{"id":222068,"date":"2026-05-06T15:36:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T15:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/222068\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T15:36:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T15:36:36","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-ted-turner-cnn-founder-dead-at-87-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/222068\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | 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":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-222068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222068","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=222068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222068\/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=222068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}