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Born on November 19, 1938, he is an American mogul and .
His complete name is Edward "Ted" Turner III.
He is known as of the cable news network CNN, the first 24-hour cable news channel.
As a philanthropist, he is best known for his $1 gift to support the United Nations, which created the , a public charity to broaden support for the UN.
Turner serves as of the United Nations Foundation board of directors.
Turner's media empire began with his father's business, which he took over at 24 after his father's suicide.
Cable News Network revolutionized news media, covering the Space Shuttle disaster in 1986 and the Persian in 1991.
Turner has also devoted his assets to environmental causes.
He was the largest private in the United States until John C. Malone surpassed him in 2011.
In 1993, Turner and Russian journalist Eduard Sagalajev founded The Independent Broadcasting Corporation.
In 1991, Turner became the first media figure to be named Time magazine's .
After the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics, Turner founded the Goodwill Games as a statement for peace through sports.
In 1990, the American Humanist Association named Turner the of the Year.
He is also a recipient of the Albert Schweitzer Medal for Humanitarianism.
On September 19, 2006, in a Reuters Newsmaker conference, Turner said of Iran's nuclear position: "They're a sovereign state. We have 28,000. Why can't they have 10?
A proponent of Obama’s bill, Turner has said: “We’re the only first world country that doesn’t have universal healthcare and it’s a .”
Turner claims to have predicted the of newspapers 30 years ago and has called journalism “an obsolete way of distributing information.”
Turner has been married and divorced times.