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Ted Turner, maverick media mogul and CNN founder, dies

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 television news, died peacefully Wednesday, surrounded by his family, according to a...

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

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

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Ted Turner, CNN founder, dies at his ranch near Tallahassee

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 visio...

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Ted Turner Used His Media Riches to Become One of America’s Biggest Landowners

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CNN Founder Ted Turner Lived With Lewy Body Dementia. What Is It?

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Ted Turner and Rupert Murdoch: A Media Feud for the Ages

“He believed deeply in the power of ideas, in doing things differently and in building platforms that could inform, inspire and connect people around the world,” said David Zaslav, the chief executive...

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‘This was not merely a television channel.’ Host reflects on Ted Turner’s legacy with Turner Classic Movies.

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Ted Turner’s Ex-Wives Explained as Jane Fonda Issues Tribute

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 a few years after launching the world’s first 24-hour cable news network —

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‘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.

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Breaking the rules of TV, baseball — and monogamy: Inside the wild and woolly life of CNN founder Ted Turner

The Mouth of the South has gone silent. Ted Turner, the man who founded CNN — the first 24-hour news channel — in 1980, died Wednesday at age 87, of complications related to Lewy body dementia. Few billionaires knew how to have as much fun with money,