Ted Turner was a sportsman of all types, a world champion in sailing and a World Series-winning owner in baseball. He famously owned the Atlanta Braves, leveraging his ownership of the TBS ...

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, 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 ...

The swashbuckling founder of CNN was redeemed by his vulnerabilities. Ted Turner at a press conference in 1985. Ted Turner, thrice married and a notorious womanizer, had many exes, the most famous of ...

Ted Turner speaking at the 2nd Annual Social Good Summit in New York city on Sept. 19, 2011. Reporter Ted Turner, the man who transformed television news by founding CNN as the first 24-hour cable ...

Robert Edward Turner III was born on Nov. 19, 1938, in Cincinnati. When he was 9, his family relocated to Savannah, Georgia, where his father was building a billboard business. Turner enrolled at ...

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 ...

The media mogul, who died this week, amassed roughly two million acres and revived entire ecosystems. By Ronda Kaysen Kevin Draper and Jack Healy Ted Turner, the media mogul who died on Wednesday at ...