‘News will be the star’: Ted Turner’s extraordinary uphill battle to launch CNN

Banks scoffed. Potential partners rejected him. Newspaper owners mocked the idea. But Ted Turner persevered and won.

Ted Turner Created A New Media World After Launching CNN

A sort of reverse butterfly effect, in other words.

How a struggling Charlotte TV station funded the launch of CNN

Long before he was the billionaire chief of CNN, Ted Turner risked everything to buy what's now known as WCNC. The gamble ...

CNN founder Ted Turner dead at 87: latest updates

The Maverick Who Invented the 24-Hour News Cycle, Ted Turner, has died at 87.

'A trailblazer, a rabble-rouser, a do-gooder': CNN founder Ted Turner dies at 87

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CNN confirms streaming service CNN+ to launch this spring

March 2 (Reuters) - Cable news network CNN said on Wednesday it will launch a news and entertainment streaming service called CNN+ this spring, at an initial discounted subscription price of $2.99 a ...