{"id":79325,"date":"2026-05-06T14:28:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T14:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/ted-turner-media-tycoon-who-founded-cnn-dies-at-age-87\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T14:28:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T14:28:53","slug":"ted-turner-media-tycoon-who-founded-cnn-dies-at-age-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/ted-turner-media-tycoon-who-founded-cnn-dies-at-age-87\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Turner, media tycoon who founded CNN, dies at age 87"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Ted Turner, the media tycoon who founded CNN and led an empire that also included cable channels TBS, TNT and Turner Classic Movies as well as the Atlanta Braves and Atlanta Hawks, has died, CNN reported Wednesday, citing a statement from his company, Turner Enterprises. He was 87.<\/p>\n<p>Turner was never a man to shy away from a challenge \u2014 on land or sea.<\/p>\n<p>He was the skipper who brought the <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/the-evolving-challenge-of-the-americas-cup\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">America&#8217;s Cup<\/a><\/span> yachting trophy back to the U.S. in 1977. He devoted hundreds of thousands of acres of land to save the <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/nature-up-close-bison-in-winter\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">American bison<\/a><\/span>. He owned the Atlanta Hawks for 19 years and the Atlanta Braves for 20, during which time the Braves won the 1995 World Series. And in 1980, he changed the way we all consumed news with the launch of CNN, the first 24-hour cable news network.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m a lot of different people, if you don&#8217;t know that by now,&#8221; Turner told CBS&#8217; &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; in 1979. &#8220;I&#8217;m a multifaceted person. I&#8217;ve got a lot of different personalities. You ought to see me at midnight on a full moon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/12\/01\/d8f68fa4-7d0b-4700-bbd7-52a1b9dea9b8\/thumbnail\/620x466\/5c4d287365817339d884dffbeb536387\/ted-turner-1321974588.jpg#\" alt=\"Ted Turner  \" height=\"466\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/12\/01\/d8f68fa4-7d0b-4700-bbd7-52a1b9dea9b8\/thumbnail\/620x466\/5c4d287365817339d884dffbeb536387\/ted-turner-1321974588.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/12\/01\/d8f68fa4-7d0b-4700-bbd7-52a1b9dea9b8\/thumbnail\/1240x932\/15bcc8b1e356db56009b9ff08266d2d2\/ted-turner-1321974588.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Ted Turner in a photo from 2008.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Michael Macor\/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He was a hard-drinking, cigar-smoking adventurer \u2014 with deep pockets.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I get thousands, millions and billions mixed up,&#8221; Turner said during a 2008 <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/ted-turner-looks-back\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">&#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; interview<\/a><\/span>. He was debating with Morley Safer whether he had lost nearly a million dollars a day or $10 million a day for two and a half years as the largest individual shareholder of AOL Time Warner. (It was the latter.) Then the corporate parent of what had been Turner&#8217;s empire, the media giant was <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/aol-time-warner-takes-45b-charge\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">hit hard<\/a><\/span> when the dot-com bubble burst in the early 2000s.<\/p>\n<p>Turner was also known for making off-color remarks, earning him numerous nicknames, including the Mouth From The South and Captain Outrageous. He was, for some, as unlikable as he was invincible.<\/p>\n<p>But in 2018, he disclosed to &#8220;CBS Sunday Morning&#8221; senior contributor Ted Koppel he was <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/ted-turner-never-a-quitter\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">fighting Lewy body dementia<\/a><\/span>, a progressive brain disorder.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a mild case of what people have as Alzheimer&#8217;s,&#8221; Turner told Koppel. &#8220;It&#8217;s similar to that, but not nearly as bad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Turner married three times, including his decadelong marriage to actor and activist <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/lily-tomlin-and-jane-fonda-on-acting-aging-and-activism\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Jane Fonda<\/a><\/span> from 1991 to 2001. In 2012, Turner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lcTK804tGS0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told CNN<\/a> that Fonda was probably the great love of his life, he hadn&#8217;t gotten over her and he doubted he ever would.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you love somebody, and you really love &#8217;em, you never stop loving &#8217;em,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Turner&#8217;s legacy will always be paired with CNN, and yet the gift he seemed most proud of was the natural habitats he saved by buying and protecting more wild acreage than almost anyone in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s tempting to call him a master of his domain, but he&#8217;d prefer caretaker. 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