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Media Man: Ted Turner's Improbable Empire by Ken Auletta (W. W. Norton, 2004) ISBN 0-393-05168-4; Clash of the Titans: How the Unbridled Ambition of Ted Turner and Rupert Murdoch Has Created Global Empires that Control What We Read and Watch Each Day by Richard Hack (New Millennium Press, 2003) ISBN 1-893224-60-0
Vermejo Park Ranch, [1] Vermejo Ranch, or Vermejo, is a 550,000-acre (220,000 ha) nature reserve and guest ranch in northeastern New Mexico and southern Colorado.Ted Turner Reserves, the luxury hospitality company founded by Ted Turner, includes conservation research and ecosystem restoration along with guest operations. [1]
Founded by Eric O'Keefe and Eddie Lee Rider Jr, The Land Report was first published in April 2007 and bills itself as "The Magazine of the American Landowner." Its premier issue included the inaugural Land Report 100 and was the subject of a feature article in The Wall Street Journal . [ 15 ]
Ted Turner/Turner Broadcasting: January 6, 1976–October 1996 [19] Time Warner: October 1996–May 16, 2007 Liberty Media: May 16, 2007–August 3, 2023 [20] Presidents
The property is almost surrounded by Ted Turner's 32,000-acre Avalon plantation. [2] A paved driveway lined with live oaks leads to the house, about a 10-minute drive to Interstate 10. The heavily treed, rolling hills surrounding the compound are a diverse habitat for wildlife including whitetail deer, turkeys, quail and doves.
As of 1 February 2011, he surpassed Ted Turner as the largest individual private landowner in the US, owning 2,200,000 acres (8,900 km 2) of land, much of which is in Maine, Colorado, New Mexico, and Wyoming. [25]
According to Larry McMutry, the film took eighteen years to get made and by the time it did, he was off the project. He later wrote, "I never saw it but understand it was pretty good. The fact that it did finally get made was because Ted Turner acquired a big ranch in Montana and was seeking tax write-offs.
The company was founded by media mogul and bison rancher Ted Turner, along with restaurateur George McKerrow Jr., with the help of corporate chef Chris Raucci, as a for-profit effort to stop the extinction of the American bison. The first Ted's Montana Grill opened in January 2002 in Columbus, Ohio. [1] Today it has 39 restaurants in 16 states.