Ted Turner, the maverick businessman and philanthropist who turned a financially struggling Atlanta TV station into a media empire around CNN, the first 24-hour cable news station, has died. He was 87 ...

Ted Turner was truly one of a kind. Restless, brash, virtually unstoppable, he created a new path for how the world learnt ...

The cable TV pioneer and CNN founder, who died Wednesday at 87, lived his first nine years on Gholson Avenue in Avondale. His Turner Broadcasting created the 24-hour news cycle when he launched the ...

Over the 11 years I was with Ted, we covered so many other stories—the fall of the Soviet Union, the O.J. Simpson trial, the Balkan wars, the impeachment of Bill Clinton, the Waco siege, the death of ...

Ted Turner, the media maverick and philanthropist who founded CNN, a pioneering 24-hour network that revolutionized television news, died peacefully Wednesday, surrounded by his family, according to a ...

Ted Turner, known for his pioneering influence on modern television and media, has left an indelible mark on the industry. A maverick by nature, Turner was the owner of the Atlanta Hawks and the ...

Ted Turner, the media mogul who created CNN and other lodestars of cable TV, died at his ranch in Jefferson County, Florida – his retreat from Atlanta and the media spotlight the opinionated and ...

Stay connected via Google News Global TV avatar, Ted Turner, whose audacious reasoning and business brinksmanship gave ...

He built a "superstation" into a media empire, owned a baseball team, married Jane Fonda and donated $1 billion to the United Nations.

ATLANTA - Ted Turner, the outspoken media maverick who revolutionized global television by founding CNN, died Wednesday at 87 years old. Turner Enterprises confirmed his death in a news release to CNN ...