Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ted Turner, who launched CNN and reshaped cable news, died at age 87 on Wednesday, May 6, according to Turner Enterprises and CNN.

Turner founded CNN in 1980, which was the nation’s first 24-hour cable news network.

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Ted Turner gave away more than $1.3 billion to charitable causes over his lifetime, a staggering figure he once described as one of his proudest accomplishments, RadarOnline.com can reveal. The CNN ...

American media mogul Ted Turner speaks from a lectern at the Copacabana Club in New York on Nov. 21, 1985. Longtime CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite on March 9, 1981. Four decades before CBS boss David ...

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After over 60 years of building out a multimedia empire, CNNfounder Ted Turner has died. As first reported by CNN, Turner has died at the age of 87. At the time of this writing, no official cause of ...

CNN Founder Ted Turner, a Brash and Outspoken Television Pioneer, Dies at Age 87 NEW YORK (AP) — Ted Turner, a brash television pioneer who raced yachts, owned huge chunks of the American West and ...

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 ...