Ted Kennedy

Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy was an Americuban-British politician and businessman. Son of Joseph P. Kennedy and brother to Robert F. Kennedy and Sean Cinnéide, he followed in their footsteps, and became a representative. With the ascendance of his brother to the Presidency, he became a power player in Congress, and was instrumental in the formation of the Progressive Party. However, his rising political star was cut short one August night in 1968, when he mysteriously disappeared after telling his wife that he had last minute business to attend to. They eventually found his car, and after a day of searching, he was found in the home of his mistress. The fallout cost Kennedy his seat and his marriage.

His father forced him to decamp to London for the time being, fearing that his brother's reputation would be hurt by proxy. Kennedy slowly developed business interests in the Franco-British Union, and in 1970, Kennedy purchased the struggling newspaper The Daily Mirror from the Farnsworth family. Already a working class paper, Kennedy soon moved it as the paper for the Union for Progress faction, putting in direct opposition to Howard Hughes' Daily Mail and Rupert Murdoch's The Sun. His success at the Mirror would embolden Ted to embrace the role of media mogul. Using the then-novel technology of satellite television, he would form Global News Inc., the first 24-hour news station, in 1980, immediately making his mark on Franco-British media during the Long 80's. He would parlay this success with GNN by purchasing MGM in 1985 and with it, its library of films and TV shows. Later, following the death of its president and Kennedy's personal friend Frank McCarthy in 1990, Kennedy purchased Santiago Studios, integrating it and its library with MGM. In 1991, after acquiring the properties of one of his rivals, the late scandal-ridden Robert Maxwell, he eventually formed the Kennedy Group conglomerate to manage his interests, including the Galaxy Network (reworked from "MGM-TV"). He would become one of the most powerful media figures in the FBU as a result, helping bankroll and support Tony Blair's rise to power, among other things.

He was the only Kennedy to visit his brother Sean Cinneide in the United Republics. Kennedy's Franco-British citizenship allowed him to make several visits to the country, and made an attempt to contact his estranged brother, which succeeded in 1975.