https://www.reuters.com/business/cnn-founder-ted-turner-dead-87-2026-05-06/WASHINGTON, May 6 (Reuters) - 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 release from Turner Enterprises. He was 87.No cause of death was given.In September 2018 Turner revealed that he had Lewy body dementia, a degenerative nerve disease.One nickname was not enough for a personality as roguish and bold as Turner's. He was known variously as the "Mouth of the South," "Captain Outrageous," and "Terrible Ted."He became a billionaire by taking over his father's billboard business, buying a television station in 1970 and parlaying that into what would become a vast ground-breaking television group.Turner became one of the most powerful figures in U.S. media and entertainment, his networks specializing in news, sports, re-runs, and old movies. But he did not stop there. He added the MGM/UA movie studio to his portfolio before making an even bigger move - merging his Turner Broadcasting System with Time Warner in 1996.
Turner headed the new company's cable networks division and was its leading shareholder, but he had trouble fitting into a corporate system after decades of free-wheeling as his own boss. He eventually lost control of his networks.Turner also became one of the world's leading environmentalists, one of the largest land owners in the United States, and a major philanthropist, giving $1 billion to the United Nations.With a slender mustache, gap-toothed grin, dimpled chin and mischievous glint in his eye, Turner pursued a range of passions. In the 1970s he owned the Atlanta Braves baseball team and the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association and skippered his yacht the Courageous to the America's Cup. The many women in his life included Oscar-winning actress Jane Fonda.In 1986 he started the Goodwill Games, an Olympic-like competition, and two years later bought a wrestling organization that provided more TV content. His concerns about nuclear war led him to co-found the Nuclear Threat Initiative in 2001.Forbes estimates Turner's fortune at $2.8 billion."If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect," he once said.
Imagine if he had beaten Rupert Murdoch to death in 1983 like he wanted to do.The world would be a better place in every conceivable way.
Cartoon Network was fundamental to so many of our childhoods. May not have agreed with everything he did, but I'll still pay my respects.
>>1512554guy looks like a human trafficker.look at that mustache and creepy fingers.
>>1512554who tf still uses words like "outspoken"same illiterates who say "mentality"
>>1512578the same people who use "aging" to describe actors and athletes.PROTIP: everyone who is still alive is "aging", assholes.
Ted was what they used to call a "limousine liberal". He married Jane Fonda, he supported left wing causes. He bought a cable network. He bought up a shitload of land out West. He was a pure capitalist but pretended to be a liberal.
>>1512554Press S to spit.
>>1512584Dude was unintentionally responsible for the creation of MEGA BABIES after screwing over the SWAT Kats creators. Here's a S for that alone.
>>1512578People who know what those words mean, I'd assume.
>>1512581So he's a standard ruling class liggeral. They all fool their liggeral plebians.
>>1512612>still trying to force his personal 'liggeral' memeMan it's been over a year now. It isn't catching on. It's time to move on to something else.
>>1512568Why are white people like this?
>>1512554What do you think about Ted Turner?
Vince fears Ted TurnerHe is behind the creation of cable television networks such as TBS TNT CNN CN TCM and others
you just didn't know that ted turner married hanoi jane in 1991
>>1512616>MAGA Retard>move onbest we'll get is them still trying to force a meme while pretending not to know who Trump is
>>1512581Does that make John Fetterman one since after he had a stroke, he started shilling for Trump?
>>1512554And nothing of value was lost
Why is Teddy Turner wants to depopulate the entire planet, Because of Climate Change?
