It began in the woods. A kernel of an idea to create CNN came to Ted Turner as he was taking a walk through nature, as former chief operating officer Steve Korn remembers it. Cable and satellite ...

Ted Turner, who died on May 6, 2026, was bright, shrewd and, most of all, lucky. The cable TV visionary proved to be in the right place, at the right time, to change television and video news forever.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ted Turner speaking at the 2nd Annual Social Good Summit in New York city on Sept. 19, 2011. —Najlah Feanny - Corbis via Getty ...

NEW YORK — Ted Turner, a brash and outspoken television pioneer who raced yachts, owned huge chunks of the American West and transformed the news business by launching CNN and introducing the 24-hour ...

Ted Turner, the founder of CNN and Turner Broadcasting System and a larger-than-life entrepreneur who had an outsized and enduring impact on the development of TV industry, has died at 87. No cause of ...

Inaugural Asia edition of CNN's events franchise with opening remarks by H.E. Anutin Charnvirakul, Prime Minister of Thailand B.Grimm and Dangote announced as sponsors HONG KONG, July 2, 2026 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Ted Turner, a brash television pioneer who raced yachts, owned huge chunks of the American West and transformed the news business by launching CNN and introducing the 24-hour cable ...

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 ...