Ted Turner | 60 Minutes Archive

Summary

The transcript focuses on Ted Turner's experience and perspective after resigning from his vice chairman role at AOL Time Warner, discussing his feelings about the AOL-Time Warner merger and its subsequent financial decline. Turner candidly reflects on his diminished influence at the company he helped create, describing his current role as a "title without portfolio" and acknowledging that he lost seven or eight billion dollars from the merger's stock performance. The segment reveals Turner's characteristic frankness and his complex emotional journey from initial excitement about the merger to disappointment and disengagement from the company.