JUST BROKE: Ted Turner to resign from AOL Time Warner

[bmacd]

big news, indeed.

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[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: numark
Wow...never thought I'd see the day that AOL both lost Ted Turner and had earnings of -$22.15. Interesting to see how many people could have predicted this at the time of the merger.

I did and so did many others. It is actually a $100 Billion lost in 2002.

I was one of the original AOL subscribers as I was an Engineer at Hayes Modems and helped write the Modem strings and commands for all Modems to get on the AOL Network, not just Hayes units. That was why I was given an "Overhead" account way back when. My account was taken away from me because of the State case but I later got the account back but a paid account.

I had DSL so I got the (BYO) Bring Your Own access to get into the AOL Network. They were only charging $4.95 a month which was reasonable to access the content and services. Then they started raising the rates (first to $9.95 a month, then $14.95) and actually sent an E-mail out that they didn't want Bring Your Own access accounts at all. They had a bird brained plan that they were going to convert everyone into getting AOL DSL services at their crazy high rates. So they actually shut down and turned away thousands of monthly recurring revenue accounts, so you think this is a surprise of 100 billion loss? I wrote about this early last year when they did this.

 

[A5]

Originally posted by: tarheelmm
wonder if he will sell the Braves too?

He has nothing to do with them anymore...AOLTW owns the team; hope they sell the Braves BACK to Turner...

 

[T2T III]

Originally posted by: aircooled
There was nothing to colorize, so he was bored anyway....

[sarchasm]

Oh, but there is room for more color in the AOL 9.0 release.

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[AU Tiger]

Maybe he will purchase the Braves back from AOL Time Warner so that they can run under a larger budget than what AOL Time Warner imposes. It sucks that the Braves were included when Ted sold out to Time Warner.

 

[T2T III]

Does anyone remember the mud-slinging between Fox's Rupert Murdoch and Ted Turner a few years back? Ted was publically feuding with Rupert and Rupert indicated that Ted Turner was taking anti-depressant medication. I was quite a mess - but, funny to watch from the side-lines because two multi-million dollar people were duking it out.

 

[Pepsei]

Time for everyone to jump to Netzero... it's cheaper...

If you don't have cable or dsl...

 

[T2T III]

Originally posted by: Pepsei
Time for everyone to jump to Netzero... it's cheaper...

If you don't have cable or dsl...

Or, Juno for $9.95. NetZero has a funky dial-up interface and takes too long to connect and disconnect (in my opinion.) Has anyone seen the Juno commercial where two people are chatting on AOL's Instant Messenger? I thought it was funny because the AOL-er was bragging that they have AOL IM and they only pay $23.95 a month for their account. The Juno subscriber then responds that they also have AOL IM and only pay $9.95 a month. Hopefully, commercials like this get AOL subscribers to wake up - and consider other, better Internet Service Providers.