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Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (often abbreviated TBS Networks or TBS, inc.) 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, Turner Network Television, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Boomerang, Court TV, Turner Classic Movies, and over-the-air Atlanta station WPCH-17 (formerly WTBS, a near-simulcast of the national TBS).

TBS also manages Turner Entertainment Company, the holding company for Turner's library of classic films from most of the pre-1986 MGM, pre-1948 Warner Bros. and the RKO Pictures catalogs.

Turner Broadcasting also owns PC gaming service GameTap, online comedy portal Super Deluxe, and online shopping service Bamzu.

TBS, Inc. merged with Time Warner in 1996, and now operates as a semi-autonomous unit of Time Warner. The current chairman and CEO of Turner Broadcasting System is Phil Kent.

History

In 1970, Ted 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.

In 1984, Turner launched Cable Music Channel, his competition to MTV. The channel was short-lived, but helped mold and launch the original (but now changed) format of VH1.

Turner expanded its presence in film production and distribution, first with the 1991 purchase of Hanna-Barbera Productions. New Line Cinema and Castle Rock Entertainment would be acquired three years later.

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), Boomerang, TNT Europe, Cartoon Network Europe, Court TV, Pogo, TNT Latin America, Cartoon Network Latin America, TNT & Cartoon Network/Asia Pacific, Cartoon Network Japan, Cable News Network (CNN), Headline News, CNN Pipeline, CNN International, CNN en Español, CNN Airport Network, CNN en Español 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 and is now currently chairman. The former The WB Network was brought to the fold in 2001 during Kellner's watch, but returned to Warner Bros. in 2003 with the departure of Kellner.

In early 2006, the company sold Turner South to Fox Cable Networks creating SportSouth, a regional sports channel. Fox assumed control of the network on May 1, and at the beginning of the newest NHL season, rebranded it as SportSouth, coincidentally the former name of FSN South when Turner owned the network in partnership with Liberty Media, from its founding in 1990, until 1997.

In May 2006, Turner Broadcasting, which already owned 50% of Court TV, purchased the remaining half from Liberty Media.

Also in May 2006, Ted Turner attended his last meeting as a board member of Time Warner and officially bid adieu 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 Ofcom UK received a complaint that the cigar smoking in a Tom & Jerry short was inappropriate.[1]

Boston bomb scare

Main article: 2007 Boston Mooninite Scare


On January 31, 2007 Interference Inc., an advertising firm retained by Turner Broadcasting System Inc., placed several devices around the city of Boston, Massachusetts, and several other communities around the Boston metropolitan area as part of an advertising campaign.

The dozen or so devices were discovered throughout the day by concerned citizens and SWAT teams and prompted a massive metro-wide bomb scare as more and more devices were discovered. Turner confirmed the packages had been placed as part of a guerrilla marketing campaign, and a statement released by Turner Broadcasting clarified that the packages were in fact magnetic lights, not bombs. Two Boston-area men, Sean Stevens and Peter Berdovsky, who had been hired to place the devices by Interference Inc and Turner Broadcasting Systems, were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct and "placing a hoax device."

Adding to the bizarre nature of the incident, as late as 1 p.m. on January 31st, CNN.com was reporting the incident as a "bomb scare", despite the fact that CNN and Turner Broadcasting are owned by the same parent company, Time Warner Inc. Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley, Boston Mayor Tom Menino, and other interested parties seemed to regain their sense of humor about the incident as soon as Philip I. Kent offered to compensate the city and other affected agencies for their expenses, although one or another individuals at Turner Broadcasting Systems would appear to be guilty of conspiracy to place the hoax devices.

According to Massachusetts law, a "hoax device" is "any object that a reasonable person might assume to be infernal" (explosive), and is a felony punishable by up to five years imprisonment. (Source: Jan Freeman, The Boston Globe, Ideas section, "The Word" February 4, 2007)

On Feb. 2, 2007 Turner Broadcasting System apologized to Boston-area residents for the security scare that had bomb squads checking out electronic signs that were part of a nationwide marketing campaign for its subsidiary Cartoon Network, according to NewsMax.com. Phil Kent, Turner's chairman and CEO, made the apology in full-page ads in Boston newspapers for "the confusion and inconvenience". "We never intended this outcome and certainly did not set out to perpetrate a hoax. What we did is inadvertently cause a great American city to deal with the unintended impact of this marketing campaign. For this, we are deeply sorry."[2]

On Monday, February 5, Turner Broadcasting agreed to pay $2 million dollars to the city of Boston and surrounding communities affected by the bomb scare. $1 million dollars will be used to reimburse agencies involved in the event and the other $1 million will go to fund Homeland Security.

Jim Samples, president of the Cartoon Network, resigned on Feburay 9, 2007 after being network president for 5 years.

Current Assets

Information from Turner's website.[3][4]

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Animation

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Robert Edward Turner III (born November 19 1938 (1938--) (age 70) in Cincinnati, Ohio [1] ) is an American media mogul and philanthropist.
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TBS also stands for Tokyo Broadcasting System, a Japanese television network.

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Turner Network Television
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Cartoon Network is a cable television network created by Turner Broadcasting which primarily shows animated programming. The original American channel began broadcasting on October 1, 1992 with the Bugs Bunny short Rhapsody Rabbit being its first-ever aired program.
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Adult Swim is the name for an adult-oriented television programming network. It shares channel space with Cartoon Network in the United States, featuring absurdist and often ribald comedy, in contrast to the much tamer child and pre-teen oriented daytime Cartoon Network.
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Court TV

Type Cable television network
Country United States and Canada
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Founder Steven Brill
Slogan "The Whole Truth", Daytime; "Seriously Entertaining"
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See below Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is a cable television channel featuring commercial-free classic movies, mostly from the Turner Entertainment and Warner Bros.
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WPCH-TV, channel 17, is an independent television station in Atlanta, Georgia, owned by the Turner Broadcasting System subsidiary of Time Warner. Known by the on-air branding of Peachtree TV, WPCH-TV has its studios and transmitter located in Atlanta.
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Turner Entertainment Company, Inc. is an American media company established on August 4, 1986 as a subsidiary of Turner Broadcasting to oversee its film library after its acquisition of the MGM/UA Entertainment Company (now Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc.
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc.

Subsidiary of Sony, Comcast and their equity partners
Founded April 16, 1924
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Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., or Warner Bros. (pronounced Warner Brothers), is one of the world's largest producers of film and television entertainment.

It is currently a subsidiary of the Time Warner conglomerate, with its headquarters in Burbank, California.
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RKO Radio Pictures Inc.

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Founded 1929 (as Radio Pictures Inc., subsidiary of Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corp.)
Headquarters 1270 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY

Industry Motion pictures
Dissolved 1959 (de facto)

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GameTap is an online video game service by Turner Broadcasting System (TBS). Dubbed by TBS as a "broadband gaming network", the service provides users with classic arcade, computer and video games and game related video content.
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Super Deluxe is an ad-supported online broadband service provided by TBS Networks. It was launched on January 17, 2007 at 9:00 P.M. (ET). The service is focused on "television-quality" programming according to Super Deluxe senior vice president and general manager Drew Reifenberger.
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Time Warner Inc.

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Robert Edward Turner III (born November 19 1938 (1938--) (age 70) in Cincinnati, Ohio [1] ) is an American media mogul and philanthropist.
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