{"id":111606,"date":"2026-05-07T15:09:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T10:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=111606"},"modified":"2026-05-07T15:09:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T10:09:50","slug":"cnn-founder-ted-turner-passes-away-at-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/cnn-founder-ted-turner-passes-away-at-87\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN founder Ted Turner passes away at 87"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK: Ted Turner, who revolutionized the global media industry and founded CNN, has passed away at the age of 87.<\/p>\n<p>The American broadcaster <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/india-requested-ceasefire-after-pakistans-retaliation-reports-cnn\/\">CNN<\/a> confirmed his death in a statement issued by Turner Enterprises, but the cause of death was not immediately revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Ted Turner was considered a unique and bold name in modern TV journalism. He changed the media landscape forever by founding the world&#8217;s first 24-hour news channel CNN in 1980.<\/p>\n<p>Ted Turner was remembered by various nicknames, including &#8220;Captain Outrage&#8221;, &#8220;Mouth of the South&#8221; and &#8220;Terrible Ted&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK: Ted Turner, who revolutionized the global media industry and founded CNN, has passed away at the age of 87. The American broadcaster CNN confirmed his death in a statement issued by Turner Enterprises, but the cause of death was not immediately revealed. Ted Turner was considered a unique and bold name in modern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":1490,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[41807],"class_list":["post-111606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-ted-turner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111611,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111606\/revisions\/111611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}