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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 ...
Superstation Funtime (1980–86) Kid's Beat (1983–96) Captain Planet and the Planeteers (1990–97) 2 Stupid Dogs/Super Secret Squirrel (1993–95) SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron (1993–95) Cartoon Planet (1995–96) The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest (1996–97)
Regular-season college football returned to TBS in 2002 as part of a sub-licensing agreement with Fox Sports Net, broadcasting a package of Pac-10 and Big 12 games through 2006. In 2024, ESPN announced that it had reached an agreement with TNT Sports to televise College Football Playoff games on TNT beginning that season, with these games being ...
The following is a list of pay television networks or channels broadcasting or receivable in the United States, organized by broadcast area and genre.. Some television providers use one or more channel slots for east/west feeds, high definition services, secondary audio programming and access to video on demand.
The movie had started 30 minutes earlier. WTCG went from being a little television station to a major TV network that every one of the 24,000 households outside of the 675,000 in Atlanta was receiving coast-to-coast. WTCG became what Turner labeled a superstation, the forerunner of today's basic cable television. [14]
What to watch Friday, December 24: 'A Christmas Story' on TBS and TNT; 'White Christmas' on AMC and Sundance; 'L.A. County Holiday Celebration,' KOCE
WKBD (channel 50, now a CW owned-and-operated station), which was distributed throughout Michigan as a regional superstation and served as the default Fox affiliate for much of the state until WJBK-TV (channel 2) switched to the network from CBS in December 1994, obtained the broadcast rights to Detroit Tigers baseball games in 1993; the station carried the games from 1994 to 2005.
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.