Cable TV, sports mogul Ted Turner dead at 87 - TSN
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Cable TV mogul Ted Turner has died, Turner Enterprises announced on Wednesday. The Cincinnati-born pioneer of 24-hour cable news with the founding of CNN was 87. “Ted was an intensely involved and committed leader, intrepid, fearless and always willing to back a hunch and trust his own judgement,” CNN Worldwide chairman and CEO Mark Thompson said in a statement. “He was and always will be the presiding spirit of CNN. Ted is the giant on whose shoulders we stand, and we will all take a moment today to recognize him and his impact on our lives and the world.”Turner’s impact was also felt across the sports world. He purchased the Atlanta Braves in 1976 and was suspended for a season only a year later by then Major League Baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn for tampering in the pursuit of impending free-agent outfielder Gary Matthews then of the San Francisco Giants. Turner was a fixture at Braves games into the mid-1990s when he took a step back from the day-to-day operation of the club. Reaching the World Series in both 1991 and 1992, Turner’s Braves finally won a World Series in 1995. The team was sold as part of the Turner-Time Warner merger in 2007.
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