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Turner Broadcasting System (often abbreviated to Turner), based in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, is the company managing the collection of cable networks and properties started by Robert Edward "Ted" Turner from the mid-1970s to the late-1990s. Their current assets include CNN, TBS (and corresponding over-the-air Atlanta station WTBS-17), Turner Network Television, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Boomerang, Court TV, and Turner Classic Movies. TBS also manages Turner Entertainment, the holding company for Turner's library of classic films from the MGM, RKO and pre-1948 Warner Bros. catalogs.

Turner Broadcasting also provides its PC gaming service, GameTap, and its online purchase service, Bamzu.

Turner Broadcasting merged with Time Warner in 1996, and now operates as a semi-autonomous unit of Time Warner.

History

In 1970, R. E. Turner, then head of a successful Atlanta-based outdoor advertising firm, purchased WJRJ-Atlanta, Channel 17, a small, struggling UHF station, and renamed it WTCG, for parent company Turner Communications Group. Through careful programming acquisitions, Turner guided the station to success. In December 1976, WTCG originated the "superstation" concept, transmitting via satellite to cable systems.

In 1979, the company changed its name to Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (TBS, Inc.) and the call letters of its flagship entertainment network to WTBS. In 1980, the company broke new ground with the launch of CNN, the first 24-hour all-news network, forever changing the way the world saw breaking news.

Turner Broadcasting has grown at a phenomenal pace and now consists of the following networks and businesses: TBS, Turner Network Television (TNT), Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Turner Classic Movies (TCM), Turner South, Boomerang, TNT Europe, Cartoon Network Europe, CourtTV, Pogo, TNT Latin America, Cartoon Network Latin America, TNT & Cartoon Network/Asia Pacific, Atlanta Braves, Cartoon Network Japan, Cable News Network (CNN), CNN Headline News, CNN Pipeline, CNN International, CNN en Espanol, CNN Airport Network, CNN en Espanol Radio, CNN.com, CNN Newsource, CNN+, and CNN Turk.

TBS, Inc. is the leading provider of programming for the basic cable industry, and employs more than 8,000 people worldwide.

Jamie Kellner became chairman and CEO of Turner Broadcasting in spring of 2001. In 2003, Philip Kent took Kellner's place is now currently chairman.

In early 2006, the company sold Turner South to Fox Cable Networks, which plans to convert it to a regional sports channel. Fox assumed control of the network on May 1.

In May 2006, Turner Broadcasting purchased the remaining half of CourtTV from Liberty Media, previously it had owned 50% of it.

Also in May 2006, Ted Turner attended his last meeting as a board member of Time Warner and officially bid adeiu to the legacy he created at Turner Broadcasting.

In August 2006, Turner Broadcasting, along with Boomerang UK volunteered to edit and censor most of the Hanna-Barbera shows after a complaint to Ofcom UK about cigar smoking in a Tom & Jerry episode, claiming it was inappropiate.Info Here

Current Assets

Information from Turner's website[1].

U.S. Domestic

News

• CNN
• CNN Headline News
• CNN Pipeline
• CNN.com
• Court TV News
• Money.com

Entertainment

• TBS
• TNT
• TNTHD
• TCM
• Court TV Primetime
• Atlanta Braves
• PGA.com
• Nascar.com
• GameTap
• The Smoking Gun
• WMOB.com
• ACC Select, powered by Play ON!

Animation

• Cartoon Network
• Boomerang
• Adult Swim

International

News

• CNN International
• CNN en Español
• CNN IBN, a joint venture between Turner, TV18 and Global Broadcast News that is only aired in India.

Entertainment

• TCM (Custom programming to UK, France, Spain, Latin America)
• CETV(32%)

Animation

• Cartoon Network (Custom programming to Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Venezuela, Latin America, Europe, Taiwan, India, Japan)
• Pogo (India)
• Boomerang UK
• Toonami UK
• Cartoon Network Too UK
• BOING (49%)

External links

• Turner Official homepage
• Home page of Time Warner, Inc.
• CNN.com
• CartoonNetwork.com
• [adult swim]
• GameTap
• CourtTV.Com
• PGA.com
• PGATour.com
• Nascar.Com
• TNT
• TBS
• TheSmokingGun.Com
• Money.Com
• CNN Pipeline
• Atlanta Braves
• WMOB
• Crime Libary
• ACC Select (Powered by Play ON!)
• Bamzu