One of the great innovators of television who founded CNN, the first 24-hour cable news channel, and built a vast media empire If Orson Welles’s 1941 film Citizen Kane had been made as a TV movie 60 ...

Few people exit a life quite the way Ted Turner entered it: loudly, on their own terms, and impossible to ignore. The man who bet everything on a 24-hour cable news channel when no one believed the ...

Ted Turner was called many things during his 87 years on earth, including “cable pioneer,” “Mouth of the South,” “Captain Courageous,” and, of course, “CNN founder.” All of those descriptors are apt ...

Ted Turner never waited for permission. That instinct, more than anything, defined both his career and the modern media landscape that followed it. Turner, the founder of CNN and one of the most ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CNN founder Ted Turner, who died Wednesday at 87, spent the early years of his career in Macon. Turner worked for his father’s ...

Ted Turner's legacy as a businessman and outspoken environmentalist will continue after his death at 87. Turner died "surrounded by his family" Wednesday, May 6, his company Turner Enterprises ...

Ted Turner made television news a pervasive presence. Before he started the first 24-hour cable news channel, the Cable News Network, in 1980, Americans got their news from the three major networks’ 6 ...

The media entrepreneur Ted Turner died this month at age 87. The obituaries barely mention, or completely ignore, that Turner was diagnosed with bipolar illness and treated with lithium. Michael ...