This is Not Sam Wrestling.

Introducing your host from New York, here is Sam Roberts.

Oh yes, oh yes. Welcome, welcome, welcome. Welcome to a Not Sam Wrestling update.

Big news in the world of professional

wrestling this week. We learned of the death of Ted Turner. We lost an absolute icon in the world of

business, in the world of media. And for our purposes, the world of professional wrestling as well.

Ted Turner was the archetype of a mogul in his era in the United States of America.

And one of the many things that he owned was world championship wrestling.

Upon finding out about the loss of Ted Turner, we took it to Not Sam Wrestling Live on

Sirius XM to break down what he did in the world of professional wrestling and why Ted Turner was and always will be so important.

The news broke this morning that Ted Turner passed away.

Ted Turner dead at 87 years old.

And, you know, I mean, just in terms of American culture, Ted Turner is like such an important figure, not just because of, you know, I mean, Ted Turner, like, he bought an Atlanta-based television station in whenever it was. Like the, I want to say the early 80s.

1970.

970?

7-0 was his first venture into TV.

And he just becomes this mogul building and building to the point that he found this Atlanta station and built it into WTBS, the super station.

And kind of built, he's such an important media figure for the period of time specifically when cable television is becoming a thing. And cable television becoming a thing

is so important because it was really the first time that everybody had access to kind of

one channel that was giving one set of information all at the same time, meaning that you always

had shows that everybody

could watch, right? But it was network television. So you had networks syndicated throughout the

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