BREAKING: CNN founder Ted Turner dies at 87

and founder of CNN Ted Turner has passed away. The business titan built a media empire that included the first 24 hour news channel with CNN and launched other channels, including TBS, TNT and Cartoon network. I have to say, as someone who worked at CNN almost a decade, cable news would not be cable news without Ted Turner.He paved the way and he charted a path well beyond TV. Turner's numerous business holdings at one point also included the Atlanta Braves. When they won the World Series in 1995, he was al ...