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• Turner Hives Off Its Online Sports Servcie Provider PlayOn; New Company Gets Funding

  Content Next - 2008-12-10

  Turner, part of Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), which has surprisingly been scaling back some of its original online efforts, has now sold off its online sports site services provider PlayOn Sports to a new Atlanta-based company called 2080 Media. The company is focused on production and distribution of broadband...

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• Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. Donates Largest Single Gift in Zoo Atlanta History; Partnership Builds Audience Connection to Education and Entertainment

  - 2004-10-26

  ATLANTA -- Zoo Atlanta, a 118 year-old Atlanta institution, announced today that an innovative new five-year partnership is underway with Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. designed to inform and entertain young audiences and future generations. A $5 million donation by Turner Broadcasting, the largest single gift in Zoo Atlanta history, will...

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• Translating sales success to entertainment: Lazarus applies deal-making skills in new Turner post. (The Fifth Estater).(Mark Lazarus, president of Turner Broadcasting System Inc.'s Entertainment Group)

  - 2003-07-14

  As a young media buyer in the late '80s, Mark Lazarus was ahead of the curve, dabbling in product placement. Client Norelco wanted exposure for a new coffeepot, so Lazarus helped craft a deal with The Nashville Network to feature the coffeemaker on As...

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• AOL net execs: harmony reigns.(Home Box Office and Turner Broadcasting System Inc. coupled under AOL Time Warner Entertainment and Network Group)(Brief Article)

  - 2002-07-29

  The jury is still out on whether the coupling of pay-TV giant Home Box Office and basic-cable juggernaut Turner Broadcasting System Inc. under AOL Time Warner Inc.'s new Entertainment and Network Group will yield strong dividends for the struggling The jury is still out...

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• TBS Superstation and Turner South Announce 2002 Atlanta Braves Television Schedule

  - 2002-02-26

  Entertainment Editors & Television Writers ATLANTA--ENTERTAINMENT WIRE--Feb. 26, 2002-- Networks Combine to Televise 136 Braves Games This Season -- TBS Superstation to Provide Spanish-Language Feed on Second Audio Program SAP -- Turner South to Air Braves Season Opener on Monday, April 1 For the 30th...

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• ADVISORY/Turner's Atlanta Thrashers and Turner Entertainment Group to Debut Rotor-Powered Cyber Ice Webcast on November 17

  - 2000-11-17

  High-Tech and Sports Editors ADVISORY...for Friday (Nov. 17) ATLANTA--BUSINESS WIRE--Nov. 17, 2000 New Live, Interactive Internet Program to Accompany Turner South Network Simulcasts During Selected Thrashers Games Tonight, the Atlanta Thrashers and Turner Entertainment Group will welcome hockey fans as they bring new, highly participatory...

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• Turner Broadcasting President, Steven J. Heyer to Join MisterArt.com's Board of Directors

  - 2000-02-07

  Business Editors &High-Tech Writers ATLANTA--BUSINESS WIRE--Feb. 7, 2000 Media Leader Offers His Talents to the World's Largest Online Discount Art Supply Store MisterArt.com (www.misterart.com), the world's largest online discount art supply store, today announced Steven J. Heyer, president and COO of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. has...

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• William A. Humphrey Named Executive Vice President, Business Development, Technology and Operations, Turner Broadcasting System, Inc

  - 1999-08-09

  ATLANTA--ENTERTAINMENT WIRE--Aug. 9, 1999-- William A. Humphrey has joined Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. as executive vice president of business development, technology and operations, it was announced today by Steven J. Heyer, president and chief operating officer of TBS, Inc. In this newly created position, Humphrey will identify business...

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• TBS, Inc. Announces New Classic Animation Network; BOOMERANG to Launch in April 2000

  - 1999-07-19

  ATLANTA--ENTERTAINMENT WIRE--July 17, 1999-- Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (TBS, Inc.) will launch a new, 24-hour animation network featuring the classic cartoons and stars of the Hanna-Barbera library, it was announced today by Betty Cohen, president of Cartoon Network Worldwide, who will oversee the new network. BOOMERANG will target...

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• The industry used to produce films, TV programmes, books and music. Now it makes brands.(entertainment)

  - 1998-11-21

  The motion picture industry is successfully exploiting the brands and merchandise of characters and ideas that it owns. Entertainment companies that own distribution, production and licensing rights to their brands are able to build a circle in which the ideas of distribution and manufactuing blend together. Subsidiary companies that do...

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