Ted Turner, CNN Founder and 24-Hour TV News Pioneer, Dies at 87

Ted Turner, the swashbuckling billionaire who founded CNN, the first 24-hour news channel in the world, and turned his company into one of the biggest US cable-television systems before selling it to Time Warner Inc., has died. He was 87.

He died on Wednesday, CNN reported, citing a news release from his company, Turner Enterprises. He had announced in 2018 that he was suffering from Lewy body dementia, a progressive brain disorder, and largely disappeared from public life after that.