Pioneering CNN founder Ted Turner has died at age 87
Ted Turner, the flamboyant US entrepreneur who transformed television news with the creation of CNN in 1980, has died at the age of 87, the network said Wednesday.
The mustached southerner, yachting enthusiast and philanthropist, whose empire also included sports clubs, had been suffering from the degenerative disease Lewy Body Dementia.
FRANCE 24's Jessica Le Masurier reports from New York, United States.
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