Farewell to Ted Turner

Ted Turner, who built WTBS into a superstation and founded Turner Classic Movies, TNT, Cartoon Network, and CNN, died yesterday, May 6, at the age of 87. He had been diagnosed with Lewy body dementia in 2018. Ted Turner was born Robert Edward Turner III on November 19, 1938, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was nine years old when his family moved to Savannah, Georgia. He went to The McCallie School in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He attended Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. He initially majored in classics, which his father, billboard magnate Robert Edward Turner II, objected to. He later switched his major to economics. He was expelled because he was discovered with a girl in his room. He then enlisted in the United States Coast Guard. After his service with the Coast Guard, Ted Turner became general manger of his the Macon, Georgia branch of his father's billboard business. His father committed suicide when Ted Turner as 24, and he became chief executive and president of Turner…