Ted Turner's Influence On American Life

Ted Turner’s innovation idea came after his father’s death when he takes over his father’s billboard broadcast company. Ted Turner was motivated to prove to his father that he was worthy of taking over the company and he also wanted to be at the top. Turner was a brilliant man who was crazy enough to try all the impossible things and actually successful at it. When Turner takes over the billboard company and expands it, so that his broadcast can reach all over America and eventually it reaches to worldwide. He purchases WTCG and later changes to WTBS, a TV station that Turner broadcast shows such as the joke show, his baseballs team show, cheap show, and running black and white program to completing with another program that run color program, which thus lead him to be in debt. He also purchases UFT company and started
CNN first gain people’s attention by broadcast live news about Warhead in Arkansas, which later CNN gains the opportunity to do a live news about the Gulf War in Iraqis. This mark CNN the most influential of all time by being the only news that provides America first-hand information about the situation in the Gulf War. Also CNN news allows America viewers to watch history lives. CNN’s Influence reaches international, allowing America as well as every world leader and everybody in the world to have access to the information. Also CNN influences a change in the news industry from being just a local news and reporting on weather and post reported news to a more advance, a live new that reported about the current event or situation. Ted Turner’s influence on CNN and the globe makes him become a leader for world peace. Ted Turner innovation on CNN was a great example of the five I’s: Idea, Invention, innovation, impact, and influence, which explained why he was successful at his idea: broadcasting 24-hour live new or