CNN Salutes 'Captain Outrageous'

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CNN is saluting founder Ted Turner in a special that airs Nov. 17 at 9 p.m.

Ted Turner: The Maverick Man, which repeats at 1 a.m. (and will also air at 9 p.m. on CNN International), will profile the swashbuckling media exec who turned an Atlanta independent TV station into a pioneering "superstation" and parlayed that into a media empire that includes the first 24-hour cable news network.

Along the way he won the America's Cup sailing race and his Atlanta Braves won the World Series.

The special, which comes two days before Turner celebrates his 75th birthday, is reported by Wolf Blitzer and includes interviews with Turner, former wife Jane Fonda, President and fellow Georgian Jimmy Carter, and former TBS CEO Terry McGuirk, among many others.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.