Media man : Ted Turner's improbable empire / Ken Auletta.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Auletta, Ken.

Series:

Enterprise (New York, N.Y.)

Enterprise

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Turner, Ted.

Businesspeople--United States--Biography.

Businesspeople.

Telecommunication.

Sports team owners.

United States.

Sports team owners--United States--Biography.

Telecommunication--United States--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

205 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Norton, [2004]

Summary:

TED TURNER, the "mouth from the South," revolutionized television. Grasping cable's potential in its infancy, Turner parlayed a tiny UHF station in Atlanta into a national cable superstation; invented the world's first 24-hour cable news channel, CNN; and transformed the MGM film library into lucrative cable networks. Although Turner sold his company to Time Warner and was eventually ousted, his influence is still pervasive in the business world through his philanthropy. Ken Auletta, whose "New Yorker profile of Turner won a National Magazine Award for Best Profile in 2001, has written the first book-length retrospective on the volatile Turner and his roller-coaster career, and received the active cooperation of Turner himself, including fifteen hours of taped interviews. "Media Man is a captivating view of a daring entrepreneur, a pioneering company, and the industry they helped create.

Contents:

Getting fired

Father and son

The rabbit

The rabbit mates

A billionaire Jeremiah

Turner wrestles the bear

The merger from hell

Hubris

Exits

Zorba the Greek.

Notes:

"Atlas books."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-188) and index.

ISBN:

0393051684

OCLC:

55495035