billboard

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Born in Cincinnati, Turner inherited a billboard company from his father that he turned into Turner Broadcasting System, an Atlanta-based television and movie giant that he eventually sold to Time Warner in 1995.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

The family moved to Georgia, and as a young man Turner began doing odd jobs for the billboard company his father had set up, cutting weeds in front of the signs and helping the painters.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026

Using the billboard business as a springboard into new industries, Turner started buying local radio stations across the South in the late 1960s.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026

He began his career by taking over the successful family billboard company when his father took his own life, then bought a radio station in Atlanta, Georgia.

From BBC • May 6, 2026

On our ride into Havana, I got my first glimpse of a political billboard, an enlarged version of the famous photograph of the Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara wearing a beret.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French