Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. My heart lurched when I learned that Ted Turner, CNN founder, media mogul and philanthropist, died May 6 at age 87 after a ...

Ted Turner, the man who made cable news what it is today, has died. He was 87 years old. Read more trending news CNN announced his death on Wednesday, citing a release from Turner Enterprises. Turner ...

Ted Turner, the media mogul who created CNN and other lodestars of cable TV, died at his ranch in Jefferson County, Florida – his retreat from Atlanta and the media spotlight the opinionated and ...

"The Mouth of the South" overcame an Ivy League expulsion, military service and his father's suicide to revolutionize cable television and reshape global philanthropy.

Media mogul Ted Turner, founder of CNN, died at 87. His $2.8 billion fortune, vast media empire, philanthropy and global ...

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 ...

NEW YORK(AP) — Ted Turner could never be defined by just one role. He was a media mogul, philanthropist and conservationist. A yachtsman who won boating’s most famous race and owner of a baseball team ...

Ted Turner, the business magnate who founded CNN and Turner Broadcasting System, has died. He was 87. Turner Enterprises announced the news, reporting the billionaire entrepreneur and noted ...

Ted Turner, a brash television pioneer who raced yachts, owned huge chunks of the American West and transformed the news ...

Ted Turner, the former owner of the Atlanta Braves, founder of CNN, philanthropist and media mogul who changed the news landscape in America, has died at the age of 87. Turner Enterprises released a ...