Ted Turner. >> They called him the mouth of the South. >> Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise.>> Ted Turner, a gutsy media titan that turned his father's billboard business into billions. >> That was my father's advice to me was, "Do not set goals that are achievable during your lifetime. Set goals that are too high." He saw a gold rush coming in cable and satellite TV. Going into debt to buy a small, failing Atlanta TV station, which he turned into TBS, calling it a super station.And ...

Ted Turner, the media mogul and CNN founder whom Forbes estimated was worth $2.8 billion at the time of his death, died on Wednesday at 87, according to a release from Turner Enterprise.Read more: https://t.co/XuMLpiNf5GPhoto: Ben Rose/Getty Images for UNICEF https://t.co/ohwRTsodJv ...

got some sad news to report. CNN's founder, cable pioneer Ted Turner. He has died at the age of 87, of course, uh really, you know, seen as one of the most important figures uh in the history of media over the let's call it the last 50 years.He basically helped create modern-day cable uh ecosystem as we know it. Of course, it's changed a lot in the last 10 to 15 years, but um creator of CNN uh and any number of other networks, TBN, the Super Station, um and so many other assets that he owned, obviously sell ...

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 ...

Ted Turner, the billionaire media entrepreneur and philanthropist who launched the 24-hour cable TV news revolution when he founded CNN in 1980, has died. He was 87. https://t.co/CboJPpPBiC https://t.co/DOKk9QM120 ...

Ted Turner, the billionaire media entrepreneur and philanthropist who launched the 24-hour cable TV news revolution when he founded CNN in 1980, has died. He was 87. https://t.co/61G2Kuh8Vz https://t.co/SqGmFOE48R ...

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