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Retro: TNT's Debut Schedule - Week of October 3, 1988

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Source: Atlanta Journal & Constitution via newspapers.com
Note: Italicized titles are regularly scheduled movie blocks. Movie time lenghts in those slots vary.

Monday-Friday
6:00 TNT Fun Zone
7:30 Popeye Hour (actually a half-hour)
8:00 Fraggle Rock
9:00 Love Affair
11:00 Medical Center
NOON Song and Dance
2:00 Just For Laughs
4:00 Movie Legends
6:00 Muppet Show
6:30 Bugs Bunny
7:00 Fraggle Rock
8:00 Big Picture I
10:30 Big Picture II
1:30 TNT Overnight
4:30 Movie

Saturday
6:00 Rough Riders
7:30 National Velvet
8:00 Jaimie McPheeters
9:00 How the West was Won
10:00 Man from U.N.C.L.E.
11:00 Saturday Matinee I
1:00 Saturday Matinee II
3:00 Action Theater
5:00 Along Came Bronson
6:00 Daktari
7:00 TNT Family Classic
9:00 Big Picture I
11:30 Big Picture II
2:00 TNT Overnight
3:30 Movie
5:00 Movie

Sunday
6:00 Popeye Hour (This time, it's truly an hour.)
7:00 Bugs Bunny & Pals
8:00 Fraggle Rock
10:00 Family Classic
NOON Sunday Matinee
3:00 Movie Legends
6:00 Portrait of America
7:00 Cousteau Odyssey
8:00 Big Picutre I
10:00 Big Picture II
MIDNIGHT TNT Film School
2:00 TNT Overnight
3:30 Movie
5:00 Movie
 
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TNT aired Gone with the Wind broken into two parts its first two nights as it was a personal favorite of Ted Turner.
 
CTListener said:
It was Superstation TBS with more movies and minus the sports. Took a long time for TNT to establish much of an identity.
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Ya even into the 90’s TNT was just there, airing old westerns and Knots Landing reruns in the day, cartoons in the afternoon that could also be seen on TBS and Cartoon Network, and B-movies at night. I think having NBA, part-time NFL rights and then the rise (and fall) of the WCW gave the network more relevance for an overall weaker line-up. It wasn’t until the early 2000’s rebranding that TNT cemented a real identity around drama between acquiring stronger shows to rerun and producing actual top notch original content themselves.
 
genius said:
Ya even into the 90’s TNT was just there, airing old westerns and Knots Landing reruns in the day, cartoons in the afternoon that could also be seen on TBS and Cartoon Network, and B-movies at night. I think having NBA, part-time NFL rights and then the rise (and fall) of the WCW gave the network more relevance for an overall weaker line-up. It wasn’t until the early 2000’s rebranding that TNT cemented a real identity around drama between acquiring stronger shows to rerun and producing actual top notch original content themselves.
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Jamie Kellner had to ruin Ted's legacy
 
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For a brief time, TNT was using "We know drama" branding, while TBS was "Funny." That clearly defined what each was supposed to be, I thought. But it didn't last and the distinction between the networks got fuzzy again.
 
nomadcowatbk said:
were the Atlanta Braves supposed to be comedy?
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In the very early days of the SuperStation, you could argue they were, and Skip Caray, Ernie Johnson and Pete VanWieren often treated them that way.

But seriously, you're right. Sports had been a part of TBS from the start, and the "Funny" branding was meant to refer to the dominant non-sports programming on the channel. You found "Seinfeld" and other sitcoms on TBS, not TNT, and comedy dominated the prime time schedule.

Did TNT have the NBA during its "Drama" years? Same would apply there, although there is certainly more drama in a typical sports event than there is comedy.
 
I do remember watching TBS around 1995/1996 in the mornings after comedys Like Gilligan's Island and Three's Company they aired Little House on the Prarie. I think they also aired Matlock after the morning movie if I remember right.
 
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