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As one of the most important figures in media history, he oversaw a vast cable empire of news, sports and entertainment channels. By Jonathan Kandell Ted Turner, the media mogul who cut a brash and ...

“We won’t be signing off until the world ends,” Ted Turner said in 1980, just before the launch of his latest media venture. “We’ll be on, and we will cover the end of the world, live, and that will ...

There is no one in American history who has done more to change how the world gets its news, for better or for worse, than Ted Turner. His bold, audacious bet to launch CNN completely transformed the ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CNN founder Ted Turner, left, is interviewed by Tom Brokaw on "Meet the Press" in 2008. (Alex Wong / Getty Images ) Television ...

It began in the woods. A kernel of an idea to create CNN came to Ted Turner as he was taking a walk through nature, as former chief operating officer Steve Korn remembers it. Cable and satellite ...