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 founded CNN in 1980 as the first 24-hour news network, transforming news delivery and inspiring competitors like Fox News and MSNBC.
- He died at age 87 and had revealed in 2018 that he had Lewy body dementia, a neurodegenerative disease.
- Turner was a major philanthropist who donated $1 billion to the United Nations and co-founded the Nuclear Threat Initiative focused on global nonproliferation.
- He was a large private landowner, environmentalist, and owned the Atlanta Braves and Hawks, influencing media, sports, and conservation.
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With CNN, Ted Turner invented the permanent flow of news in 1980 – and thus changed the media world. The founder of the American news channel was also a billionaire, sailor, provocateur, philanthropist and the ex-husband of Jane Fonda. On May 6, he died at the age of 87.
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