All Elite Wrestling pays tribute to Ted Turner after his death at 87

Media mogul Ted Turner has died at age 87.

All Elite Wrestling (AEW) started a special double episode of "Dynamite" and "Collision" Wednesday with a 10-bell salute to Ted Turner.

Turner, who helped launch TNT and TBS and purchased World Championship Wrestling (WCW) to help change the pro wrestling world, died Tuesday. He was 87.

AEW co-founder Tony Khan announced the tribute to Turner before the show.

CNN FOUNDER AND CABLE NEWS PIONEER TED TURNER DEAD AT 87

Sting and Ted Turner shake hands in Atlanta in December 1993. (WWE/WWE/Getty Images)

"It’s a very sad day in the world of television and certainly in the world of professional wrestling," Khan said in a livestream posted to his X account. "The man who gave us this platform, the man who created TBS and TNT and so many great television channels and so many great concepts in the field of television, the late great Mr. Ted Turner has passed."

AEW commentator Tony Schiavone had some heartfelt words to say about Turner at the start of the show.

"Ted Turner believed in pro wrestling," Schiavone said. "He believed in you, the fans, and he believed that pro wrestling belonged on national television. And because of his passion, because of his vision, it found a home on TBS and then later in the '90s, on TNT. And, therefore, generations of fans around the world knew that we were destination viewing.

"And I knew that firsthand. I began in the studio in TBS in 1985. Decades later, because of the foundation that was laid by Ted Turner, we still survive today through the leadership of Tony Khan in AEW, through the leadership of Warner Discovery, wrestling still survives."

CNN founder Ted Turner attends the "Cold War: The Complete Series" screening at The Paley Center for Media in