruptcy. Ted knew nothing about controlling, or owning a business. At the age of 24, Ted Turner took over Turner Advertising. Ted Turner became the chief executive of Turner Advertising and the CEO of the company. From there, Ted
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started his own channel, WTCG Channel 17 Atlanta. Through this channel, Ted Turner could advertise his baseball team, the Atlanta Braves. Ted became the coach of the Atlanta Braves and advertised the team through Channel 17. After Ted Turner’s experience starting Channel 17, he decided to take a gamble and start CNN. CNN Would be the first twenty four hour cable news network. Ted Turner also became inspired to start CNN because of media buyers. When Ted Turner was talking “to media buyers, all they wanted was ABC, NBC, and CBS.” Ted Turner wanted to change those odds around in his favor and become successful with CNN. The device that Ted Turner used as a network source was a UHF. UHF stand for Ultra High Frequency. The networks throughout Atlanta all had stations that where VHF. VHF stands for a Very High Frequency station. This means that all stations had all strong network affiliates. Ted Turner was not getting enough customers because of the lack of high quality satellite service he had for Channel 17. Did the Gulf War have an impact on CNN? Ted Turner then started to take a risk and launch CNN on June 1, 1970. On August 1, 1990 when Tom Johnson became the president and CEO of CNN. CNN did not get many views at first until the Gulf War. The Gulf War occurred on August 2, 1990. Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi army invaded Kuwait Tom’s second day of being in charge of CNN. As CNN expanded, many governments hesitated to at the idea of bringing “American” news to the whole world. To demonstrate that CNN was open to a wide range of views. Tom Johnson then started a program called World Report. CNN dedicated time on the air to broadcast events that were happening around the world. Ted Turner’s idea demonstrated to our global partners that CNN operated with a spirit of fairness and openness. This also gave viewers in the United States the opportunity to see how other countries viewed world events. Annual conference meetings were held with all the World Report representatives of each participating countries and networks. As the fall of 1990 progressed, Operation Desert Storm would be a defining moment for CNN. The war could prove to their viewers that CNN is set out to be the world’s new leader in covering news from around the world. Ted described in his book that the cost for televising an international story would not be inexpensive. Even though the stations ratings were sure to grow, CNN’s advertising revenue would not. At one point, Tom asked Ted how much he may spend and Ted replied, “You spend whatever it takes, pal.” That was the end of their meeting and Tom was surprised. Ted Turner was very dedicated to CNN that he spent thirty-five million dollars to improve existing facilities and establish new ones throughout the Gulf region. This included Baghdad, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Saudi Arabia, Cairo, and Amman, Jordan. Since there was a war going on in that region, Ted told the journalists that if they did not want to stay, they did not have to. But, if the journalists did want to, that was okay with Ted and he would take full responsibility if something were to happen to them. On January 16, 1991 CNN’s journalists, Bernie, Peter Arnett, and John Holliman delivered gripping coverage as the bombs began to fall in Baghdad. CBS, ABC, and NBC all had their anchors sitting behind a desk and talking about the bombing, whereas CNN was the only network that had live coverage. The coverage on the Gulf War made CNN gain one billion dollars because consumers stayed home and were glued to their TV’s. How did Ted Turner own Channel 17?
Ted Turner got the idea of CNN from his channel that he already owned. Channel 17 first started off as a sitcom channel. On Channel 17, their would be reruns of movies and new shows would be produced. Gilligan’s Island was a popular broadcast on Channel 17. Ted Turner thought to himself and realized that he would soon be losing money if he did not change his business strategy. Channel 17 was owned by Rice Broadcasting which was run by Jack Rice Jr.Jak;s initials provided the call letters, WJRJ. When Ted Turner met with Jack Rice, he found out that Jack’s business was bleeding cash. Ted Turner wanted to invest in the channel because his company could use the losses to lower their tax obligations while he turned the station around. Another reason why Ted wanted to use the deal was to promote his station. About fifteen percent of Ted’s billboard inventory went unsold. The signs all over Atlanta, Ted could put the unsold ones to use and promote their radio station. Ted Turner thought it was a challenge, but he loved the challenge of …show more content…
Television. The entire channel costed $2.5 million. The radio station that Ted owned at the time was worth $7.5 million. Ted figured out that he could not pay cash, so they negotiated a stock swap. This left Ted as the largest single shareholder in the combined company but would drop his percentage ownership to about forty-seven percent. The board of directors, that were mostly friends of Ted’s father, did not want him to go with the deal and were not used to Ted’s aggressive business style. The board continued to make objections, but they knew that Ted had the voting control of the stock and in the end his enthusiasm wore them down and Ted finally had control over Channel 17. How did Ted Turner start his business with the Braves?
As Channel 17 was looking worse by the day, television was where Ted wanted to be and he was determined it give it a try. Ted first owned the channel in January 1970 and changed the letters to WTCG, for Turner Communications Group. Ted Turner wanted to have sports on his channel to really jump to the next level. Ted already took professional wrestling from the ABC station and the customers lover watching it. Later, Ted found out that the Atlanta Braves were knew in town and had recently moved from Milwaukee in 1966. Ted figured that if he could somehow get the Braves onto WTCG, it would be a huge coup. The rankings would go up, and many Atlantans who did not have UHF, which was about fifty percent of the market, would buy one just to see the Braves games. The Braves lost money since moving to Atlanta. Ted offered the Braves $600,000 per year. This was three times what WSB’s fee. In return, Ted wanted sixty games instead of twenty. After some negotiating, Bill Bartholomay, who led the group that purchased the Milwaukee Braves, agreed to Ted’s
offer. Ted Turner describes in his book that, “The braves were a huge shot in the arm for us.” What Ted means by this is that the ratings for the games were strong and their ad sales team had solid success selling them. When Hank Aaron was traded to Milwaukee the very season he broke Babe Ruth’s record, lost ninety-four games, and saw their attendance drop almost in half. This means there were fewer than seven thousand a game. There were barely six hundred people in the stands for the Braves last game of the season. The Braves were obviously going to lose their last game, so Ted decided to talk to Dan Donahue, the team’s president. Ted wanted to know what Dan had in mind to get the excitement up next year. Dan told Ted that he is going to sell the company to him. Ted said that he would buy the Braves but not for ten million dollars in cash. Ted offered to pay the ten million over nine years to pay the rest, with interest. Bill and his partner agreed to take the offer. Thus, Ted’s business with the Braves, began. Overall, I admire Ted Turner for his hard work and dedication to succeed in his radio and television business. Ted’s hard work and dedication paid off in the end. If I was Ted Turner, I probably would have not been as risky as he was. Taking a chance on CNN was a huge deal, considering that their were three other news channels already competing with each other. Taking on the Atlanta braves was also a huge risk for Ted to take on. Also considering that the Atlanta Braves were one million dollars in debt. In the end, Ted Turner was on the road to success when he took over his father’s business. Now, Ted is a billionaire that is generous to society by supporting and organizing foundations to help those in need.
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Frederick Douglass brilliantly intelligent and defiant once led a minor insurrection against his masters and escapes his venture alive. Douglass’s career as a militant, uncompromising leader of the American Negro.
Frederick Douglass was born in February 1818 in his grandmother's cabin. His mother was Harriet Bailey a slave owned by Aaron Anthony. The last time he saw his mother was when he was one year old. He never knew his father. The only thing he knew about him was that he was a white man. This report will be about the worst things about slavery in the eyes of Frederick Douglass.
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