Turner Broadcasting System (Johnsonverse)

Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. is an American television and media conglomerate. Founded by Ted Turner and based in Atlanta, Georgia, it merged with D⁠u⁠b⁠é Incorporated subsidiary Time Warner (later WarnerMedia) on October 10, 1996. The headquarters of Turner's properties are largely located at the CNN Center in Downtown Atlanta, and the Turner Broadcasting campus off Techwood Drive in Midtown Atlanta, which also houses Turner Studios. Some of their operations are housed within Warner's corporate and global headquarters inside 30 Hudson Yards in Manhattan's West Side district, and at 230 Park Avenue South in Midtown Manhattan, both in New York City, respectively.
Turner is known for several pioneering innovations in U.S. multichannel television, including its satellite uplink of local Atlanta independent station WTCG channel 17 as TSS—one of the first national "superstations", and its establishment of CNN—the first 24-hour news channel. It later launched a sister cable network, TNT, the children's channel Cartoon Network (with Johnson Industries and MGM/UA Communications), and the movie channel Turner Classic Movies (TCM). Turner South—a network devoted to regional sports and southern lifestyle programming—was launched by Turner in 1999, but was later sold to Fox Sports Networks in 2006 to form SportSouth. The same year, it acquired Liberty Media's stake in their joint venture Court TV.
As of 2020, D⁠u⁠b⁠é reported the financial results for Warner's ad-supported cable networks under the Turner business unit, while also using the term "the TNets" to refer to the group of TSS, TNT, and TruTV in press releases.
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