Ted Turner, the cable television visionary who fundamentally rewired the media landscape as founder of CNN, TBS, and TNT, has died at 87. According to CNN, Turner died Wednesday surrounded by family. He had previously disclosed in 2018 that he had been diagnosed with Lewy body dementia, a progressive brain disorder. Robert Edward Turner III was born on November 19th, 1938 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He grew up in Savannah, Georgia and studied economics at Brown University, but was expelled for having a girl in his dorm room. He returned to the South in 1960, where he worked as general manager at the Macon, Georgia branch of his father’s business, Turner Advertising Company. When his father died in 1963, Turner became president and CEO of the company. Despite initially dealing in billboards, as president Turner began buying Southern radio stations, and in 1969, he bought the struggling Atlanta television station WJRJ.…