[DOC] [TLE] Ted Turner & 1970s | The Pop History Dig [PAR] Nov 29, 2008 ... Ted Turner was vilified by the press in the late 1970s and early 1980s ... used 
satellite capability to make a local TV station a superstation. ... He also later 
bought another UHF station in Charlotte, North Carolina. .... It took a long time. ..... 
she turned into a column titled Ted's Excellent Idea Turner's idea... [DOC] [TLE] The Museum of Broadcast Communications - Encyclopedia of ... [PAR] TBS began with Turner's purchase of failing Atlanta UHF station, WJRJ, in 1968. 
He immediately renamed the station WTCG (for Turner Communications ... The 
superstation was renamed WTBS in the late 1970s. ... "Ted Turner is Not Afraid to 
Turn His Personal Vision Into a Multimillion-Dollar Project for His Company. [DOC] [TLE] Ted Turner facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ... [PAR] He created the first "superstation" television station, WTBS, which broadcast 
nationwide ... He took his wife and daughter with him but left his son, Ted, behind 
in a ... one of his typical leaps of faith by buying the Atlanta UHF television station 
WJRJ, ... CNN originally included many long feature stories into its mix of news... [DOC] [TLE] Ted Turner, the Alexander the Great of Television - Slate [PAR] Nov 10, 2010 ... It didn't take long after that for Turner to develop grandiose ambitions ... could be, 
one that finally brought the medium invented in 1926 into an era of ... choices, he 
turned around Channel 17, the failing little UHF station in Atlanta. ... network as a 
"superstation"a single station available around the country. [DOC] [TLE] Ted Turner - Wikipedia [PAR] Robert Edward "Ted" Turner III (born November 19, 1938) is an American media 
mogul and philanthropist. As a businessman, he is known as founder of the 
Cable News Network (CNN), the first 24-hour cable news channel. In addition, he 
founded WTBS, which pioneered the superstation concept in ... Turner turned the 
Atlanta Braves baseball team into a nationally popular... [DOC] [TLE] Television in the United States - Wikipedia [PAR] Television is one of the major mass media of the United States. As of 2011, 
household .... Until the 1970s and 1980s, local stations supplemented network ... 
Raiders to air a made-for-television film in its scheduled time slot due to a failure 
in ... 6:30 to 7:00 p.m. in other areas), and lead into the networks' prime time 
schedules,... [DOC] [TLE] KTLA - Wikipedia [PAR] KTLA, channel 5, is a CW-affiliated television station located in Los Angeles, 
California, United ... The service never gelled into a true television network, but 
during KTLA's early years, .... The station's digital signal remained on its pre-
transition UHF channel 31, using PSIP ...... 3Formerly available as a regional 
superstation. [DOC] [TLE] My Beef With Big Media - 7 Cultural Mountains [PAR] That's how I was able to compete as a UHF station, although it was never easy. ... 
we were sending our signal across the nation, and the Superstation was born. ... 
But without the proper rules, healthy capitalist markets turn into sluggish ... I had 
tried and failed to buy a major broadcast network, but the repeal of fin-syn turned
... [DOC] [TLE] Turner, Ted - Young Rebel in Business, Turning on to Television [PAR] But during the 1970s and 1980s, he showed a knack for success in the television 
... In 1960, he took a position at the firm's office in Macon, Georgia. ... not reach 
many viewers, but Turner saw the station as a way to expand into television. He 
... In 1976, Turner launched his "Superstation," later changing the station's letters 
to... [DOC] [TLE] My Beef With Big Media - Digital Repository @ Maurer Law [PAR] Atlanta purchase turned into the Superstation; the Charlotte purchase- ... Federal 
Communications Commission (FCC) took seriously the ... That's how I was able 
to compete as a UHF station, although it was never ... because they

Question: He took a failing UHF station in the 1970s & turned it into a "Superstation"
Answer: Ted Turner