Ted Turner

　　R.E. (Ted) Turner is Chairman of the Board and President of Turner Broadcasting Systems (TBS). The Atlanta-based company is the leading supplier of entertainment and news programming for the cable television industry through its ownership of Cable News Network (CNN), CNN Headline News, CNN International, TBS Superstation, Turner Network Television (TNT), the Cartoon Network, SportSouth and TNT Latin America, which transmits programming simultaneously in three languages. Turner Broadcasting System also owns Turner Entertainment Corporation (TEC), which manages and markets a library of film and television properties, and the assets of Hanna-Barbera Productions.