CNN Founder Ted Turner Dead at 87

Media mogul, and CNN founder, Ted Turner has died after battling dementia.

Turner Enterprises announced Ted died Wednesday morning. Back in 2018, he announced he’d been diagnosed with Lewy Body dementia. That announcement came shortly after his 80th birthday.

In addition to launching the Cable News Network in 1979,. Ted created a media empire that included TBS Superstation, TNT, the Cartoon Network, and at one time, most of MGM Studios’ film library.

Eventually, he merged his massive media holdings with Time Warner.

Nicknamed the “Mouth of the South,” Ted also bought the Atlanta Braves and the Atlanta Hawks in the early 1970s, and later World Championship Wrestling.