The man who changed the face of television broadcasting and media mogul. Ted Turner is dead. He was 87.

A team owner, restaurateur, philanthropist and a lover of the wide-open spaces, the man who would come to be known as “The Mouth of the South” was born in Cincinnati on Nov. 19, 1938. The family later moved South.

His father, Ed Turner, was a demanding, hard-working man who drank heavily, struggled with bouts of depression and sometimes beat his son with a razor strap.

The elder Turner sent his son away to military boarding school and believed that instilling a sense of insecurity in him would give him more drive.

It worked.

“You won’t hardly ever find a super-achiever anywhere that isn’t … motivated at least partially by a sense of insecurity,’’ Ted Turner said in a 1991 TV interview with David Frost.

As a teen, Turner wanted to become a Christian missionary. But he lost his faith after the long, agonizing death of his younger sister, Mary Jane, who had a form of Lupus, he told an interviewer for Time when the magazine named him Man of the Year for 1991.

Turner attended Brown University, but he was a rebellious student and was kicked out after sneaking a woman into his room. He then moved to Atlanta, where he joined his father’s billboard business, got married and had two children. But Turner didn’t find stability. His father committed suicide when Ted was 24.