Word: turneritis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Want to follow the ups and downs of cable television? Just watch Ted Turner, Atlanta's brash cable mogul and America's most entertaining businessman. In the go-go years of the 1970s and early '80s, Turner was the cable industry's chief cheerleader, creating the nation's first satellite-beamed superstation, WTBS, and confounding skeptics by successfully launching TV's first 24-hour news channel, the Cable News Network. In the mid-'80s, however, the cable industry hit a slump, and so did Turner. His 1984 attempt to start a music- video channel died after just a month...
...hold on to your hats, folks. Turner is back, once again doing what he enjoys most: pushing a big and bold new cable venture. Dubbed, with typical Turner flourish, TNT (Turner Network Television), the new channel will debut on Oct. 3 with a telecast of Turner's favorite movie, Gone With the Wind. After that, it will offer an array of, in Turner's modest description, the "finest programming on this planet," ranging from Charlton Heston in A Man for All Seasons to (Turner hopes) major sports events like the Rose Bowl and the Masters golf tournament. Industry observers...
...offensive in the sports arena. ESPN last year brought National Football League games to cable for the first time, buying a package of 39 contests over three years. ESPN's eight regular-season NFL telecasts last fall garnered the all-sports network its highest ratings ever. Ted Turner is negotiating with NBC to pick up a selection of Olympics events for his Atlanta-based superstation during the Summer Games in Seoul. With its growing financial clout, cable could one day bid for the rights to major events like the World Series -- though whether it could successfully take such events away...
...part on National Security Agency reports he was not authorized to see. So he gave the document to Richard Perle, then an aide to Senator Henry Jackson, later an Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Reagan Administration. "The study contained some very sensitive intelligence," recalls former CIA Director Stansfield Turner, who forced Sullivan to resign from the agency. Hardly slowed by the episode, Sullivan moved to Capitol Hill as an aide to Democratic Senator Lloyd Bentsen of Texas...
...TURNER'S COME AND GONE. Playwright August Wilson tops his last Broadway hit, Fences, with a mystical and moving slice of life set in a black boardinghouse...