Die 6-teilige Doku-Serie Call Me Ted beschäftigt sich eingehend mit dem Leben und dem Lebenswerk von Ted Turner. Der 1938 geborene Geschäftsmann und Medienmogul ist enorm erfolgreich, gründet die Sender CNN und TNT und macht auch durch sein Privatleben auf sich aufmerksam. Die Serie gibt ihm Gelegenheit, sein Leben Revue passieren zu lassen.
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00:00Just came up with the idea that Superstation would be a good way to describe ourselves
00:04How come no one else has thought of that?
00:06How come nobody else thought the world was rounder Columbus came around Ted was a legend an American hero
00:14He wanted to build this entertainment empire
00:18It was groundbreaking
00:20The man is way more rock and roll than I am
00:23There's no such thing as certainty in this life
00:27Turner stepped in at 24 to save the business after it ran into financial problems and the father killed himself
00:34He bet his own company 25 times over a 25-year period and we were losing
00:41$200,000 a month. They said if you don't make a payment, you're gonna go dark
00:44Ted had to make this work. I
00:47Was the first station ever to go seven days a week 24 hours a day and that was the future
00:54I became a billionaire the biggest corporate merger in history
00:59Twice he was named Yachtsman of the Year. We got married and then everybody had to hurry up because we were gonna go hunting
01:07They just took your job away you just been fired I nearly bankrupted the company that's true
01:14I wish I didn't say some of the crazy things. I've said the mouth for myself
01:19He believed way way early in saving the climate
01:26It was a crazy life
01:29He said I want you to swing for the rafters every time just be sure you hit some home runs
01:38If we fail doesn't exist in my vocabulary