{"id":298876,"date":"2026-05-06T13:25:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T18:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=298876"},"modified":"2026-05-08T09:04:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T14:04:44","slug":"ted-turner-founder-cnn-dies-at-87-may-6-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=298876","title":{"rendered":"Ted Turner &#8211; Founder CNN &#8211; Dies at 87 May 6, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Ted-Turner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Ted-Turner-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-298877\" style=\"width:149px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Ted-Turner-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Ted-Turner-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Ted-Turner-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Ted-Turner-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Ted-Turner-1366x2048.jpg 1366w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Ted-Turner-117x175.jpg 117w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Ted-Turner.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Ted Turner, the\u00a0media maverick\u00a0&amp; philanthropist who founded CNN, died Weds, surrounded by his family, according to a news release from Turner Enterprises. He was 87.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For full story at CNN, go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/05\/06\/us\/ted-turner-death\">https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/05\/06\/us\/ted-turner-death<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cable Services (CSi) is a Charter CNN Affiliate, 1 of 10 systems that aired CNN on its initial broadcast. That day, Jim Smorada, Editor of the Jamestown Sun, asked a question from the CSi Studio. A year later, at the CNN 1st Anniversary celebration in Chicago, CNN founder Ted Turner cut the cake and said, &#8220;I want to give this to a real cable guy&#8221; and presented the first piece of cake to Cable Services founder M. Roy Sheppard.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/turner1stAnniv.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"397\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/turner1stAnniv.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-298895\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/turner1stAnniv.jpg 600w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/turner1stAnniv-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/turner1stAnniv-264x175.jpg 264w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ted Turner, the\u00a0media maverick\u00a0&amp; philanthropist who founded CNN, died Weds, surrounded by his family, according to a news release from Turner Enterprises. He was 87. For full story at CNN, go to https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/05\/06\/us\/ted-turner-death Cable Services (CSi) is a Charter CNN Affiliate, 1 of 10 systems that aired CNN on its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":298879,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-obits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=298876"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":298904,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298876\/revisions\/298904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/298879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=298876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=298876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=298876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}