Turner Broadcasting Systems

Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.

The CNN Center, which houses the headquarters of Turner Broadcasting System
Type	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 (sale to AT&T pending)
Divisions	Turner Sports
Subsidiaries	Turner Broadcasting System Europe Turner Broadcasting System Asia Pacific Turner Broadcasting System Latin America Cartoon Network Studios Studio T Turner Private Networks Hulu (10%) Williams Street iStreamPlanet (majority stake) LTS Garðbær Studios
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.