Editing Turner Broadcasting System (section)

=== Early history ===
Turner Broadcasting System traces its roots to a billboard company in [[Savannah, Georgia]], purchased by Robert Edward Turner II in the late 1940s.<ref name="CallMeTed">{{cite book|last1=Turner|first1=Ted|title=Call Me Ted|date=2008|publisher=Grand Central Publishing|location=New York|isbn=978-0-446-58189-9|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/callmeted00turn}}</ref> Turner grew the business, which later became known as Turner Advertising Company.<ref name="CallMeTed" /> Robert Edward Turner's son, [[Ted Turner]], inherited the company when the elder Turner died in 1963.<ref name="CallMeTed" /> After taking over the company, Ted Turner expanded the business into radio and television.<ref name="CallMeTed" />

Turner Broadcasting System  was incorporated in Georgia on May 12, 1965.<ref>{{cite web|title=Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.|url=https://ecorp.sos.ga.gov/BusinessSearch/BusinessInformation?businessId=703015&businessType=Domestic%20Profit%20Corporation|website=Georgia Corporations Division|publisher=Georgia Secretary of State|access-date=13 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180213195406/https://ecorp.sos.ga.gov/BusinessSearch/BusinessInformation?businessId=703015&businessType=Domestic%20Profit%20Corporation|archive-date=13 February 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>