# Ted Turner Media entrepreneur (b. 1938) who launched **[[CNN]]** in 1980 as the first 24-hour cable news network, building Turner Broadcasting System into a cable empire (TBS, TNT, Cartoon Network) before selling it to **[[Time Warner]]** in 1996. The 2001 AOL–Time Warner merger wiped out much of Turner's fortune and pushed him out of the company he built. > [!note] Stub > Minimum-viable page created to support the [[CNN and Warner Bros. Discovery Timeline]]. Expand with the CNN founding, the Goodwill Games, and the AOL-merger losses.