Turner Broadcasting System
Turner Broadcasting System ( TBS), occurring mostly under the short name Turner, is an American media company that operates cable channels and is active in the film rights. TBS is one of seven independent companies within the Time Warner Group and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
History
Ted Turner bought the loss-making in 1970 UHF television station WJRJ in Atlanta and changed the name of the transmitter in WTCG, in reference to the new parent company of the sender, the Turner Communications Group.
In December 1976 WTCG became the first stations in the U.S. who spread his program over the superstation concept. Here, a television station over the C-band was nationwide fed into the cable networks with the advent of C- band satellite for the first time. This concept formed the basis of today's modern Basic Cable Television ( cable television) in the USA.
As the Turner Communications Group in 1979 changed its name to Turner Broadcasting System changed, the name of was " core station" adapted, this time in WTBS again. Thus, TBS Superstation established as a name for the outgoing of WTBS cable channels. History wrote TBS in 1980 with the launch of the cable channel Cable News Network (CNN ), the first transmitter that sent only news around the clock.
Ted Turner bought via TBS in 1986 Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer ( MGM) by Kirk Kerkorian from. However, Turner realized that the acquisition was beyond his financial means and were to cover the running costs of the film studio hardly what he was a few weeks later, MGM back to Kerkorian sold. However, this only covered the film studio, the naming rights and the film library of United Artists - Turner retained the complete film library of MGM, which before 1948 and the majority of the RKO Pictures titles also included all Warner Bros. titles from.
For the management of the newly acquired film library, the subsidiary Turner Entertainment International was founded on 4 August 1986. In addition to administration and management of the title, Turner Entertainment also deals with the restoration Selbiger.
TBS Superstation remained the most important TBS cable station, for the evaluation of the extensive film library more cable channels, however, were established, even received several international offshoots later:
Already the MGM film library brought several animated cinema short films ( theatrical shorts) from MGM and Warner Bros., additionally acquired TBS 1991, the animation studio Hanna -Barbera along with its film library, which comprised mainly for television animated productions produced. The combination of the two acquisitions supplied the material for the animated cable channels Cartoon Network.
Turner merged in 1993 with New Line Cinema and 1994 with Castle Rock Entertainment, originated abroad then in cooperation with local film distributors sales offices of Castle Rock ( Cirrus Castle Rock / Turner in the UK, Concorde -Castle Rock / Turner in Germany, Filmayer - Castle Rock / Turner in Spain).
Turner Broadcasting System merged with Time Warner in 1996 and then reorganized.
In 2000, two other cable channels emerged: Turner South, a Southern version of TBS / TNT and a Boomerang CN offshoot.
After 2001, parts of the sports holdings of TBS by Time Warner sold:
- World Championship Wrestling ( WCW )
In German-speaking Turner currently operates the news channel CNN International, the entertainment channels Cartoon Network, Boomerang, and TNT series, TNT Serie HD, TNT movie, TNT HD movie, glitz glitz * and * HD.
Brands
- TBS Superstation (TBS )
- Cable News Network (CNN )
- Headline News ( HLN )
- Turner Network Television and TNT series
- Cartoon Network (CN)
- Turner Classic Movies (TCM )
- Adult Swim, adultswim and adultswim.de
- Turner South
- Boomerang
- WTBS Atlanta UHF channel 17
Former brands
- New Line Cinema (now Time Warner )
- Castle Rock Entertainment (now Warner Bros. Entertainment)