{"id":222027,"date":"2026-05-06T15:00:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T15:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/222027\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T15:00:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T15:00:33","slug":"news-12-bronx-ted-turner-cnn-founder-dead-at-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/222027\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Ted Turner Cnn Founder Dead At 87"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">CNN is reporting that its founder Ted Turner, the outspoken and often outrageous television pioneer, has died at age 87.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The network says Turner died Wednesday, citing a news release from Turner Enterprises.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Turner transformed an obscure Atlanta television station into the first satellite-based \u201csuperstation\u201d and founded Cable News Network, the first 24-hour, all news TV network.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The brash southerner owned sports teams, was a champion yacht racer and was married to actress Jane Fonda for 10 years. The onetime \u201cMouth of the South\u201d once quipped: \u201cIf only I had a little humility, I\u2019d be perfect.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CNN is reporting that its founder Ted Turner, the outspoken and often outrageous television pioneer, has died at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-222027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}