Ted Turner has passed

[gtb1943]

No one can say that man did not live life to its fullest.

RIP

 

[triplets_93]

For note, Ted Turner was 87.

 

[rags747]

RIP Captain Outrageous! Won the Admirals Cup two times. I was bigtime into sailing as well so always admired his style off and on the water. The Mouth from the South was a force of nature. Godspeed Mr Turner…

 

[Reverend Conehead]

RIP, Ted Turner. He changed how we watch TV. He certainly was successful in life.

 

[big dog cowboy]

Back in the day he was a real pioneer.

 

[gtb1943]

RIP Captain Outrageous! Won the Admirals Cup two times. I was bigtime into sailing as well so always admired his style off and on the water. The Mouth from the South was a force of nature. Godspeed Mr Turner…

I think you mean the Americas Cup
but he was indeed Captain Ourtrageous
a true original

 

[darthseinfeld]

I loved what he did for cable. Back in the day TBS and TNT where staples of my viewing. Ted took alot of pride in his movie library

 

[Khartun]

The Braves wouldn't be what they are! RIP

 

[VaqueroTD]

24/7 news coverage is all over the place now, in whatever viewpoint you want. But Turner did it first. RIP.

 

[rags747]

I think you mean the Americas Cup
but he was indeed Captain Ourtrageous
a true original

100% the Americas Cup. Also won the 79 600 mile Fastnet race where 15 sailors died. A true original.

 

[Creeper]

I actually thought he died a long time ago. I must have misheard something. Anyway. RIP.

 

[John813]

I actually thought he died a long time ago. I must have misheard something. Anyway. RIP.

Same.

He was diagnosed with Lewy Body Dementia in ~2018.
Guess that's what threw me off/sort of surprised he lived 8 years with that disease at an advanced age

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

Like him or not. You can't argue he was not a huge force in the Cable business.

 

[DemonBlood]

He played a big part in my teenage years watching the WWF vs WCW Monday Night Wars on TV. Legend.

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

I imagine there are quite a few members here that are 50+

I remember living in WV and you had your basic abc. cbs, nbc and this was before fox started. You had those three plus PBS, WGN and TBS as your basic cable. I remember as a kid they would show this goofy show

 

[Reverend Conehead]

I imagine there are quite a few members here that are 50+

I remember living in WV and you had your basic abc. cbs, nbc and this was before fox started. You had those three plus PBS, WGN and TBS as your basic cable. I remember as a kid they would show this goofy show

I grew up in a small town in Texas, and I remember that. We had the three main ABC, NBC, and CBS from a roof antenna, but we also had two more UHF channels, channel 39 and 33. Thirty-nine was the reliable channel, while thirty-three was a channel we sometimes had and sometimes didn't. We were in a small town between Ft. Worth and Waco. If they blacked out a Dallas Cowboys game, my dad would go on the roof and aim the antenna toward Waco so that we could get the game. We didn't see cable TV until we moved away to another state and a big city. I remember being amazed by cable TV and how many channels and uncensored movies we got.

 

[gtb1943]

I grew up in a small town in Texas, and I remember that. We had the three main ABC, NBC, and CBS from a roof antenna, but we also had two more UHF channels, channel 39 and 33. Thirty-nine was the reliable channel, while thirty-three was a channel we sometimes had and sometimes didn't. We were in a small town between Ft. Worth and Waco. If they blacked out a Dallas Cowboys game, my dad would go on the roof and aim the antenna toward Waco so that we could get the game. We didn't see cable TV until we moved away to another state and a big city. I remember being amazed by cable TV and how many channels and uncensored movies we got.

those of us growing up in the 60's to 70's have seen it all
from black and white to color to cable to satellite to Netflix

where I grew up we had the local PBS channel in addition to the three networks
nothing on UHF at all