How was he supposed to have died? I never even heard of such scuttlebutt under the table. You can rest assured that he was never dead. There are at least 3 of us here from the Atlanta area. We would report it instantly. Ted owned TBS the Superstation, CNN, the Weather Channel, the Atlanta Braves and god knows what else around here. Hes the most highly thought of white boy to come out the region in the last 30 years. If he died it would be all over our news outlets 24/7 for a week. You figure CNN at the least would pay grand homage to its founder at the minimum.