Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.

…were sold in 1986 to Turner Broadcasting System, which later merged with Time Warner Inc. in 1996.

…cable “superstation,” WTCG (WTBS, or TBS). The station declared the Braves “America’s Team,” and the team’s national profile rose, even though it finished last in its division each season from 1976 through 1979.

…launched in 1992 by the Turner Broadcasting System (TBS), that was the first channel to offer 24/7 broadcast of animated programming. It is considered an innovator for both its original cartoon series and its programming blocks that introduced American audiences to Japanese animation, or anime, and that pioneered animated series…

…station (later renamed WTBS, or TBS, the Turner Broadcasting System) to a nationwide cable television audience, thereby greatly increasing revenues. To reflect the business’s shift from billboards, Turner renamed it Turner Communications Company, and in 1979 the venture became known as Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. Turner went on to create…