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- ↑ WTBS, Ted Turner's superstation, also has carried college football this year for the first time. But WTBS isn't as polished as ABC or CBS and never had a chance to make our TV Bowl.
- ↑ The NCAA said O.K., but the other college football broadcasters—WTBS, Ted Turner's SuperStation, and ABC—wouldn't allow CBS to broadcast extra games without extracting several pounds of teleflesh. Turner wasn't even disposed to let CBS move a Division I-A game from Saturday to Sunday without the network making what it considered unreasonable concessions. For example, he wanted CBS to promise not to schedule college telecasts opposite the proposed NFL Players Association All-Star games, the rights to which he owns.
- ↑ "Turner Cable TV Gets N.C.A.A. Football Pact". The New York Times . January 28, 1982. Retrieved 2006-09-06.
- ↑ College Football has aired frequently on TBS throughout the years. Here's a nice Quantel-made promo for a matchup between West Virginia and Maryland. [ permanent dead link ]
- ↑ Next month the College Football Association (CFA) will award its Saturday night cable TV rights for '85. "We're going to take a serious swing at it," says Turner. Last year ESPN paid $9.3 million for the CFA. This year, only Turner may know where the bidding will stop. ESPN has to be uneasy. Says its president, Bill Grimes, "Turner was our competitor last time, on the USFL. Since we edged him out for it, I'm sure he'll be more motivated than last time."
- ↑ And oh, yes, there's a third winner of sorts, Paul Hornung, co-host of the Saturday studio show on WTBS, the Turner superstation (see box). When the NCAA controlled TV, it kept Hornung off college games because of his NFL suspension for gambling and his closer identification with the pro game.
- ↑ OUR FIRST ANNUAL SHAME-ON-YOU AWARD—To WTBS-TV, Ted Turner's superstation, for allowing the NCAA to have veto power over its football announcers. TBS had to get rid of Pepper Rodgers and Paul Hornung when the censors from Shawnee Mission, Kans., found them unsavory.
- ↑ You have your choice of either another CFA game on ESPN or an SEC matchup on WTBS, the Ted Turner superstation.
- ↑ "TBS dropping Big XII football games". Archived from the original on 2016-03-13. Retrieved 2009-12-15.
- ↑ TBS College Football TV Spot on YouTube
- ↑ September 2003 - TBS College Football Promo on YouTube
- ↑ 2003 Oklahoma vs Colorado on YouTube
- ↑ 2003 Oklahoma vs Iowa State on YouTube
- ↑ Texas v Tulane 2003 on YouTube
- ↑ 2005 Oklahoma vs Kansas on YouTube
- ↑ "OSU v Texas Tease". YouTube. 2006-12-15. Retrieved 2012-08-31.[ dead YouTube link ]
- ↑ NFL on TNT Theme Music (1995-1997) on YouTube
- ↑ NFL on TNT '95 ("Warrior Dance") on YouTube
- ↑ "College Football - 506 Archive".
- ↑ 1983 East Carolina - NC State on YouTube
- ↑ 1983 Tennessee vs Mississippi on YouTube
- ↑ LSU vs TULANE 1983 Football in the Superdome on YouTube
- ↑ 1987 Georgia vs. Kentucky on YouTube
- ↑ 1988 OM 22 v ALA 12, The Brick Bowl on YouTube
- ↑ TBS 1989 Alabama vs Vanderbilt Football Commercial on YouTube
- ↑ 1989 # 11 Tennessee vs LSU on YouTube
- ↑ 1989 # 8 Tennessee vs Vanderbilt on YouTube
- ↑ TBS Sports: SEC Football, Georgia v Ole Miss (circa 1989) on YouTube
- ↑ Texas v Oklahoma State 2004 on YouTube
- ↑ Texas @ Oklahoma State 2005 2nd Half on YouTube
- ↑ "Thulin will begin his third-consecutive year as the play-by-play announcer for TBS' 2004-05 college football coverage". Archived from the original on 2011-09-28. Retrieved 2009-12-15.
- ↑ Davis will serve as the analyst for TBS' college football coverage of the Pac-10 and Big 12 for the third consecutive year. Archived 2012-02-23 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Erin Andrews returns to provide atmosphere pieces from the site that showcase the tradition and pageantry of these two great conferences.
- ↑ For the third consecutive year, he will also report from the sideline for TBS' Pac-10/Big 12 college football coverage. Archived 2008-12-04 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Following a successful seven-year career in New York as a stage actor, television commercial and voice-over artist, Kevin Christopher switched career gears and signed on as the Sports Anchor for Turner Broadcasting's TBS Evening News in the spring of 1980. For the next seven years he was the main studio anchor for Atlanta Braves baseball, Atlanta Hawks basketball, NBA basketball, SEC College football and the Sunday night Coors Sports Page highlight show, as well as a contributor to CNN and Headline News. Archived 2010-03-11 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Marc Fein will serve as studio host for TBS’s coverage of Big 12 and PAC-10 college football in 2006. He previously handled sideline reporting duties for the networks’ college football coverage in 2004. Archived 2011-09-28 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ He also hosted college football games on TBS Superstation for the 2002-03 season, dubbed Big Play Saturday. Archived 2012-02-23 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ He was a sports anchor for CNN while also serving TBS Sports as the anchor of College Football Scoreboard for four years (1982-85). Archived 2008-12-04 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Turner Sports announced today that legendary Oklahoma Sooners linebacker Brian Bosworth will join TBS Superstation's Big PlayStation Saturday this season as a studio analyst for its pre-game, post-game and halftime shows.
