CNN founder Ted Turner dies at 87 in New York

Ted Turner, the founder of CNN, has died at the age of 87 in New York. He was a television pioneer who reshaped global news coverage by launching CNN in 1980, the first 24-hour, all-news television network. Turner owned professional sports teams, defended the America's Cup in yachting, and donated to United Nations charities. He was slowed in later years by Lewy Body Dementia and concentrated on philanthropy and his vast property holdings