Turner Broadcasting System

About TBS

Turner Broadcasting System (TBS) is the company managing the collection of cable networks and properties started by Ted Turner from the mid-1970s to the late-1990s. Their current assets include CNN, TBS (and corresponding over-the-air Atlanta station WTBS-17), Turner Network Television, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Boomerang, Court TV, and Turner Classic Movies.

TBS also manages Turner Entertainment Company, the holding company for Turner's library of classic films from most of the pre-1986 MGM, pre-1948 Warner Bros. and the RKO Pictures catalogs.

Turner Broadcasting also owns PC gaming service GameTap, and online shopping service Bamzu.

TBS, Inc. merged with Time Warner in 1996, and now operates as a semi-autonomous unit of Time Warner. The current chairman and CEO of Turner Broadcasting System is Phil Kent.

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