Turner Broadcasting System, Inc was an American television and media conglomerate.
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14 Facts About Turner Broadcasting
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Turner Broadcasting grew the business, which later became known as Turner Broadcasting Advertising Company.
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In 1970, Ted Turner Broadcasting purchased WJRJ-Atlanta, Channel 17, a small, Ultra High Frequency station, and renamed it WTCG, for parent company Turner Broadcasting Communications Group.
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Turner Broadcasting launched Cartoon Network on October 1,1992, followed by Turner Broadcasting Classic Movies on April 14,1994.
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On January 1,2004, Turner Broadcasting launched Pogo TV in India as the sister channel to Cartoon Network India.
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Fox assumed control of the channel on May 1, and on October 13 relaunched it as SportSouth – coincidentally, the former name of Fox Sports South when Turner Broadcasting owned this channel in partnership with Liberty Media between 1990 and 1996.
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Also in May 2006, Ted Turner Broadcasting attended his last meeting as a board member of Time Warner and officially parted with the company.
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On October 5,2007, Turner Broadcasting System completed the acquisition of Claxson Interactive Pay Television Networks in Latin America.
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On March 2,2009, Turner Broadcasting launched Real, the company's first Hindi GEC, in India as a joint venture between it and Alva Brothers Entertainment, which it had partnered with before for content on Cartoon Network India and Pogo TV.
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Turner Broadcasting sold Imagine Showbiz to Reliance Broadcast Network in 2011.
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On September 8,2011, Turner Broadcasting System acquired LazyTown Entertainment, the producer of the TV series LazyTown.
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In October 2015, Turner Broadcasting launched a streaming-video network named Great Big Story.
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In December 2018, Turner Broadcasting sold the rights to the brand and its pre-2008 original programming library of defunct cable network Court TV to Katz Broadcasting, with plans to re-launch it as an over-the-air digital network in May 2019.
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