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The founder of the American news network CNN, Ted Turner, has died at the age of 87, the channel announced...
Media pioneer Tendo Turner, who founded CNN, an innovative 24-hour network that revolutionized television news, died Wednesday, according to a statement from Turner Enterprises.
The media mogul had three wives: Judy Nye, from 1960 to 1964, Jane Shirley Smith, from 1965 to 1988, and Fonda, from 1991 to 2001.
Born Robert Edward Turner III on November 19, 1938, in Cincinnati, Turner moved to Savannah, Georgia, at the age of 9, where his father ran a billboard advertising company. After his father's death in 1963, Turner took over the family business, Turner Advertising. In 1970, he entered the television business by purchasing a struggling Atlanta-based UHF station.
Turner was nicknamed "The Mouth of the South" for his forthright and often provocative way of expressing his views. He built a media empire that included the first cable television "superstation," popular movie and cartoon channels, and professional sports teams such as the Atlanta Braves.
Turner was also an internationally renowned sailor, a philanthropist who founded the United Nations Foundation, an activist who promoted the global abolition of nuclear weapons, and an environmentalist who became one of the largest landowners in the United States. He played a key role in the reintroduction of bison to the American West and created the animated series Captain Planet to raise environmental awareness among children.
However, what really made him famous was his bold vision to broadcast news from around the world in real time, 24 hours a day, a venture that was ultimately crowned with success.
In 1991, Turner was named "Person of the Year" by Time magazine for "influencing the dynamics of events and transforming viewers in 150 countries into direct witnesses to history."
He later sold his networks to Time Warner and retired from the business, but continued to express his pride in CNN, which he called the "greatest achievement" of his life.
“Ted was a deeply committed and dedicated leader, courageous, fearless and always willing to follow his instincts and trust his judgment,” said Mark Thompson, president and CEO of CNN Worldwide, adding, “he was and will remain the guiding spirit of CNN. Ted is the giant on whose shoulders we stand, and today we will all pause to recognize his contribution to our lives and to the world.”
A little over a month before his 80th birthday in 2018, Turner revealed he was suffering from dementia, a progressive brain disorder. In early 2025, Turner was hospitalized with mild pneumonia before recovering at a rehabilitation center.
"Ted was a deeply committed, fearless, fearless leader and always willing to back his intuition and trust his judgment," CNN CEO Mark Thompson said in a statement.
"He was and always will be the guiding spirit of CNN. Ted is the giant on whose shoulders we stand, and we will all take a moment today to recognize him and his impact on our lives and the world."
His daughter, Laura Turner Seidel, in a 2021 interview with PEOPLE, called her father "a true Captain Planet."
Turner was also known as a sailor. He piloted his yacht, Courageous, to win the America's Cup in 1977 and was inducted into the America's Cup Hall of Fame in 1993.
He was the third-largest private landowner in America, with more than 2 million acres of land, according to the 2025 Land 100 Report. He owned 45,000 bison on 14 ranches in Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico and South Dakota. He also had three ranches in Argentina.
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