(FILES) Ted Turner, Chairman of Turner Enterprises and the UN Foundation, listens to a question during a news conference on April 1, 2008 at the United Nations in New York. Ted Turner, who transformed television news with the creation of CNN in 1980, has died at the age of 87, the network said on May 6, 2026. Cable News Network upended established broadcasting with its dedication to around-the-clock breaking news and shot to global recognition with its coverage of the Gulf War in 1990-91. (Photo by Don EMMERT / AFP via Getty Images)