Jamie Kellner, a pioneering media executive who helped expand the world of broadcast television by creating Fox and the WB networks, died Friday. He was 77. Kellner also oversaw CNN, TNT and TBS as chairman and chief executive of Turner Broadcasting System. He died at his home in Montecito after a long battle with cancer, according to a spokesperson for the family.
'' “The most important lessons we learned were to be different, to speak in a different voice than what was available to viewers already, and to get as young as you can get,' Kellner told The Times in 1997. He left Fox in 1993, just as the network was expanding into a seventh night of programming and had numerous buzzy hits like the '90210' spinoff 'Melrose Place.
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