Robert Edward Turner III is an American entrepreneur, television producer, media proprietor, and philanthropist. As a businessman, he is known as founder of the Cable News Network (CNN), the first 24-hour cable news channel. In addition, he founded WTBS, which pioneered the superstation concept in cable television, which later became TBS.
TNT is an American basic cable television channel owned by WarnerMedia Studios & Networks that launched in October 1988. TNT's original purpose was to air classic films and television series to which Turner Broadcasting maintained spillover rights through its sister channel SuperStation TBS. Since June 2001, the network had shifted its focus to dramatic television series and feature films, along with some sporting events.
Warner Media, LLC is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate corporation owned by AT&T and headquartered at the 30 Hudson Yards complex in New York City, United States.
Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. is an American television and media conglomerate, part of AT&T's WarnerMedia. Founded by Ted Turner and based in Atlanta, Georgia, it merged with Time Warner on October 10, 1996. Among its main properties were its namesake TBS, TNT, CNN, and TruTV. It also licensed or had ownership interests in international versions of these properties. The headquarters of Turner's properties are located in both the CNN Center in Downtown Atlanta, and the Turner Broadcasting campus off Techwood Drive in Midtown Atlanta, which also houses Turner Studios.
WCNN is an AM radio station licensed to North Atlanta and serving the Atlanta-area radio market. It is owned by Dickey Broadcasting and airs a sports radio format. The station is commonly known by the on-air branding as "The Fan". Local sports shows are heard weekdays with the ESPN Radio Network airing nights and weekends. WCNN is the flagship of the Atlanta Braves Radio Network.
The CNN Center in Atlanta, Georgia, is the world headquarters of the Cable News Network (CNN). The main newsrooms and studios for several of CNN's news channels are located in the building. The facility's commercial office space is occupied by various units of the former Turner Broadcasting System, now part of the subsidiary WarnerMedia. The CNN Center is located in downtown Atlanta adjacent to Centennial Olympic Park. The One CNN Center office building was acquired by CP Group, formerly Crocker Partners, and Rialto Capital Management in 2021.
WPCH-TV, virtual channel 17, branded on-air as Peachtree TV, is an independent television station licensed to Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Owned by locally based Gray Television, it is part of a duopoly with CBS affiliate and company flagship WGCL-TV. Both stations share studios on 14th Street Northwest in Atlanta's Atlantic Station district, while WPCH-TV's transmitter is located in the Woodland Hills section of northeastern Atlanta.
Cartoon Network is a British pay television channel aimed at children which airs animated programming targeting children aged 7 to 15. It is run by WarnerMedia International for localisation strategy for international markets and in conjunction with Warner Bros. Global Kids, Young Adults and Classics for the production of content and global leadership of the Cartoon Network brand.
Bob Neal is an American sportscaster.
Turner Sports (TS) is the subsidiary of AT&T's WarnerMedia responsible for sports broadcasts on channels including TBS, TNT, AT&T SportsNet, TruTV, and for operating the digital media outlets NCAA.com, NBA.com, PGATour.com and PGA.com, as well as Bleacher Report, and its streaming service, B/R Live. Turner Sports also operates NBA TV on behalf of the NBA, and owns a minority share in the MLB Network.
Rick Sirvaitis is an advertising executive in New York City and currently involved as an advisor to PlanetXLaw, Access Legal Care, TAPPP, Pypestream and Vizability. He is the Past President of Storeboard Media LLC, a media sales company with the exclusive right to place advertisements on security pedestals in stores across the United States. He is also President of his own consulting company: RS MediaMarketing LLC. He has been a consultant to such clients as the NFL Network, the Television Bureau, Gemstar-TV Guide International and Google TV Ads among others and has most recently been retained as an Entrepreneur in Residence for Constellation Ventures. He is also the former President and Chief Operating Officer of GM Mediaworks, the consolidated media buying unit for all General Motors divisions including network and cable television purchasing in New York City, as well as all print and Internet buying and a Cyberworks research and development unit in Detroit.
Turner Classic Movies was a television channel broadcasting "classic" films from the 1940s to the 1990s to Denmark, Finland, Flanders, Iceland, Netherlands, Norway and Sweden. The channel used English audio with optional subtitles in Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish. The channel was commercial-free and films were not interrupted.
TBS is an American pay television network owned by the Turner Networks division of WarnerMedia Studios & Networks. It carries a variety of programming, with a focus on comedy, along with some sports events, including Major League Baseball, National Hockey League, and the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament. As of September 2018, TBS was received by approximately 90.391 million households that subscribe to a pay television service throughout the United States.
Imagen Satelital S.A., doing business as WarnerMedia Internacional Argentina and WarnerMedia Argentina, is an Argentine commercial broadcasting company headquartered in Buenos Aires. It is a subsidiary of WarnerMedia Latin America, a regional unit of American media company WarnerMedia, and is ultimately owned by American telecommunication company AT&T. The company operates I.Sat, CNN Radio Argentina, and Argentine version of the television channels within WM Latin America portfolio.
James Donald Samples Jr. is an American businessman and media executive. He is best known as the Senior Vice President and General Manager of TNT Latin America and Cartoon Network Latin America from 2000 to 2001, the General Manager and Executive Vice President of Cartoon Network from 2001 to 2007, the President of HGTV from 2007 to 2011, the President of Scripps Networks International since 2011, and the President of the Management Board at TVN Group from 2016 to 2018.
Soumitra ‘Sunny’ Saha has been Senior Vice President and Managing Director of Turner Broadcasting System’s Southeast Asia Pacific business, and the General Manager of its Kids networks in Asia Pacific.
TNT is a pay television channel focused on movies. The network is broadcast in Africa under the TNT name, as well as in the Arab world as TCM MENA; the latter features its own schedule and optional Arabic subtitles.
Scot Safon is an American media executive who formerly served as President of HLN and Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of CNN. In March 2018, Safon was named Chief Marketing Officer of UPtv.