Turner Field. CNN Center. TBS. TNT. For decades, Ted Turner’s media empire helped define Atlanta. As another merger reshapes what remains, we look back at the rise, transformation and fading of a hometown institution—and what it meant to those who grew up alongside it.
Turner Field is gone. CNN Center has been transformed. Turner Broadcasting disappeared through decades of corporate mergers. As another media megamerger reshapes Ted Turner’s former empire, one Atlanta writer looks back at growing up alongside the company that helped put Atlanta on the global media map.
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