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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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• 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 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...

  Tags: Boston Red Sox, entertainment, Games, South, Turner, Turner Broadcasting System Inc., TV

• 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...

  Tags: entertainment, INTERNET, MARKETING, NHL, Turner, Turner Broadcasting System Inc., Webcast

• Schiller Exit Spurs Turner Revamp.(Harvey Schiller; restructuring of Turner Sports)

  - 1999-11-08

  Harvey Schiller's departure from Turner Sports set off a major restructuring of the Turner Broadcasting System Inc. division last week, as chairman and CEO Terry McGuirk named three executives to oversee units previously run by Schiller. Mark Lazarus, formerly executive vice...

  Tags: Games, NBA, SALES, Turner, Turner Broadcasting System Inc.

• Turner Buys First Television Rights to Warner Bros. Film Package.(Originated from The Atlanta Journal and Constitution)

  - 1997-01-16

  ATLANTA--Jan. 16--Turner Broadcasting System Inc. announced Wednesday it has become the first cable programmer to buy the television premiere rights from a major movie studio. The Atlanta-based company, which owns cable channels TBS and TNT, has purchased the exclusive U.S. rights...

  Tags: Atlanta, Cable, NETWORKING, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Time Warner Inc., Turner, Turner Broadcasting, Turner Broadcasting System Inc., TV, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

• Television Industry Undergoes Rapid String of Mergers and Changes.(Originated from The Philadelphia Inquirer)

  - 1995-08-06

  PHILADELPHIA--Aug. 5--Ted Turner, the brash cable entrepreneur who founded CNN, has wanted to own a television network so long and so badly he laughs about it. "Why don't I get one?" he said, joking with reporters last month in Los Angeles. "It's like my father...

  Tags: Cable, CBS Corp., Disney Corp., FINANCE, Investment, merger, NBC Universal Inc., network, NETWORKING, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Time Warner Inc., Turner, Turner Broadcasting System Inc., TVs

• The First Amendment in cyberspace.(Emerging Media Technology and the First Amendment)

  - 1995-05-01

  There are currently three First Amendment free speech models in the US, but it is unclear which one would best guide government regulation of electronic communications technologies. The marketplace model would narrowly limit government regulation. The Madisonian model envisions shared government and citizen control. The Turner model, espoused by the...

  Tags: broadcaster, broadcasting, cyberspace, FCC, Internet, media, programming, regulation, speaker, technology, Turner, Turner Broadcasting System Inc., TV, U.S. Congress

• Bill Burke promoted to vice president and general manager, Turner Classic Movies

  - 1995-02-15

  ATLANTA--BUSINESS WIRE--Feb. 15, 1995--William A. Bill Burke has been promoted to vice president and general manager of Turner Classic Movies TCM, Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.'s TBS newest entertainment network, it was announced today by Brad Siegel, president, TCM and TNT.Burke has served as assistant general manager of TCM since January...

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• Turner gets 66 percent pay. (Ted Turner)

  - 1990-07-02

  Turner Gets 66 Percent Pay Raise ATLANTA - Turner Broadcasting System Inc. chairman R.E. Ted Turner, who is already a billionaire, got a 66 percent salary increase in 1989, boosting his yearly pay to $729,952. Turner's...

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