One of the great innovators of television who founded CNN, the first 24-hour cable news channel, and built a vast media empire If Orson Welles’s 1941 film [Citizen Kane][1] had been made as a TV movie 60 years later, its Kane would have been Ted Turner. Thanks to Welles, the figure of [William Randolph Hearst][2], who dominated the American media ...

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/may/06/ted-turner-obituary
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