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ProfessorGAC

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7. I Credit Turner Greatly For...

Wed May 6, 2026, 02:42 PM

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...hastening the fall of the USSR.
With tge Superstation & CNN, he demonstrated to the moneyed world that there was profit in satellite television.
Once other outfits adopted his model, there was no way to fully block information about the west filtering into the soviet bloc.
He did it because he saw the money potential, but he accomplished much more than that.

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Rest In Peace, Ted. OLDMDDEM Yesterday #2

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I Credit Turner Greatly For... ProfessorGAC Yesterday #7

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