CNN founder Ted Turner, a pioneer of cable TV news, dies at 87

Ted Turner, the media maverick and philanthropist who founded CNN, a pioneering 24-hour network that revolutionized ...

CNN founder Ted Turner, a brash and outspoken television pioneer, has died at age 87

CNN founder and television pioneer Ted Turner has died at age 87. The network says he died Wednesday, citing a news release ...

'A trailblazer, a rabble-rouser, a do-gooder': CNN founder Ted Turner dies at 87

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Ted Turner’s apartment above former CNN Center frozen in time

A spiral staircase leads to the small apartment Turner called home during CNN’s early years in the 1980s.

Late CNN Founder Ted Turner Once Attempted a Takeover of CBS, 40 Years Before CBS Owners' Bid to Acquire CNN

CNN founder Ted Turner, who died at 87 on Wednesday, May 6, pursued a hostile takeover of the much-bigger CBS operation just ...

Ted Turner, media mogul who founded CNN, dead at 87

Ted Turner, the media mogul behind CNN, which revolutionized TV news as the first 24-hour cable network, died Wednesday at 87 ...

Ted Turner, maverick media mogul and CNN founder, dies at 87

Ted Turner, the maverick businessman and philanthropist who founded CNN, TBS and TNT, has died at 87.

Ted Turner, media tycoon who founded CNN, dies at age 87

Ted Turner built a media empire that included cable channels CNN, TBS and TNT, and he owned the Atlanta Braves for 20 years.

In creating CNN, Ted Turner changed the way we saw the world | The Excerpt

When CNN first launched in 1980, there were a lot of detractors. Some even derided it as “Chicken Noodle News” instead of ...

The World Was Watching Ted Turner’s CNN

The media titan’s innovations changed how people watched history unfold.

‘News will be the star’: Ted Turner’s extraordinary uphill battle to launch CNN

Banks scoffed. Potential partners rejected him. Newspaper owners mocked the idea. But Ted Turner persevered and won.

Jane Fonda, CNN alum pay tribute to Ted Turner

CNN staples and more — including those at Turner Classic Movies and Warner Bros. Discovery — are remembering the legacy of Ted Turner, the cable TV news pioneer who died Wednesday. He was 87.