Turner never seemed at a loss for brass or chutzpah.
"If Alexander the Great could conquer the known world, why couldn't I start CNN?" Turner once told Oprah Winfrey.
He launched the Cable News Network — the nation's first continuous all-news television station — on June 1, 1980 at a converted Jewish country club in Atlanta. The network broadcast news 24/7 from that point on and indeed built a global array of bureaus.
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