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Turners Station was a station on the Louisville and Cincinnati Railroad. [2] A post office was established at Turners Station in 1879, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1995. [ 3 ]
His purchase of an Atlanta UHF station in 1970 began the Turner Broadcasting System. In 1980 he founded CNN, now one of the most prominent news networks in the world. Turner turned the Atlanta Braves baseball team into a nationally popular franchise (including winning the 1995 World Series under his ownership), and launched the charitable ...
An image of the rowhome in Turner Station where Henrietta Lacks, the progenitor of the immortal HeLa cell line, lived in the 1940s. Exposure time: 1/145 sec (0.0068965517241379) F-number: f/2.2: ISO speed rating: 40: Date and time of data generation: 13:19, 5 December 2014: Lens focal length: 4.8 mm: Latitude: 39° 14′ 7.54″ N: Longitude ...
Turner was known for several pioneering innovations in U.S. multichannel television, including its satellite uplink of local Atlanta independent station WTCG channel 17 as TBS—one of the first national "superstations", and its establishment of the Cable News Network —the first 24-hour news channel.
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On October 6, 1987, Ted Turner announced the launch of Turner Network Television (TNT)—his fifth basic cable network venture, following SuperStation TBS, CNN, Headline News (now HLN) and the short-lived Cable Music Channel—in a keynote address at the opening day of the Atlantic Cable Show in Atlantic City, New Jersey, stating that the ...
Charles Augustus Turner was born on April 2, 1877, in Lewisburg, West Virginia, to music professor T. M. Turner and Kate Grimes, who was the daughter of physician Gassaway Sellman Grimes. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] His mother Kate died in Lewisburg on October 14, 1888, and his brother Claude died in Lewisburg on September 5, 1889, at the age of 14, falling ...
Turner South was an American cable and satellite television network that was owned by the Turner Broadcasting System division of Time Warner.At its peak, Turner South reached approximately eight million subscribers across a six-state region comprising Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee, South Carolina, and portions of western North Carolina (roughly from Asheville to Charlotte).