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Superstation (alternatively rendered as "super station" or informally as "SuperStation") is a term in North American broadcasting that has several meanings.Commonly, a "superstation" is a form of distant signal, a broadcast television signal—usually a commercially licensed station—that is retransmitted via communications satellite or microwave relay to multichannel television providers ...
Three years later, TBS Superstation began airing WCW Thunder. On October 10, 1996, Turner Broadcasting System merged with Time Warner Entertainment, a company formed in 1990 [23] by the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications, [24] and which had held 20% of Turner Broadcasting System in the past. [25]
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)
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 ...
In 1982, SuperStation WTBS reached a special "supplemental" television contract with the NCAA—who controlled all college football television rights at the time—to carry a package of live games on cable. TBS became the first cable network to nationally televise college football games.
This is a list of superstations based in the United States, past and present. These stations were originally local independent stations in several markets. Many later went on to affiliate with The WB or UPN and then with The CW or My Network TV.
On October 6, 1987, Ted Turner announced the launch of Turner Network Television (TNT)—his fifth basic cable network venture, following SuperStation TBS, CNN, Headline News (now HLN) and the short-lived Cable Music Channel—in a keynote address at the opening day of the Atlantic Cable Show in Atlantic City, New Jersey, stating that the ...
WWOR EMI Service was a New York City-based American cable television channel that operated as a superstation feed of Secaucus, New Jersey-licensed WWOR-TV (channel 9). The service was uplinked to satellite from Syracuse, New York, by Eastern Microwave, Inc., which later sold the satellite distribution rights to the Advance Entertainment Corporation subsidiary of Advance Publications, a ...