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• Patient High-Def Approach Pays for TNT (Multichannel News)

  - 2005-04-04

  Late to the HD Fold, Basic Cable's Top-Rated Net Makes Up for Lost Time Sometimes slow and steady will win the race. When HDTV euphoria hit several years ago, Turner Broadcasting System Inc. stayed on the sidelines, taking a more measured approach to launching...

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• Media mogul Ted Turner to become star on Hollywood sidewalk

  - 2004-04-07

  LOS ANGELES AFP ? Hollywood was poised to walk all over US media mogul Ted Turner when he is immortalised with his own star on Tinseltown's Walk of Fame. The billionaire founder of Cable News Network CNN television, will join the likes of Marilyn Monroe, Charlie Chaplin and Bob...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, Cable, ceremony, Hollywood, movie, NETWORKING, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Turner Broadcasting System Inc., TVs

• Cartoon Network President Signs Off to Launch New TV, Internet Venture.

  - 2001-06-16

  By Matt Kemper, The Atlanta Journal and Constitution Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 16--The head of the fastest growing cable network at Atlanta-based Turner Broadcasting System is leaving her post to launch a new TV and Internet venture for the company. ...

  Tags: cable, INTERNET, network, president, Turner Broadcasting, Turner Broadcasting System Inc., TVs

• Ted Turner Is Now Adviser to His Atlanta-Based Media Empire.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)

  - 2001-01-17

  Jan. 18--ATLANTA--Their dashing rascal and protector isn't the boss anymore. Ted Turner, 62 and rich as Midas despite all his efforts to give his money away, is slipping further away from the Atlanta-based media empire he built and its 10,000 employees. ...

  Tags: advisor, Atlanta, Cable, FINANCE, Investment, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Time Warner Inc., Turner Broadcasting, Turner Broadcasting System Inc., TVs

• Schiller, Coke's Koonin to Fill Key Turner Jobs.(People)(Brief Article)

  - 2000-02-14

  Turner Broadcasting System Inc. filled several key executive posts last week, going in-house to name a successor to Cable News Network programmer Pat Mitchell and recruiting a top Coca-Cola Co. marketer as general manager of Turner Network Television. Vivian Schiller, 38, was...

  Tags: Branding, CNN, Coca-Cola Co., documentary, job, MARKETING, Mitchell, network, NETWORKING, PBS, Turner Broadcasting System Inc., TVs

• TNT and TBS Superstation Acquire Exclusive Broadcast Network Window Premiere Rights to Random Hearts, Blue Streak and Other Top Titles From Columbia TriStar Television Distribution

  - 1999-10-06

  ATLANTA--ENTERTAINMENT WIRE--Oct. 6, 1999-- The eagerly anticipated Harrison Ford film Random Hearts, the hit Martin Lawrence comedy Blue Streak and five other Columbia Pictures releases will have their exclusive network television premieres on Turner Network Television TNT and TBS Superstation, under a licensing agreement announced today...

  Tags: Columbia Pictures, Construction, network, NETWORKING, Turner Broadcasting System Inc., TVs, window

• 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...

  Tags: America, Bertelsmann AG, brand, Branding, Cable, Disney Corp., entertainment, ESPN, MARKETING, music, network, News Corp., TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Time Warner Inc., Turner Broadcasting System Inc., TVs

• Vanity, insanity and fear.(Time-Warner Ted Turner and Barry Diller attempt to build media giants in opposite ways)

  - 1995-09-02

  Time-Warner's bid to create an entertainment content-and-distribution giant by buying Turner Broadcasting is not likely to achieve the synergy of rival Disney-Cap Cities ABC. Barry Diller's quiet construction of a network by first acquiring TV-station chain Silver King may be a better way.WHAT is the best way to build...

  Tags: Cable, network, NETWORKING, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Time Warner Inc., Turner Broadcasting, Turner Broadcasting System Inc., TVs

• 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

• Turner Says He's Still Shopping For A TV Network. (Originated from The Atlanta Journal and Constitution)

  - 1994-02-06

  ATLANTA--Feb. 6--Ted Turner fired a warning shot across the bow of Wall Street and the entertainment industry Friday, signaling through a national newspaper that he wants to buy a TV network. Were Wall Street and Hollywood impressed? Not really. "You can't take what Ted says too...

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