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Ted Turner, the media tycoon who founded CNN and led an empire that besides included cablegram channels TBS, TNT and Turner Classic Movies arsenic good arsenic the Atlanta Braves and Atlanta Hawks, has died, CNN reported Wednesday, citing a connection from his company, Turner Enterprises. He was 87.
Turner was ne'er a antheral to shy distant from a situation — connected onshore oregon sea.
He was the skipper who brought the America's Cup yachting trophy backmost to the U.S. successful 1977. He devoted hundreds of thousands of acres of onshore to prevention the American bison. He owned the Atlanta Hawks for 19 years and the Atlanta Braves for 20, during which clip the Braves won the 1995 World Series. And successful 1980, helium changed the mode we each consumed quality with the motorboat of CNN, the archetypal 24-hour cablegram quality network.
"I'm a batch of antithetic people, if you don't cognize that by now," Turner told CBS' "60 Minutes" successful 1979. "I'm a multifaceted person. I've got a batch of antithetic personalities. You ought to spot maine astatine midnight connected a afloat moon."
Ted Turner successful a photograph from 2008.
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He was a hard-drinking, cigar-smoking adventurer — with heavy pockets.
"I get thousands, millions and billions mixed up," Turner said during a 2008 "60 Minutes" interview. He was debating with Morley Safer whether helium had mislaid astir a cardinal dollars a time oregon $10 cardinal a time for 2 and a fractional years arsenic the largest idiosyncratic shareholder of AOL Time Warner. (It was the latter.) Then the firm genitor of what had been Turner's empire, the media elephantine was hit hard erstwhile the dot-com bubble burst successful the aboriginal 2000s.
Turner was besides known for making off-color remarks, earning him galore nicknames, including the Mouth From The South and Captain Outrageous. He was, for some, arsenic unlikable arsenic helium was invincible.
But successful 2018, helium disclosed to "CBS Sunday Morning" elder contributor Ted Koppel helium was fighting Lewy assemblage dementia, a progressive encephalon disorder.
"It's a mild lawsuit of what radical person arsenic Alzheimer's," Turner told Koppel. "It's akin to that, but not astir arsenic bad."
Turner joined 3 times, including his decadelong matrimony to histrion and activistic Jane Fonda from 1991 to 2001. In 2012, Turner told CNN that Fonda was astir apt the large emotion of his life, helium hadn't gotten implicit her and helium doubted helium ever would.
"When you emotion somebody, and you truly emotion 'em, you ne'er halt loving 'em," helium said.
Turner's bequest volition ever beryllium paired with CNN, and yet the acquisition helium seemed astir arrogant of was the earthy habitats helium saved by buying and protecting much chaotic acreage than astir anyone successful the U.S.
It's tempting to telephone him a maestro of his domain, but he'd similar caretaker. We don't ain anything, helium said, we conscionable get it for a while.
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