Then in 1996, Time Warner bought out Turner, giving WB ownership of the Popeye series, although technically speaking these two franchises are owned by the various units of WB ( Turner and DC, respectively ).

library was technically under the TPS unit of Turner ( aside from the copyrights themselves ), as a. a. p.

Although call letters are not technically for sale, Turner and WTBS worked out a strategem whereby Turner gave a $ 25, 000 donation to WTBS with an agreement that WTBS would apply for new call letters, with a second donation of $ 25, 000 promised if the FCC were to subsequently grant the letters " WTBS " to Turner.

In December 1965, Edward Turner said the sale of small Japanese motorcycles was good for BSA, by attracting new riders who would graduate to larger machines, not anticipating that the Japanese would advance over the next 5 years to directly threaten British bikes with technically sophisticated models like the Honda CB750.

In 1996, Turner's company, Turner Broadcasting System ( whose Turner Entertainment division oversaw the film library ), was purchased by Time Warner who also owned Warner Bros .. Today, Warner Home Video holds the video rights to the entire Looney Tunes / Merrie Melodies animated output by virtue of Time Warner's ownership of Turner Entertainment — this is why their Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVD box sets include cartoons from both the pre-8 / 48 Turner-owned and post-7 / 48 Warner Bros. owned periods.

MGM bought in 1944 the rights to Gone with the Wind and, at some point, the 1937 version of The Prisoner of Zenda for its 1952 remake ( all today part of the Turner Entertainment library owned by Time Warner ), and 20th Century Fox still holds rights to the remake of A Farewell to Arms.

The Turner County School District holds grades pre-school to grade twelve, that consists of one elementary school, a middle school, a high school, and a speciality school.

It also holds pottery including Castle Hedingham ware and the Turner Prize winner Grayson Perry.

* Although WB / Turner holds the theatrical and television rights to Pink Floyd — The Wall, the video rights are owned by Sony Music.

* Although WB / Turner holds US rights to The Wind and the Lion, international rights remain with Columbia Pictures ( via Sony Pictures Entertainment ).

Turner Pictures folded into Warner Bros. after the Turner-Time Warner merger, and currently holds the distribution rights to the films made by the production division.

In 1996, Turner was purchased by Time Warner and is currently distributed by Warner Bros., whilst MGM still holds the rights to A Fistful of Dollars.

As a result, the film was part of the MGM catalog acquired by in 1986 by Turner Entertainment, who holds the rights today as a subsidiary of Warner Bros. General Spanky was released on VHS and laserdisc in the early 1990s.

Turner holds the patent on the graphite guitar neck, which he developed in 1976 with Geoff Gould ( who then started Modulus Graphite ).

Turner holds a B. S.

* 1978 – Thomas Wyatt Turner, American biologist and educator, civil rights advocate, ( b. 1877 )

American media mogul Ted Turner bought the rights to the Doraemon anime series in the mid-1980s for an English-language release, but canceled it without explanation before any episodes were aired.

Pope Innocent was, according to historian Ralph Turner, an " ambitious and aggressive " religious leader, insistent on his rights and responsibilities within the church.

In 1978, Turner struck a deal with a student-operated radio station at MIT, Technology Broadcasting System to obtain the rights to the WTBS call sign for $ 50, 000.

Turner kept MGM's pre-May 1986 and pre-merger film and TV library, which included nearly all of MGM's material made before the merger, and a small portion of United Artists ' film and TV properties which included few UA pictures, the TV series Gilligan's Island, the U. S and Canadian distribution rights to RKO Radio Pictures library, and the pre-1950 Warner Bros. library and the Fleischer and Famous Studios Popeye cartoons that both were once the property of Associated Artists Productions, which merged with UA Television in 1958 ).

It will skip a telecast in 1963, so beginning in 1964, first on CBS, then on NBC, and finally again on CBS, it will nearly always be telecast during the early part of the year until Turner Entertainment buys the rights to the film in the 1990s.

In 1981, UA was sold to Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer, and five years later, Ted Turner acquired the pre-May 1986 MGM library — which included the rights to MGM's cartoon characters like Tom and Jerry and Bosko.

TNT, as a cable service, was launched with a showing of the 1939 classic movie Gone with the Wind ( to which Ted Turner had acquired the rights ), on October 3, 1988.

On April 22, 2010, a monumental 14 year 10. 8 billion dollar agreement was reached with Turner Broadcasting to receive joint broadcast rights along with CBS for the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship.

Turner soon made a deal with MGM's video division for home distribution of most of Turner's library, allowing MGM to retain US video rights to Network for 13 more years.

Consequently, Warner Bros. assumed television and theatrical distribution rights to the Turner library, with video rights being added in 1999.

As of 2011, Warner Bros ./ Turner owns the US and worldwide television distribution rights to Network, while international distribution rights remain with MGM.

Time Warner acquired Turner in 1996, and thus inherited the rights to all of Hanna-Barbera's creative properties.

This excludes Gone with the Wind, which was originally released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and is now owned by Time Warner ( via subsidiary Turner Entertainment Company ) with TW's Warner Bros. unit holding distribution rights.

In 1986, the pre-1950 WB and the pre-May 1986 MGM film and television libraries were purchased by Ted Turner after its short-lived ownership of MGM / UA, and as a result CBS / Fox lost home video rights to the pre-1950 WB films to MGM / UA Home Video.

* During the course of a federal trial relating to charges of conspiracy to violate civil rights and assault under color of law of Frank Jude, Jr. in 2004 by several off-duty police officers in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a copy of The Turner Diaries was found during a search of the home of one of the officers charged and later convicted.

When he obtained distribution rights to all pre-1948 Warner Bros. cartoons in 1986, Ted Turner vowed that he would not distribute or air any cartoons from the Censored Eleven.

library ( The Popeye cartoons and most of the pre-1950 Warner Bros. library ) are owned by WB / Turner ( The only exception is Rope.

Turner Entertainment, after failing to buy MGM outright, settled for ownership of the library, including the Popeye cartoons, in 1986.

Time Warner owns all of the Paramount Popeye cartoons via their Turner Entertainment division, following several company mergers and purchases involving the a. a. p.

These libraries were used ( along with the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and pre-August 1948 Warner Bros. animated libraries, as well as the Fleischer / Famous Popeye cartoons, which were also owned by Turner at the time ) to launch Cartoon Network ( most classic cartoons are now on sister channel Boomerang ).

The Popeye cartoons ( including his first appearance, the Betty Boop cartoon Popeye the Sailor ) went to Associated Artists Productions ( and in succeeding years to United Artists, MGM and Turner Entertainment-today Turner is a division of Time Warner ).

In 1986, MGM's pre-May 1986 library ( also including the pre-1950 Warner Bros. library, Bugs Bunny: Superstar, the Fleischer Studios / Famous Studios Popeye cartoons, most US rights to the RKO Pictures library, and Gilligan's Island and it's animated spin-offs ), was acquired by Ted Turner and his company Turner Entertainment Co .. After the library was acquired, MGM / UA signed a deal with Turner to continue distributing the pre-May 1986 MGM and to begin distributing the pre-1950 Warner Bros. libraries for video release ( the rest of the library went to Turner Home Entertainment ).

Hosted by " Rowdy " Rudy R. Moore ( a marionette puppet of a young boy, who looked a little like Howdy Doody ), and his pet goat Gogo ( a live action nanny goat ), the show featured a variety of cartoon short subjects from Turner Entertainment's library, including pre-July 1948 Warner Bros .' Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies, MGM cartoons such as Tom and Jerry and Droopy, and Fleischer / Famous ' Popeye the Sailor.

Starting in 1960, the cartoons were repackaged into several different TV programs that remained popular for several decades before being purchased by Turner Broadcasting Systems.

Up until 1998, TNT would also show cartoons from the Turner library, such as The Flintstones, Scooby-Doo, the DePatie-Freleng Pink Panther cartoons, Dexter's Laboratory, The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest, among many others on a block called " TNT Toons ".

Ted Turner had expressed that he mainly wanted ownership of the studio's back catalog ; its launch of Cartoon Network on October 1, 1992 provided a new audience for Hanna-Barbera cartoons, both old and new.

* The 1975 documentary, Bugs Bunny: Superstar, is with Warner Bros., though it features several full cartoons in the a. a. p ./ Turner package.

The WB cartoons are under direct ownership of the studio itself, while WB also handles distribution for the MGM cartoons, owned by corporate sibling Turner Entertainment.

* Hanna-Barbera and Ruby-Spears cartoons that are based on Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, and Mork and Mindy are owned by CBS Television Distribution, along with The Little Rascals cartoons co-produced with King World and Harlem Globetrotters ( although WB / Turner owns The Super Globetrotters, though both Globetrotters series have been less frequently seen in recent years due to intellectual property issues ).

* Although WB owns the Super Friends cartoons and spin-offs produced by Hanna-Barbera as well as The Dukes, Turner never owned them-instead, these were always under WB control ( unlike the other H-B series now part of the WB library ).

Upon becoming a network affiliate, Turner sold about half of WRET-TV's programming to WCCB, including older sitcoms, movies and most of its inventory of syndicated cartoons.

They would introduce full cartoons from the Turner Entertainment library, such as old theatrical shorts and Hanna-Barbera cartoons, including the original 1960s Space Ghost episodes.

Clips of numerous cartoons from the Turner library would often pop up spontaneously during segments of the show, especially during the music videos.

) and Turner Broadcasting System ( which owned the color cartoons released prior to 8 / 1 / 1948, and the remaining Harman / Ising Merrie Melodies ; most of these cartoons had been released as part of The Golden Age of Looney Tunes laserdisc series ), along with the subsequent transfer of video rights to the Turner library from MGM Home Entertainment to Warner Home Video.