Posted on 05/06/2026 7:22:52 AM PDT by V_TWIN
The billionaire died on Wednesday, according to the cable news network he founded.
Turner was nicknamed the 'Mouth of the South' for often being outspoken, and built a media empire that included movies and sports channels, as well as owning the Atlanta Braves.
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Thanks for posting.
Ted and Hanoi Jane.
RIP
I admired him when he was a young man sailing in America’s Cup Race in 1977.........
87 is a long run. May we all live at least that long.
RIP.
He did some useful and constructive things in a long and eventful life.
He did some unhelpful and unfortunate things in a long and eventful life.
It is perhaps unfortunate he lived long enough to see CNN become the absolute laughingstock and disaster it became after he sold it.
I will always give him credit for killing himself in a extra’s role in Gettysburg. As a confederate.
Is half of Montana now going to come back on the market?
So the most important event in his life was marrying Jane?
He did some positive things.
When cnn first started it was not as left leaning as it became and they did focus on news {as well as any body that pays "journalists" can}.
He created CNN as a hard news organization. But he also hated Christians and bullied them when he was president of CNN. Famously saying that Christianity was for “losers” and making fun of Catholics who came to the office with ashes on their foreheads for Ash Wednesday.
“He did some positive things.”
Agreed, but as it turns out, creating the 24 hour news cycle wasn’t one of ‘em.
Well, that’s between him and God but I guess he’s explaining all that right now.
Apparently Elliot Carver from “Tomorrow Never Dies” was based on Ted Turner.
Exactly.
I can say I miss the ‘around the world in 30 minutes’ news format. I cant stand all the opinion news formats today. I enjoy some opinion commentary (Rush being the best), but ‘fair and balanced’ opinion news is awful.
He was definitely a guy that was well ahead of his time, from starting CNN which at the time seemed like a crazy idea to buying the Atlanta Braves and putting them on his superstation and broadcasted all the games on cable.
I believe the guy’s name was Andy Messerschmidt who was a pitcher on the Braves, Turner put Channel on the back of his jersey and gave him the number 17, channel 17 was his superstation.
He also put a uniform on himself and sat in the dugout acting like the manager, eventually MLB cancelled that self-promotional idea.
As in all British detective shows, the important thing is the will
What become of the half of Montan that he owned?
I’m surprised he was that young, really would have thought mid-90s.
I’m not thrilled thinking of my own judgement as I get older, so I won’t speculate on Ted Turner’s meeting with the Lord.
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