TBS (American TV channel)

**TBS** (Turner Broadcasting System) is an American cable TV network that shows sports and variety programming. TBS is well known for its broadcasts of the Atlanta Braves Major League Baseball team and various National Basketball Association games. TBS also shows reruns of popular network television shows from the past.

## Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists library

During the 1980s, WTBS focused heavily on movies – running two films during the day, and a movie-exclusive schedule during the nighttime hours after 8:00 p.m., with the exception of sports events. At other times, WTBS continued to run mostly classic sitcoms, and vintage cartoons. In 1986, when Ted Turner purchased Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists (which he would sell back to previous owner Kirk Kerkorian that October due to debt incurred by the Turner Broadcasting System from its purchase of the film studio), WTBS gained the rights to the entire MGM film library (including certain acquisitions by MGM). This gave WTBS the rights to air many theatrical cartoon shorts such as _Tom & Jerry_, _Barney Bear_, _Tex Avery_, and _The Pink Panther_, as well as shows like _Gilligan's Island_ and _CHiPs_.

Along with _Tom & Jerry_, WTBS began to run _The Little Rascals_, _Looney Tunes_/_Merrie Melodies_ cartoons released prior to August 1948, theatrical _Popeye_ cartoon shorts, and _Three Stooges_ shorts under the banner _Tom & Jerry and Friends_ running for either one hour or 90 minutes during the morning hours and for an hour in the afternoon from 1986 until the mid-1990s. In the late 1980s, WTBS decreased the number of movies broadcast during the day slightly and began to add sitcoms from the 1970s (such as _Happy Days_, _The Jeffersons_, _Good Times_ and _One Day at a Time_) to the evening lineup; _Little House on the Prairie_ aired during the late mornings continuously from 1986 to 2003.

## Other websites

- Official Site of TBS
- Official Site of Turner Broadcasting
- Clips of _17 Update Early in the Morning_ maintained by former anchor Bill Tush
- http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news.aspx?date=12/11/08&id=20081211turner01

## Infobox (television channel)

- **name**: Turner Broadcasting System
- **logo**: TBS 2020.svg
- **logo size**: 150px
- **launch date**:

- **owner**: Warner Bros. Discovery
- **picture format**: 1080i (High-definition television, HDTV)

- **slogan**: _We're comedy._
- **country**: United States
- **language**: English
Spanish (with Secondary audio program, SAP audio track)
- **area**: Worldwide
- **headquarters**: Atlanta, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia
- **sat serv 1**: Orby TV
- **sat chan 1**: Channel 104 (HD)
- **sat serv 2**: Dish Network
- **sat chan 2**: Channel 139 (HD)
- **sat serv 3**: DirecTV
- **cable serv 1**: Available on most cable systems
- **cable chan 1**: Channel slots vary depending on the provider
- **iptv serv 1**: Google Fiber
- **iptv chan 1**: Channel 284 (HD/SD)
- **iptv serv 2**: CenturyLink, CenturyLink Prism
- **iptv serv 3**: Verizon Fios
- **iptv serv 4**: AT&T U-verse
- **online serv 1**: tbs.com
- **online serv 2**: DirecTV Stream
- **online chan 2**: IPTV, Internet Protocol television
- **online serv 3**: Hulu#Hulu + Live TV, Hulu with Live TV
- **online chan 3**: IPTV, Internet Protocol television
- **online serv 4**: Sling TV
- **online chan 4**: IPTV, Internet Protocol television
- **online serv 5**: YouTube TV
- **online chan 5**: IPTV, Internet Protocol television