Ted Turner, Billionaire Founder Of CNN And Cable News Pioneer, Dies At 87

Turner, whose ventures ranged from co-founding a nonprofit to reduce the threat of nuclear weapons to owning a number of Atlanta sports teams, was likely best known for founding CNN in 1980, the nation's first 24-hour, all-news cable channel.

Turner's all-hours approach to CNN, which he considered his "greatest achievement," revolutionized television news, and he reportedly declared at the network's founding that CNN "won't be signing off until the world ends."