CNN founder Ted Turner dies at 87

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CNN founder Ted Turner, the outspoken and often outrageous television pioneer, has died at age 87.The network said Turner died on Wednesday, citing a news release from Turner Enterprises. In September 2018 Turner revealed that he had Lewy Body Dementia, a degenerative nerve disease.Turner transformed an obscure Atlanta television station into the first satellite-based "superstation" and founded Cable News Network (CNN), the first