Ted Turner, CNN Founder and Cable TV Pioneer, Dies at 87
Turner Enterprises said he died peacefully at home, and CNN said his 24-hour cable news network reshaped television and news coverage.
- Ted Turner, the founder of CNN and a media pioneer, died at age 87, as announced by Turner Enterprises.
- He launched CNN in 1980, creating the first 24-hour news channel, and later founded TNT, TBS, and Cartoon Network.
- Turner was an Atlanta sports team owner and a philanthropist who supported land conservation efforts.
- Before his death, he revealed he had Lewy body dementia and devoted his later years to philanthropy and conservation.
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U.S. businessman Ted Turner, a 24-hour news pioneer and creator of CNN, passed away this Wednesday at age 87. In his last years of life, the tycoon had reduced his public appearances after revealing in 2018 that he was suffering from dementia by Lewy's bodies, a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects cognitive abilities, movement, and behavior.Turner revolutionized television and the media by launching in 1980 CNN, the first news cha…
TV pioneer Ted Turner dies at 87
CNN founder Ted Turner has died at age 87. His company Turner Enterprises says the television pioneer died Wednesday. Turner transformed an obscure Atlanta television station into the first satellite-based “superstation” and founded Cable News Network, the first 24-hour, all…
Ted Turner, founder of CNN, remembered for reimagining the news cycle
Ted Turner prepares to deliver remarks at the National Press Club October 9, 2006 in Washington, DC. A leader in business, entertainment and sports, Turner talked about his efforts at the United Nations, his philanthropy, the current state of journalism and his perspective on the nuclear test that North Korea says it completed. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)Media mogul and Atlanta businessman Ted Turner, who is credited with creating 2…
CNN founder Ted Turner has died at age 87
NEW YORK — Ted Turner could never be defined by just one role. He was a media mogul, philanthropist and conservationist. A yachtsman who won boating’s most famous race and owner of a baseball team that captured the World Series trophy. The brash television pioneer who died Wednesday made his greatest mark on the news business when he launched CNN nearly a half-century ago and with it, the 24-hour cable news cycle — a revolutionary moment that tr…
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