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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 (originally an initialism of Turner Broadcasting System) is an American basic cable television network owned by the Networks division of Warner Bros. Discovery. [1] It carries a variety of programming, with a focus on comedy, along with some sports events through TNT Sports, including Major League Baseball, Stanley Cup playoffs, and the NCAA men's basketball tournament.
In December 2018, Turner Broadcasting sold the rights to the brand and its pre-2008 original programming library of defunct cable network Court TV (which relaunched as truTV in 2008) to Katz Broadcasting, with plans to re-launch it as an over-the-air digital network in May 2019.
In 1996, Turner Sports became a division of Time Warner after it merged with Turner Broadcasting System. Turner Broadcasting also owned WPCH-TV, the former WTBS, which was the longtime television home for Major League Baseball's Atlanta Braves. The relationship with WPCH ended after the 2013 season, and the station itself was sold in 2017. In ...
Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is an American movie-oriented pay-TV network owned by Warner Bros. Discovery.Launched in 1994, Turner Classic Movies is headquartered at Turner's Techwood broadcasting campus in the Midtown business district of Atlanta, Georgia.
Through the use of multicasting, there have also been a number of new Spanish-language and non-commercial public TV networks that have launched. Free-to-air networks in the U.S. can be divided into five categories: Commercial networks – which air English-language programming to a general audience (for example, ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox);
The channel closed on August 12, 2013, and was replaced with Turner Classic Movies +1 on August 13, 2013. The channel closed on 6 July 2023, while its sister channel Quest airs some of the channel's former film programming. [1] In December 2013, the pan-European channel closed in Portugal, with the launch of Cartoon Network Portugal. In ...
By the end of 1996, Cartoon Network had become "the fifth most popular cable channel in the United States". [5] For the first several years of Cartoon Network's existence, TBS and TNT carried some of Cartoon Network's original programs as part of their lineups to cross-promote the new channel.