Legendary businessman, TV producer, media proprietor and philanthropist
Ted Turner died at his Tallahassee, Florida home from f Lewy body dementia on
May 6. He was 87. Born Robert Edward Turner III in Cincinnati, Ohio on November
19, 1938. He founded (CNN) Cable News Network, the first 24-hour cable news
channel. He also owned (TVM) Turner Classic Movies In addition, he founded
WTBS, which pioneered the superstation concept in cable television, as well as
television network TNT. Ted’s networks were where many of us saw for the first
time some of the Spaghetti westerns not shown on the other networks or local
stations. TNT also produced the TV Spaghetti western films “Dead for a Dollar” 1998
and “Outlaw Justice” 1999 directed by Gene Quintano and filmed in Spain on
several of the old Spaghetti westerns sites.
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