{"id":82742,"date":"2026-05-06T10:42:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T14:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=82742"},"modified":"2026-05-06T10:42:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T14:42:01","slug":"cnn-founder-ted-turner-a-pioneer-of-cable-tv-news-dies-at-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/cnn-founder-ted-turner-a-pioneer-of-cable-tv-news-dies-at-87\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN Founder Ted Turner, A Pioneer Of Cable TV News, Dies At 87"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>CNN<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/150929003523-ted-turner-lifetime-achievement.jpg?q=w_4876,h_2742,x_0,y_254,c_crop\/h_720,w_1280\/w_256\" alt=\"ted turner lifetime achievement\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmal37dbd005c28nod4uf111r@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">Ted Turner, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/01\/06\/us\/ted-turner-cnn-founder-pneumonia\/index.html\">media maverick<\/a>\u00a0and philanthropist who founded CNN, a pioneering 24-hour network that revolutionized television news, died peacefully Wednesday, surrounded by his family, according to a news release from Turner Enterprises. He was 87.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmou4tgj0000b3b6q83rj98uu@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">The Ohio-born Atlanta businessman, nicknamed \u201cThe Mouth of the South\u201d for his outspoken nature, built a media empire that encompassed cable\u2019s first superstation and popular channels for movies and cartoons, plus professional sports teams like the Atlanta Braves.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1778064121\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"CNN Founder Ted Turner, A Pioneer Of Cable TV News, Dies At 87\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From CNN: Ted Turner, the\u00a0media maverick\u00a0and philanthropist who founded CNN, a pioneering 24-hour network that revolutionized television news, died peacefully.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82742","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82743,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82742\/revisions\/82743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}