Turner also purchased UHF Channel 36 WRET ( now WCNC ) in Charlotte, North Carolina and ran it with a format similar to WTCG.

After a failed attempt to acquire CBS, Turner purchased the film studio MGM / UA Entertainment Co. from Kirk Kerkorian in 1986 for $ 1. 5 billion.

In 1988, Turner purchased Jim Crockett Promotions which he renamed World Championship Wrestling ( WCW ) which became the main competitor to Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Federation ( WWF ).

On January 11, 2001, Time Warner was purchased by AOL to become AOL Time Warner, a merger which Turner initially supported.

In 1996, Turner's company, Turner Broadcasting System ( whose Turner Entertainment division oversaw the film library ), was purchased by Time Warner who also owned Warner Bros .. Today, Warner Home Video holds the video rights to the entire Looney Tunes / Merrie Melodies animated output by virtue of Time Warner's ownership of Turner Entertainment — this is why their Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVD box sets include cartoons from both the pre-8 / 48 Turner-owned and post-7 / 48 Warner Bros. owned periods.

Starting in 1960, the cartoons were repackaged into several different TV programs that remained popular for several decades before being purchased by Turner Broadcasting Systems.

In early 2000, Mike Turner, founding member and guitarist of the Canadian band Our Lady Peace purchased the book intrigued by the concepts that it contained.

Then, in 1986, media mogul Ted Turner purchased MGM / UA.

Federal-Mogul, an American automotive supplier, purchased the assets of Turner & Newhall, and is itself in Chapter 11 bankruptcy due to asbestos liability.

Recognizing the large number of workers such a facility would employ, Bremer and his business partner and brother-in-law, Henry Hensel, purchased the undeveloped land near Point Turner at the inflated price of $ 200 per acre.

In 1986, the pre-1950 WB and the pre-May 1986 MGM film and television libraries were purchased by Ted Turner after its short-lived ownership of MGM / UA, and as a result CBS / Fox lost home video rights to the pre-1950 WB films to MGM / UA Home Video.

Based in Atlanta, Georgia, it began as a regional promotion affiliated with the National Wrestling Alliance ( NWA ), named Jim Crockett Promotions until November 1988, when Ted Turner and his Turner Broadcasting purchased the promotion, renaming it " World Championship Wrestling ".

Turner, and later Time-Warner, owned WCW until 2001 when it was purchased by its primary competitor, the World Wrestling Federation ( WWF ), now known as WWE.

In March 2000, Turner Broadcasting System purchased the rights and now often airs the film on TBS.

In 1986, Lorimar merged with television syndication firm Telepictures, becoming Lorimar-Telepictures ; later that year, they purchased the MGM lot from Ted Turner.

SNC's satellite slot was then purchased by Ted Turner to launch Headline News into further additional homes.

Soane included many members of the Royal Academy as friends including J. M. W. Turner, who was professor of drawing at the Royal Academy, with whom he spent the Christmas after his wife's death as well as owning three works by the artist ; John Flaxman was an old friend, he was professor of sculpture at the Royal Academy and Soane also acquired several plastercasts of Flaxman's work for his museum ; Thomas Banks again Soane owned sculptures by him ; Thomas Lawrence who painted Soane's portrait ; despite falling out with his old master, George Dance the Younger, they were firm friends after his death Soane purchased Dance's drawings ; after the death of his other teacher Henry Holland, Soane tried to buy his drawings and papers, but found they had been destroyed, but did purchase some of his antique sculptures ; despite being rivals Soane got on with fellow architect John Nash, they often dined together.

During 1970, Ted Turner, then owner of a successful Atlanta-based outdoor advertising company, purchased WJRJ-Atlanta, Channel 17, a small, struggling Ultra High Frequency station, and renamed it WTCG, for parent company Turner Communications Group.

During May 2006, Turner Broadcasting, which already owned 50 % of Court TV, purchased the remaining half from Liberty Media.

In 1991, Turner Entertainment's parent Turner Broadcasting purchased Hanna-Barbera and its extensive animated library including The Jetsons, Yogi Bear, Scooby-Doo, The Flintstones, Huckleberry Hound, Top Cat, and Quick Draw McGraw ( along with most of the Ruby-Spears library up to 1991 ).

When Turner bought out JCP in 1988, the Omni became the " home arena " for the NWA / WCW.

The CNN Center opened in 1976 as the Omni International complex, which was a development by Cousins Properties Inc. that was unsuccessful until CNN moved its headquarters there in 1987 from its Midtown Atlanta site ( old home of the Progressive Club on 1050 Techwood Drive and home to Turner Broadcasting System ).

The CNN Center also houses a major hotel ( an Omni Hotels franchise owned by Turner Broadcasting, now Time Warner ) and a large atrium food court frequented by local business employees, tourists, event goers from Philips Arena and the Georgia Dome, and conference attendees from the Georgia World Congress Center.

A local subscription service, KTV carries satellite channels such as ESPN, Discovery CNN International and Turner Classic Movies ( from the United States ) and BBC World from the United Kingdom.

* Edward A. L. Turner ( 2010 ) Why Has the Number of International Non-Governmental Organizations Exploded since 1960 ?, Cliodynamics, 1, ( 1 ).

The Port Huron Flags played in the original International Hockey League from 1962-1981, winning three Turner Cup championships in 1966, 1971 and 1972.

The Colony provided facilities and inspiration to over 1500 artists, and produced performances by New York city based artists who resided there: Paul Zaloom, Charles Moore African Dancers, Sachiyo Ito Japanese Dance, Bread and Puppet Theatre, Eiko & Koma, Gail Conrad Tap Dance, the Chinese Acrobats of Taipei, the Brubecks, and many more, as well as the first US International Conference on Theatre Anthropology featuring key speakers Eugenio Barba, Richard Schechner, and Edith Turner.

* The pre-May 1986 MGM films released through United Artists ( and outside Anglo-America through Cinema International Corporation and United International Pictures ) are also now with WB / Turner Entertainment.

The NFL National Tournament continues to be held annually, featuring competition in Policy Debate, Lincoln Douglas Debate, Legislative Debate, Public Forum ( Ted Turner ) Debate, United States Extemporaneous Speaking, International Extemporaneous Speaking, Original Oratory, Dramatic Interpretation, Humorous Interpretation, Duo Interpretation, Commentary, Impromptu Speaking, Prose Reading, Poetry Reading, Expository Speaking and Storytelling.

Recent Presidents and Officers have continued to move into the law, academia, the media and politics, including British International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell, author and journalist Robert Harris, chairman of the Financial Services Authority Adair Turner, BBC sports broadcaster Clare Balding and Gavin Barwell as Head of Operations at Conservative Central Office.

In 2002, Princess Elizabeth received the first Nuclear Disarmament Forum Award, the Demiurgus Peace International, ( accompanying president Vladimir Putin, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Ted Turner and others ) for outstanding achievements in the field of strengthening peace among nations in Zug, Switzerland.

Held at the same time were several other U. S. citizens, including Thomas Sutherland, an administrator at the American University of Beirut ; Catholic priest, Father Lawrence Jenco ; Presbyterian minister Benjamin Wier ; Jerry Levin, CNN's Beirut bureau chief ; Frank Reed, head of the Lebanese International School ; Joseph Cicippio, deputy controller of the American University of Beirut ; Edward Tracey, an itinerant poet ; and Professors Alann Steen, Jesse Turner, and Robert Polhill.

He then spent two seasons with the Toledo Goaldiggers of the International Hockey League, winning the rookie of the year award in 1978 and leading the team to the Turner Cup championship in that year.

* 1957: Wallace Turner and William Lambert, Portland Oregonian, " for their expose of vice and corruption in Portland involving some municipal officials and officers of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America, Western Conference.

Sutter began his coaching career in the International Hockey League, where he coached the Saginaw Hawks and led the Indianapolis Ice to the Turner Cup.

In the spring of 1959, Curtis Turner returned to Charlotte, North Carolina after viewing Bill France Sr .' s Daytona International Speedway and had an idea of building a race track in the surrounding area.

In late 2005, Turner Broadcasting made clear that they were considering launching several new channels in the Nordic region ( to join their then-current channel Turner Classic Movies, Cartoon Network, and CNN International ).

* Arkar Latt, operations manager of Turner International, which oversaw the construction of the Burj Dubai

Founded as Roscoe Turner Airlines, the company was based at Weir-Cook Airport ( now Indianapolis International Airport ) in Indianapolis, IN.

John W. Milton was Project Director on behalf of Turner International Inc ( New York ), a subsidiary of Turner Construction.

He then served as Minister of International Trade in 1984 in the short-lived government of Trudeau's successor, John Turner.

In 1999, Powell began working for CablePulse 24 as a business reporter and founded media and consulting company Powell International Entertainment Inc. ( PIE Inc .) which produced features with personalities such as Nelson Mandela, Rubin ' Hurricane ' Carter, Sir Richard Branson, Tim Burton, and Steven Spielberg, Tom Cruise, Janet Jackson, Tina Turner, Rosie O ' Donnell and Prince Charles.

The Turner Cup was the championship trophy of the International Hockey League.

* Elementary Strong Functional Programming, D. A. Turner, in R. Plasmeijer, P. Hartel, eds, " First International Symposium on Functional Programming Languages in Education ", Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 1022, pages 1 – 13, Springer-Verlag, 1996.