On June 14, 2018, Time Warner, including Turner Broadcasting System, was acquired by telecom firm AT&T and re-branded WarnerMedia. After the purchase, "Turner" was phased out as a corporate...
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of Turner Broadcasting and new vice chairman of Time Warner, told reporters after the meeting. The companies have projected hundreds of millions in savings and estimated that about 1,000...
Ted Turner’s business successes didn’t end when, in 1996, Turner Broadcasting merged with Time Warner. His influence at the world’s largest media company was pervasive; he played the...
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- The countdown to $1 billion in cost savings has begun. Yesterday Time Warner?s Turner Broadcasting unit announced a sale of its regional Turner South network to Fox Cable Ne...
Turner Broadcasting’s Cartoon Network spinoff channel. It includes nearly 450 half-hours of programming from Warner Bros.... This time, the gang is working as hard to solve their own...
The entertainment biz is nothing if not flexible. Not so long ago, Walt Disney Co. Chairman Michael D. Eisner was pooh-poohing big-ticket acquisitions. Time Warner Inc. Chairman Gerald M. Levin, desperate to pare debt from his balance sheet, wanted out of his 18% stake in Turner Broadcasting System Inc. And Ted Turner was adamant in his refusal to do any deal that left him second fiddle. The talk sounded good at the time. But now Eisner is paying $19 billion to buy into Capital Cities/ABC. And in the wake of that megadeal, Levin and Turner are ...
The New York Times offered additional detail, adding that the Justice Department is asking Time Warner to either sell Turner Broadcasting — a group of channels that includes CNN, TBS, TNT...
Time Warner Inc.'s Turner Broadcasting cable unit said it has acquired a majority stake in online video specialist iStreamPlanet, as the company looks to bulk up on technology that powers Web TV.
A merger of Turner Broadcasting and Time Warner would would create a company to overshadow the entertainment colossus Walt Disney Co. put together just last month with its deal to buy...