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Question about Turner Broadcasting (spun into WarnerMedia in 2019)

tall_guy1

tall_guy1

Were these networks prior to 2019 considered sister stations of HBO and connected to Warner Brothers the way they are now? I know they used to operate in Atlanta, but were they interconnected with the "other" parts of Time Warner? I know they secured some expensive cable rights for truly operating independently. What is the story there?
 
HBO was a stand alone cable channel. Ted Turner launched CNN. There was no overlap.

Ted Turner sold to Time Warner, that is when they became one.
 
Management at WB-Discovery and its predecessors has always been complicated with tons of division chiefs reporting to each other. It's the nature of a conglomerate.

However, HBO and the Turner Networks were two separate divisions with separate legal entities until the 2019 reorganization.

Exactly how the divisions worked together would probably require insight from someone who worked for Time-Warner/Warner Networks/WB-Discovery during the time periods in question.
 
tall_guy1 said:
That period of time is what I mean, when they operated out of Atlanta, but part of Time Warner.
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1996 Ted sold to TimeWarner.

On October 10, 1996, Turner Broadcasting System merged with Time Warner Entertainment, a company formed in 1990[29] by the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications,[30] and which had held 20% of Turner Broadcasting System in the past.[31] Through this merger, Warner Bros. had regained the rights to its pre-1950 library, while Turner Broadcasting System gained access to the company's post-1950 library and other properties.
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Don CT said:
2018 when AT&T bought TimeWarner Turner broadcasting ceased to exist.
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Their operations in Atlanta as Turner ended in 2019, but I think it definitely started being run by the AT&T overhead. But, I'm not sure how Time Warner and TBS worked together (and HBO, and WB.)
 
tall_guy1 said:
Their operations in Atlanta as Turner ended in 2019, but I think it definitely started being run by the AT&T overhead. But, I'm not sure how Time Warner and TBS worked together (and HBO, and WB.)
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Turner networks was always a separate division. HBO and WB were separate.
 


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