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Turner Broadcasting System

Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.
Division
Industry Entertainment
Cable television
Mass media
Interactive media
Predecessor Turner Communications Group
Founded 1970; 47 years ago (1970)
Founder Ted Turner
Headquarters CNN Center, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
Key people
John K. Martin (CEO & Chairman)
David Levy (President)
Products CNN
CNN International
HLN
TNT
Turner Classic Movies
Cartoon Network
Boomerang
Adult Swim
TruTV
TBS
CNN Airport
Parent Time Warner
Divisions Turner Sports
Subsidiaries Turner Broadcasting System Europe
Turner Broadcasting System Asia Pacific
Turner Broadcasting System Latin America
Cartoon Network Studios
Turner Private Networks
Hulu (10%)
Williams Street
Website www.turner.com

Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (known professionally as Turner Broadcasting System and also known simply as Turner) is an American media conglomerate that is a division of Time Warner and manages the collection of cable television networks and properties initiated or acquired by Ted Turner. The company was founded in 1970, and merged with Time Warner on October 10, 1996. It now operates as a semi-autonomous unit of Time Warner. The company's assets include CNN, HLN, TBS, TNT, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Boomerang and TruTV. The company's current chairman and CEO is John K. Martin. The headquarters of Turner's properties are located in both the CNN Center in Downtown Atlanta and the Turner Broadcasting campus off Techwood Drive in Midtown Atlanta, which also houses Turner Studios. Across Interstate 75/85 from the Techwood campus is the original home of Turner's WTBS superstation (now separated into its TBS cable network and Peachtree TV), which today houses the headquarters of Adult Swim and Williams Street Productions.

In 1970, Ted Turner, then owner of a successful Atlanta-based outdoor advertising company, purchased WJRJ-Atlanta, Channel 17, a small, struggling Ultra High Frequency station, and renamed it WTCG, for parent company Turner Communications Group. By careful programming acquisitions, Turner guided the station to success. During December 1976, WTCG originated the "superstation" concept, transmitting via satellite to cable systems.


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