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• NBA, Nets Talk Renewal.(ESPN and Turner Broadcasting System vying for contract with National Basketball Association)

  - 2007-04-23

  By R. Thomas Umstead ESPN, Turner Are Eyeing Television, Digital-Content Rights The opening round of the National Basketball Association Playoffs is in full swing, but the league hopes to secure more than just viewers from ESPN...

  Tags: ESPN, game, NBA, network, Turner Broadcasting System Inc.

• Network Reclaims Old Name.

  - 2006-10-09

  By Mike Reynolds RSN Aims To Provide An Insider's View Serving Local Clubs The name may be old, but SportSouth wants to put a new face - one with a lot more local lines - on its...

  Tags: Games, moniker, network, NETWORKING, NHL, South, Turner, Turner Broadcasting System Inc.

• TBS Nabs 100-Episode Sitcom.(Turner Broadcasting System Inc. signs contract with Debmar-Mercury for a comedy program 'House of Payne')

  - 2006-08-28

  By R. Thomas Umstead Nontraditional Deal Puts 'Medea' Creator Into Channel's Fold TBS and production company Debmar-Mercury have broken the traditional sitcom-distribution chain, reaching an unprecedented deal to carry the first 100 epi ...

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• Court TV Joins Turner Fold.(Courtroom Television Network Inc., Time Warner Inc.Turner Broadcasting System Inc.)

  - 2006-05-15

  By Mike Farrell & Mike Reynolds Time Warner Inc. has completed its acquisition of the interest in Court TV it didn't already own, paying $735 million in cash for Liberty Media Corp.'s 50% stake in the 86 million-subscriber cable network. ...

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• People.(A and E Television Networks appoints Tana Nugent Jamieson )(Cable Center Inc. appointed Dolly Bonner and Jennifer Kaufling )(Comcast Corp. appointed Michael Brady and Fritz Hohene )

  - 2006-04-03

  By Staff A&E Network Tana Nugent Jamieson joined A&E Network as senior vice president, drama programming. Nugent Jamieson had been senior programming executive at The WB Television Network. Bravo...

  Tags: Comcast Corp., marketing, network, sales, Turner Broadcasting System Inc.

• Turner's triple threat: engineer Quincy Johnson has business, technical and overall savvy.(Turner Broadcasting System Inc.)(Biography)

  - 2006-01-09

  Quincy Johnson hasn't wasted any time getting down to business at Turner Broadcasting System Inc.--and in fact, his job is to turn technology into a good business. Johnson, who first went to work for Turner as a college intern, has been...

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• TBS stays home of the Braves.(Turner Broadcasting System Inc. Turner Sports and Major League Baseball entered into deal )

  - 2005-11-21

  TBS will remain the home field for national Atlanta Braves telecasts through 2012, as part of a deal reached last Thursday between Major League Baseball and Turner Sports. Beginning in 2008, the comedy-tinged network will air 45 games a year ...

  Tags: Fox, game, MLB, network, Turner Broadcasting System Inc.

• Conduit-based regulation of speech.

  - 2005-04-01

  ABSTRACT Architecture is destiny. As much as information today determines the contemporary wealth of nations, the physical world retains its relevance. Architecture affects crime rates, arguably even collegiality among professors. The interplay between the physical and the ethereal likewise shapes the constitutional doctrine...

  Tags: American Civil Liberties Union, broadcaster, broadcasting, cable, conduit, Democracy, FCC, Internet, M., media, NBC Universal Inc., network, radio, regulation, Reno, Richard, Robert, scarcity, spectrum, technology, telecommunications, Turner Broadcasting System Inc., TV, U.S., Van

• Turner slates feature big talent: TNT, TBS make their original ambitions known.(Turner Broadcasting System Inc.)

  - 2005-03-07

  Sister networks Turner Network Television and TBS are turning to marquee talent for their broad 2006 development slates, with projects from horror-meister Stephen King, Million Dollar Baby producer Paul Haggis, Courteney Cox Arquette, Whoopi Goldbe Sister networks Turner Network Television and TBS are turning...

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• N2's network inroads: Turner, A&E use VOD vendor's gear.(Broadband week: advanced technologies for video, voice and data services)(Video On Demand)(N2 Broadband)(A and E Television Networks)(Turner Broadcasting System Inc.)(Brief Article)

  - 2004-11-01

  ATLANTA -- Over the past two weeks, N2Broadband has sold software products into Turner Broadcasting System Inc. and A&E Television Networks for advanced TV and video-on-demand applications. Turner plans to use a variety of N2 products in a ATLANTA...

  Tags: data service, network, Turner Broadcasting System Inc., video, VoD