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Ratings were not yet available for the telecasts by games originator Ted Turner on his TBS cable channel in the U.S. and on TV systems in more than 70 other nations. But in Seattle, where most events were staged, ticket sales lagged; there were even 1,000 empty seats at the welcoming gala. Turner raised his estimate of losses on the games from $13 million to $26 million or more. But he insisted that the event, which he created in 1986 in a different climate, retains its rationale. "Things have certainly improved as far as our government-to-government relations...
...carries N.B.A. basketball (Turner just renewed his package of 50 regular-season games for four more years at the hefty cost of $275 million), and will offer 50 hours of exclusive Winter Olympics coverage in 1992. And if TNT seems to be stealing some thunder (and some programming) from TBS SuperStation, Turner's older and still more widely seen channel, the ratings do not show it: TBS's audience in December was the highest in its history. The creation of TNT now seems like a marketing masterstroke. "They are like two brands put out by the same manufacturer," says Gerry...
Turner's advocacy programming drew fire last summer when TBS SuperStation aired Abortion: For Survival, a pro-choice documentary produced by the Fund for a Feminist Majority. The program was denounced by antiabortion groups, whom Turner later described at a press conference as "bozos." Turner now regrets the outburst. "I was answering a question as Citizen Turner," he says. "I was not answering it as Ted Turner, president of Turner Broadcasting. I was really sorry that I used that term." Still, Citizen Turner hasn't toned down his views. "These people ((antiabortionists)) talk about adoption as an alternative. That...
...peripatetic TV kingpin has relaxed his day-to-day involvement in TBS and toned down his former "Captain Outrageous" image. Divorced from his second wife, Turner lives in a penthouse atop CNN headquarters in downtown Atlanta. But he spends an increasing portion of his time at his various retreats: two plantations in South Carolina and Florida and a ranch in Montana, where he goes fly-fishing and plans to keep a herd of buffalo. "He's much mellower now," says an associate. "He doesn't yell at people." Turner puts it differently: "I am maturing. That's better than aging...
CHICO MENDES: VOICE OF THE AMAZON (TBS, Nov. 1, 10:05 p.m. EST). This one-hour documentary focuses on the martyred Brazilian's efforts to save the Amazonian rain forest and includes the last television interview Mendes gave before his 1988 assassination...