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Atlanta Braves baseball games had been a local staple on Atlanta independent station WTBS (channel 17, now WPCH-TV; which, like TBS, was owned by Ted Turner's Turner Broadcasting System) since Turner acquired the team's broadcast rights in 1973, and subsequently gained national prominence when the station was uplinked to satellite in December 1976, becoming one of America's first superstations.
Coverage of the Atlanta Braves was perhaps TBS's signature program during its early years. Ted Turner – who had purchased WJRJ-TV (channel 17) in January 1970 (changing its call letters to WTCG shortly after the sale was finalized), when the station was simply a UHF independent station available primarily within the Atlanta market – shocked Atlanta media observers by acquiring the rights ...
Turner's contract ran through 2013. As part of the contract, TBS relinquished its rights to air Atlanta Braves games nationally after the 2007 season, by separating WTBS (now WPCH) channel 17 from the TBS network, rebranding as Peachtree TV on October 1, 2007. The new station still aired Atlanta Braves games.
The debut of UFC president Dana White's Power Slap League on TBS has been pushed back from Jan. 11 to Jan. 18 in light of the domestic violence incident between White and his wife, Anne, on New ...
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TBS would also air afternoon games with new co-existing rights on the final 13 Sundays of the regular season [43] as part of the network's Sunday MLB on TBS Game of the Week package. TBS would lose the broadcasting rights to the MLB All-Star Selection Show to the MLB Network. [44] ESPN also agreed to a new contract.
TBS continued to broadcast MLB Tuesday. Most games were blacked out in the home markets of the teams playing, however, TBS was allowed to co-exist once with a team's local broadcast. [188] During the final month of the regular season, TBS' sister network TruTV also aired MLB Race to the Pennant on Tuesday nights.
If Harris loses the election, it will be because she couldn't answer the question "How would you be different from Joe Biden?" and if Trump loses, it will be due to the events of Jan. 6.