Gourt Home::Gourt :: Turner Broadcasting System
The Turner Broadcasting System (often abbreviated to Turner or TBS), based in Atlanta, Georgia, is the company managing the collection of cable networks and properties started by 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, Turner South†, 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.
†In a deal announced on February 23, 2006, Turner South has been sold to Fox Cable Networks and will become a regional sports channel. Fox assumed control of the network on May 1.
History
Jamie Kellner became chairman and CEO of Turner Broadcasting System in spring of 2001. In 2003, Philip Kent took Kellner's place is now currently chairman.
Diversity
Turner Broadcasting System was named one of the 100 Best Companies for Working Mothers in 2004 by Working Mothers magazine.
Current Assets
Information from Turner's website*.
U.S. Domestic
News
Entertainment
Animation
International
News
- CNN International
- CNN en Español
- CNN IBN, a joint venture between Turner, TV18 and Global Broadcast News
Entertainment
- TNT (Custom programming to Brazil, Mexico, Argentina)
- TCM (Custom programming to UK, France, Spain, Latin America)
Animation
- Cartoon Network (Custom programming to Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Venezuela, Latin America, Europe, Taiwan, India, Japan)
- Pogo
- Boomerang UK
- Toonami UK
- Cartoon Network Too UK
External links
Time Warner subsidiaries | Mass media | Media companies | Media companies of the United States | Broadcasting companies of the United States | Entertainment companies | Entertainment companies of the United States | Turner Broadcasting System | Turner Broadcasting System
"Turner Broadcasting System"