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Ted Turner Built CNN on Debt and Near-Bankruptcy. Here Is Why You Should Not Try to Copy Him

Ted Turner died at 87, and obituaries celebrate how he built his empire. He took an indebted billboard company into a UHF station, then into the Atlanta Braves for $10 to $12 million. Then into a ...

CNN founder Ted Turner, a pioneer of cable TV news, dies at 87

Ted Turner, the media maverick and philanthropist who founded CNN, a pioneering 24-hour network that revolutionized ...

Ted Turner’s co-author Bill Burke reflects on mogul’s final years with Lewy body dementia after his recent death at 87

Turner is remembered for keeping his signature wit and sense of humor throughout his life ...

Ted Turner: The pugnacious media mogul who founded CNN

Ted Turner made television news a pervasive presence. Before he started the first 24-hour cable news channel, the Cable News ...
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Potential Pitfalls in Ted Turner’s Estate

Ted Turner's heirs now control his vast estate, but a key tax promise may not be legally enforceable after his passing ...

'A trailblazer, a rabble-rouser, a do-gooder': CNN founder Ted Turner dies at 87

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Ted Turner’s eerie CNN ‘doomsday video’ — only to be aired when the world ends — resurfaces after media mogul’s death

The late media mogul -- who died Wednesday at 87 -- secretly commissioned a chilling “doomsday video” decades ago.

Ted Turner, media tycoon who founded CNN, dies at age 87

Ted Turner built a media empire that included cable channels CNN, TBS and TNT, and he owned the Atlanta Braves for 20 years.
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CNN founder Ted Turner, a brash and outspoken television pioneer, has died at age 87

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 ...
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Private services to be held Wednedsay for Bobby Cox, Ted Turner

Private services will be held Wednesday for former Atlanta Braves manager Bobby Cox and CNN founder Ted Turner. Both died ...
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Ted Turner’s apartment above former CNN Center frozen in time

A spiral staircase leads to the small apartment Turner called home during CNN’s early years in the 1980s.

Ted Turner, media mogul who founded CNN, dead at 87

Ted Turner, the media mogul behind CNN, which revolutionized TV news as the first 24-hour cable network, died Wednesday at 87 ...