Turner Broadcasting System

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The Turner Broadcasting System (often abbreviated to Turner or TBS) is the company managing the collection of cable networks and properties started by Ted Turner in the mid-1970s. Their current assets include CNN, TBS Superstation (and flagship station WTBS), Turner Network Television, Cartoon Network, Boomerang, Turner South, and Turner Classic Movies. TBS also manages Turner Entertainment, the holding company for Turner's library of classic films from the MGM and pre-1948 Warner Bros. catalogs.

Turner Broadcasting merged with Time Warner in 1996, and now operates as a semi-autonomous unit of Time Warner.