Late CNN Founder Ted Turner Once Attempted a Takeover of CBS, 40 Years Before CBS Owners' Bid to Acquire CNN

CNN founder Ted Turner, who died at 87 on Wednesday, May 6, pursued a hostile takeover of the much-bigger CBS operation just a few years after launching the world’s first 24-hour cable news network —

Breaking the rules of TV, baseball — and monogamy: Inside the wild and woolly life of CNN founder Ted Turner

The Mouth of the South has gone silent. Ted Turner, the man who founded CNN — the first 24-hour news channel — in 1980, died Wednesday at age 87, of complications related to Lewy body dementia. Few billionaires knew how to have as much fun with money,

‘News will be the star’: Ted Turner’s extraordinary uphill battle to launch CNN

Banks scoffed. Potential partners rejected him. Newspaper owners mocked the idea. But Ted Turner persevered and won.