Ted Turner, the billionaire who bet $1 billion that the world needed a 24-hour news channel and turned out to be right, dies at 87
Billionaires Africa | 06.05.2026 21:40
Ted Turner, the Atlanta billionaire who launched CNN on June 1, 1980 and created the first 24-hour television news channel at a time when virtually no one in the broadcast industry believed such a thing could work or survive, died peacefully on Wednesday surrounded by his family, Turner Enterprises announced. He was 87.
