From a shoestring startup in Atlanta, Ted Turner launched CNN, pioneering 24-hour cable news and transforming the global media landscape.

He built a "superstation" into a media empire, owned a baseball team, married Jane Fonda and donated $1 billion to the United Nations.

Banks scoffed. Potential partners rejected him. Newspaper owners mocked the idea. But Ted Turner persevered and won. Turner faced an extraordinary uphill battle to launch CNN in 1980. Before the ...

CNN founder and business mogul Ted Turner has died at age 87. Turner pioneered the media industry with the creation of a 24-hour cable news network in 1980. Turner revealed a diagnosis of Lewy body ...

The CBS News chief is expected to rejigger '60 Minutes' and 'CBS Mornings' over the next few months, even as a Paramount-Warner Bros. merger would kickstart an even larger reorg.

Ted Turner, the brash sportsman and entrepreneur whose ambition and instincts led to a media empire that included groundbreaking news network CNN, has died, CNN reported on Wednesday citing a press ...