Black Business When Channing Baker was in high school, his father, Ted Baker, a renowned Los Angeles builder By Curtis Bunn When Channing Baker was in high school, his father, Ted Baker, a renowned Los Angeles builder, would round up his son and friends and take them early on Saturday mornings to one of his construction sites to help for “10 to 15 minutes.” “That always turned into about 10 hours,” Channing Baker recalled, laughing.