I dedicate the news channel for America, the cable news network.

When Ted Turner created CNN in 1980, he not only started the first 24-hour news channel,

he revolutionized the way the world consumes news forever.

Starting with his father's billboard advertising company,

he bought a few radio stations and a failing TV station in Georgia. Turner created a global media empire that helped shape the way journalists report stories around the world. Without him, I would not

be sitting here recording this podcast and my colleagues

wouldn't be bringing you the news around the clock every single day. Ted Turner has died at the

age of 87. From CNN, I'm David Ryan with this look back at the man and the legacy he leaves

behind.

Robert Edward Turner III, who would one day earn the nickname,

the Mouth of the South, was born on November 19, 1938 in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Educated at a boarding school that he didn't like, his childhood was marked by a difficult relationship with his father.

Turner spoke about being disciplined with a leather strap or wire coat hanger.

He spent high school at a strict military school until landing at Brown University.

But his father stopped paying his tuition because he didn't approve of his son's major.

Turner shared a letter he got from him with

CNN. My dear son, I'm appalled, even horrified that you have adopted classics as a major.

As a matter of fact, I almost puked on the way home today. I think you were rapidly becoming

a jackass, devotedly dad.

When the money dried up, Turner dropped out of school to return to Georgia and work at

his dad's billboard company, Turner Outdoor Advertising.

And when Turner was just 24, his father took his own life, leaving Turner in charge of the

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