The four-time 'Yachtsman of the Year' relished a challenge. When he launched Cable News Network in Atlanta in 1980, few believed the all-news channel would succeed. Also a philanthropist and founder of the United Nations Foundation, Turner died at the age of 87.

Imprenditore visionario e filantropo, Turner ha rivoluzionato l’informazione globale e lasciato un’eredità duratura nel mondo della televisione e dell’attivismo ambientale

Ted Turner transformed cable news by founding CNN, built TBS and TNT, owned the Atlanta Braves, and became a leading philanthropist.