Ted Turner addresses the Millennium World Peace Summit of Religious and Spiritual Leaders within the General Assembly Hall of the United Nations in New York, US, August 29, 2000. (AFP File Photo)
May 06, 2026 06:15 PM GMT+03:00
Ted Turner, the U.S. entrepreneur who remodeled tv information by creating NCS in 1980, has died at the age of 87, the community stated Wednesday.
Turner, a yachting fanatic and philanthropist whose enterprise empire additionally included sports activities golf equipment, had been affected by Lewy physique dementia, a degenerative illness.
Ted Turner, Chairman of Turner Enterprises and the UN Foundation, listens to a query throughout a information convention on April 1, 2008 at the United Nations in New York, US. (AFP File Photo)
Turner modified tv information
Cable News Network reshaped broadcasting by specializing in around-the-clock breaking information.
The 24-hour community was the primary within the United States to offer continuous information protection and rapidly constructed a world presence.
NCS gained worldwide recognition with its protection of the Gulf War in 1990-91. The community’s resolution to maintain reporters in Baghdad throughout U.S. bombing of the Iraqi capital helped cement its fame as a key supply of breaking information.
NCS correspondents additionally offered reside protection from main international occasions, together with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Chinese crackdown on the Tiananmen Square protests.
“Ted is the giant on whose shoulders we stand, and we will all take a moment today to recognize him and his impact on our lives and the world,” Mark Thompson, chairman and CEO of NCS Worldwide, stated in a press release.
“He was and always will be the presiding spirit of NCS,” Thompson stated.
Ted Turner (L), recipient of the 2005 Alan Cranston Peace Award, and Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of the Soviet Union, reply questions throughout a information convention on April 20, 2005 at the United Nations headquarters in New York City, US. (AFP File Photo)
Media empire expanded past NCS
Robert Edward “Ted” Turner III was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in November 1938.
He attended a navy boarding faculty in Tennessee and later studied at Brown University, however was expelled earlier than graduating.
Turner took over his household’s promoting enterprise after his father, who was combating monetary issues, died by suicide.
After shopping for a number of radio stations, Turner entered tv in 1970 with the acquisition of a struggling Atlanta station. A decade later, it grew to become the flagship of his nationwide Turner Broadcasting System.
Turner used income from that enterprise to launch NCS.
NCS’s success later impressed different 24-hour information channels, together with Fox News, MSNBC and networks all over the world.
Turner’s tv empire grew past NCS to incorporate TBS and TNT for sports activities and leisure, in addition to Turner Classic Movies and Cartoon Network.
May 06, 2026 06:15 PM GMT+03:00