On November 10, 2010, Forte began making recurring appearances as a parodic version of TBS founder Ted Turner on the third episode of Conan O ' Brien's new talk show, Conan, which airs on TBS.

In 2002, WHPN was purchased by ACME Communications, a station group run by Jamie Kellner, a founder of The WB Television Network and former CEO of that network and TBS.

In addition, NASCAR coverage moved to TNT from TBS starting in the 2001 season, as Ted Turner believed that it would fit more with TNT's new look and theme than TBS.

TBS owner Ted Turner bought JCP and renamed it World Championship Wrestling ( WCW ) after the popular GCW TV show on TBS.

Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. ( often abbreviated TBS Networks, TBS, Inc. or simply Turner ) is the Time Warner subsidiary managing the collection of cable networks and properties initiated or acquired by Robert Edward " Ted " Turner starting during the 1970s.

In 1985, Ted Turner invited Watts to air his Mid-South Wrestling program on SuperStation TBS as an alternative to the World Wrestling Federation ( WWF ) programming that ran on Saturday nights.

Colorization was now unfashionable and unprofitable — even for Ted Turner and his colleagues at TBS.

In October 2007, Stone called postseason games for TBS, partnered with play-by-play announcer Ted Robinson.

* Network syndication versions ( and some versions of the cartoon that aired on the Ted Turner-owned superstations TBS and TNT ) edit the scene of Bugs Bunny using sleeping pills ( from a bottle labeled, " Sleeping Pills: Take Deze and Doze ") to get into Elmer's dream, making it seem as if Bugs fell asleep on his own.

In 1978 – 1979, Hooks appeared in Tush on Ted Turner's television station WTCG, which eventually became TBS.

The success of World Championship Wrestling's primary show, WCW Monday Nitro on TNT, led Ted Turner to create a new show, which would eventually be named Thunder, that would air Thursdays on TBS.

This allowed Turner to strengthen the branding of his " Super-Station " using the acronym TBS ; Turner Communications Group was renamed Turner Broadcasting System and WTCG was renamed as WTBS.

* Turner Broadcasting System, the media company that owns CNN, TBS, TNT, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Boomerang, truTV, & Turner Classic Movies networks

In March 2000, Turner Broadcasting System purchased the rights and now often airs the film on TBS.

2 Stupid Dogs is an American animated television series, created and designed by Donovan Cook and produced by Hanna-Barbera and Turner Program Services, that originally ran from September 5, 1993, to May 15, 1995, on Fox Kids, Syndication and TBS.

The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest, premiered on all three major Turner Broadcasting System entertainment cable channels ( Cartoon Network, TBS, and TNT ), and met with mixed ratings and reviews.

The company's current assets include CNN, HLN, TBS, TNT, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Boomerang, truTV, and Turner Classic Movies.

During 1979, the company changed its name to Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. ( TBS, Inc .) and the call letters of its main entertainment channel to WTBS, now TBS.

Turner Sports bought the rights to the game after the 1991 match-up and TBS became the home of the Gator Bowl for the next four years, moving back to a late December date.

Turner Entertainment also distributes films from the RKO Radio Pictures, pre-May 1986 MGM and pre-1950 Warner Bros. libraries, certain films from New Line Cinema ( 1994 – 1997 ), and shows from TBS, TNT, Hanna-Barbera ( 1991 – 1997 ), Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, truTV and PBS ( 1994 – 2004 ) on home video via Turner Home Entertainment, and after 1996, Warner Home Video ( which currently operates Turner's home video subsidiary as an in-name-only division ) ( see below ).

Sutton started his broadcasting career in 1989, splitting duties between Dodgers cable telecasts on Z Channel and Atlanta Braves telecasts on TBS.

In 1998, Cain started the Angry Dragon Entertainment production company, which produced the TBS Superstation television series Ripley's Believe It or Not !.

The same year, a short-lived live-action television series was started, and was aired on what is now TBS.

In November 1965, TBS started a dramatic television series modeled after the comic strip.

On October 1, 2001, TBS Radio started to broadcast.

Mindscape started as a two piece act, Matt Higginbotham and Scot Lee began appearances doing acoustic sets with a regional band named TBS in Cleveland, Ohio.

* Jimmy Vivino ( born 1955 ), leader of The Basic Cable Band, the house band on the TBS late night program Conan.

Scott Healy is a Los Angeles-based keyboardist and composer best known as the keyboardist for the Jimmy Vivino and the Basic Cable Band on Conan on TBS.

Giraldo appeared in Comedy Central's annual roasts, roasting Chevy Chase, Pam Anderson, William Shatner, Jeff Foxworthy, Flavor Flav, Bob Saget, Joan Rivers, Larry the Cable Guy, and David Hasselhoff, as well as the TBS roast of Cheech & Chong.

In 1980 Hickman joined the young cable television company Turner Broadcasting System ( TBS ) in Atlanta, Georgia, working with Nick Charles as part of a four-person sports department for the company's Cable News Network CNN.

On November 3, 2010, the arena was the venue for the Seoul Tokyo Music Festival, broadcast in Seoul and Tokyo via SBS and TBS respectively, featuring acts such as Big Bang, Kara, 4minute, 2NE1, F. T.

On satellite, channels that devote at least some of their program schedule to post-syndication reruns include Nick at Nite, TV Land, TBS, USA Network, WGN America, TV Guide Network, The Hub, Game Show Network, Boomerang, Nicktoons Network, INSP, RFD-TV, and the Hallmark Channel ; on terrestrial digital television otherwise-vacant subchannels may be used to carry Retro Television Network, Antenna TV, Me-TV, This TV or PBJ.

It was Satcom 1 that was instrumental in helping early cable TV channels such as WTBS ( now TBS Superstation ), HBO, CBN ( now ABC Family ), and The Weather Channel become successful, because these channels distributed their programming to all of the local cable TV headends using the satellite.

Discovery Channel is ( as of June 2012 ) the second most widely distributed cable network in the United States, behind TBS.

On the final day of the 2004 season, Caray announced that he had signed a long term contract with both TBS and Clear Channel to work alongside his father Skip, broadcasting games for the Atlanta Braves, staying closer to his family, who lived in Orlando, Florida.

TBS LA also handles advertising sales for Warner Channel ( owned by fellow Time Warner division Warner Bros. Entertainment ) and for the Brazilian action sports channel Woohoo.

A radio show titled Onsoku Hitomishiri Channel to promote the anime aired 13 episodes from July 2 to September 24, 2003 on Radio Osaka and TBS Radio.

Top cable networks include USA Network ( general entertainment ), ESPN and Fox Sports ( sports ), MTV ( music ), CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC ( news ), Syfy ( science fiction ), Disney Channel ( family ), Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network ( Children's ), Discovery Channel and Animal Planet ( documentaries ), TBS ( comedy ), TNT ( drama ) and Lifetime ( women's ).

The Chimp Channel is an American comedy television series which aired on TBS Superstation in 1999.

Aiming for a young male audience, TBS placed The Chimp Channel on Thursday nights at 10: 05 p. m.

" On June 9, one day before the Chimp Channel series premiere, Stern filed a breach-of-contract suit against TBS, Warner Bros.

These same original cast members were then featured in a new television sitcom version of this movie in 1985, which in its first season was a Disney Channel feature, then went on to be picked up by TBS and broadcast syndication, where it was retitled The New Leave It to Beaver and ran until 1989.

The entire operations of Channel 17 WPCH TV would move into WGCL's facilities and out of the original facilities for TBS.

It originally aired in Japan on TBS, while it aired in the US on BKN, Fox, Fox Family Channel, and the Sci-fi Channel, and on Fox Kids in the United Kingdom, as well as YTV in Canada.

In 2000, 2001 and 2003 he has appeared in documentaries for The Learning Channel ( Human Canvas Part I and Part II ), TBS, FX Channel and Discovery Channel plus a major appearance in the 2001 documentary film " Modern Tribalism ".

The show ran for four seasons from 1984 to 1989, starting on The Disney Channel, and later moving to the TBS network.

The series lasted one season on the Disney Channel before being picked up by TBS in 1986 and renamed The New Leave It to Beaver.

Satcom 1 was used as the launching ground for many cable TV services including HBO, Superstation TBS, the CBN cable network ( now ABC Family ), ESPN, and The Weather Channel.

It was the first satellite exclusively devoted to cable television, and carried many such services as HBO, Cinemax, The Movie Channel, Showtime, The Disney Channel, TBS, CNN, among some.