Ted Turner, Architect of 24-Hour News, Dies at 87
Ted Turner, the Georgia-born media mogul who launched CNN in 1980 and built a sprawling cable empire, died at 87 after a career that transformed real-time, around-the-clock news. He expanded from channels and sports franchises to CNN International and non-news networks, sold his empire to Time Warner, and became a major philanthropist with the United Nations Foundation and conservation efforts, while also weathering personal upheavals including a high-profile marriage to Jane Fonda and the AOL-Time Warner merger fallout.
