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TBS originated as a terrestrial television station in Atlanta, Georgia that began operating on UHF channel 17 on September 1, 1967, under the WJRJ-TV call letters.That station—which its original parent originally filed to transmit UHF channel 46, before modifying it to assign channel 17 as its frequency in February 1966—was founded by Rice Broadcasting Inc. (owned by Atlanta entrepreneur ...
Braves TBS Baseball (1973–2007) College Football on TBS (1982–2006) NASCAR on TBS (1983–2000) NBA on TBS (1984–2002) U.S. Olympic Gold (1989–92) NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship (2016–17)
Turner was known for several pioneering innovations in U.S. multichannel television, including its satellite uplink of local Atlanta independent station WTCG channel 17 as TBS—one of the first national "superstations", and its establishment of the Cable News Network —the first 24-hour news channel.
Scripps News – A 24-hour news and documentary channel originally founded in 2008 as Newsy, operating as a syndication business that was acquired in 2014 by the E. W. Scripps Company; Scripps converted the brand into a cable channel operating on the former channel space ot Retirement Living TV in 2017, and relaunched it as an over-the-air ...
For many years beginning when the station assumed rights to the team's game telecasts in the late 1970s, WTBS (channel 17) in Atlanta – which served as the originating feed of the national TBS cable channel from December 1976 to October 2007 – aired some regular season games from the Atlanta Hawks (which was also owned by Ted Turner at the time), which also aired nationally on WTBS's ...
The national TBS cable channel—which had been created as a separate national feed in 1981, later to be split off from WTBS in the 1990s and which for a time was carried in place of that station by some Canadian television providers—was technically a separate channel, and had never been formally approved by the CRTC as an eligible-for ...
Prior to the launch of the channel in 1988, the Turner Network Television name had been used by the Turner Broadcasting System for an ad hoc syndication service which produced and distributed various sporting events for carriage on Turner's Atlanta, Georgia, superstation WTBS (channel 17, now WPCH-TV, which was separated from its national cable ...
TBS Television (Japan), a television station; TBS Radio, a radio station; BS-TBS, a satellite broadcasting station in Tokyo, Japan; Turner Broadcasting System, media company in the United States TBS (American TV channel), a cable television channel in the United States; TBS (Latin American TV channel), a defunct Latin American channel