Turner also purchased UHF Channel 36 WRET ( now WCNC ) in Charlotte, North Carolina and ran it with a format similar to WTCG.

By 1976, the station had expanded to a 20-hour broadcast day, airing cartoons like the made for TV Popeye episodes, the pre-1941 Porky Pig shorts, and the post-1948 Bugs Bunny shorts ; classic sitcoms like Dennis the Menace, Gilligan's Island and The Brady Bunch ( the latter two would move to WTCG / WTBS in the 80s ), family dramas, westerns, and religious programming ( including The 700 Club twice a day ) on weekdays.

On December 17, 1976 at 1: 00PM, WTCG Channel 17's signal was beamed via satellite to its four cable systems in Grand Island, Nebraska ; Newport News, Virginia ; Troy, Alabama ; and Newton, Kansas.

He changed the call sign to WTCG.

WTCG acquired rights to telecast the Atlanta Braves baseball games in 1973.

In 1976, the FCC allowed Turner ’ s WTCG to use a satellite to transmit content to local cable TV providers around the nation.

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.

In 1976, Turner bought the Atlanta Braves and Atlanta Hawks, partially to provide programming for WTCG.

During 1970, Ted Turner, then owner of a successful Atlanta-based outdoor advertising company, purchased WJRJ-Atlanta, Channel 17, a small, struggling Ultra High Frequency station, and renamed it WTCG, for parent company Turner Communications Group.

During December 1976, WTCG originated the " superstation " concept, transmitting via satellite to cable systems.

He significantly upgraded the station's programming and made it profitable almost immediately, as he did in Atlanta with what became WTCG, and later WTBS.

In 1972, the station expanded to 8 hours a day with another 2 hours a day of entertainment shows consisting of stuff higher rated stations and Ted Turner's WTCG passed on.

Ironically, WPCH-TV ( then WTCG till 1980 and WTBS till 2004 ) over the years was a stronger local station until the late 1980s and now that station is the subordinate station in this arrangement.

The edited version received its first television showing on CBS on the evening of April 12, 1968 ( an Easter weekend ), and has been shown on Ted Turner's WTCG and on cable several times.

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

It was the parent company of WTCG which became WTBS ( TBS Superstation ) with the Turner name change in 1979.

In 1970, R. E. Turner, Ted Turner then head of a successful Atlanta-based outdoor advertising firm, purchased WJRJ Atlanta, Channel 17, a small, struggling UHF station, and renamed it WTCG, for parent company Turner Communications Group.

WTCG went from being a little television station no one was watching to a major TV network that every one of the 24, 000 households outside of the 675, 000 in Atlanta was receiving coast-to-coast.

WTCG became a so-called Superstation and created a precedent of today's basic cable television.

WTCG was re-launched in 1979 as WTBS.

* The Post Office: Minnie Pearl and Grandpa Jones ran the post office who often dealt with ( mostly ) unhappy customers.

It was time to reclaim something that had always been taken from us .... All kinds of people, all different reasons, but mostly it was total outrage, anger, sorrow, everything combined, and everything just kind of ran its course.

Beck was a London Underground employee who realised that because the railway ran mostly underground, the physical locations of the stations were irrelevant to the traveller wanting to know how to get to one station from another — only the topology of the railway mattered.

The new Republican Party was not fully formed, and significant numbers of politicians, mostly former Whigs, ran for office under the Opposition label.

Mainland public transport is mostly limited to buses ran by Irish Government owned company Bus Éireann ; there are around 25 buses running frequent routes which pass through the majority of large settlements in Clare.

Moler ran a drug store and print shop, and the Times was mostly an advertiser.

The company developed and ran Potlatch on a model mostly patterned after that used by Pullman Company for its company town in Illinois.

During the Ancient Roman festival of Lupercalia young men ran through the streets with thongs cut from the hide of goats which had just been sacrificed, and women who wished to conceive put themselves in their way to receive blows, apparently mostly on the hands.

In 1988 and 1989 many newspapers ran reruns of Li ' l Abner episodes, mostly from the 1940s run, distributed by Newspaper Enterprise Association and Capp Enterprises.

Duncan was briefly replaced by Rufus Cruikshank for ten episodes after Duncan was injured when a horse bolted toward the spectators, mostly children, watching the location filming of the episode " Checkmate " on 20 April 1955, Archie Duncan grabbed the bridle stopping the horse but the cart it was pulling ran him over causing a fractured kneecap and cuts and bruises.

The Network Ten drama The Secret Life Of Us, which ran from 2001 to 2005, was set in St Kilda, mostly around Acland Street, Fitzroy Street and in the famous Esplanade Hotel.

These ran mostly on 600 mm ( 1 ' 11. 5 ") and 700 mm ( 2 ' 3. 5 ") gauge networks.

Pérez has stated that since the storyline's inception, which ran through the Wonder Woman comic and crossed over into others, he had trouble writing the War of the Gods storyline, mostly due to editorial problems.

Grey's first run for office was in the 1988 election, when she ran as the Reform candidate in Beaver River, a mostly rural riding in northeastern Alberta.

Freight rail once ran through the town, but is now mostly converted to the paved Ashuwillticook Rail Trail.

When Buyer first ran for Congress, in 1992, he faced three-term Democratic incumbent Jim Jontz in what was then the 5th District, comprising twenty mostly rural counties in north central Indiana.

Prior to 1914, each unit ran its own canteen, mostly contracted out to private firms.

From this junction to Logan the two highways ran mostly concurrent.

Jenn Vesperman ran the community in a mostly hands-off fashion, delegating almost all tasks including mailing list administration and website maintenance to a group of volunteers.

Osmond Carr's The Maid of Athens, ran for a month in June 1897, after which, said The Era, " nothing worthy of any record whatever has been attempted at this temple of the drama, which has had a singularly eccentric and mostly disastrous career.

He was often shown to hold strongly conservative political positions ( albeit to a lesser extent than in The Acadamia Waltz ), to the extent that the Reagan White House's policies, staunchly and unchallenged conservative especially at the time they were implemented, were only sometimes enough to satisfy him, with him remarking early in the President's tenure that he thought " Haig and the generals should run Reagan and his liberal pack right out of the White House ", though both he and the other ( mostly liberal ) characters became less hostile to Reagan's policies as both the strips run and Reagan's tenure ran on.

The left field foul line ran mostly North to South and was parallel to Fort Washington Road ( the western boundary of the park ).

From 1915 until 1955, a branch railway ran from Ulverstone to Nietta, mostly carrying timber for the Burnie Pulp Mill.

Afterwards, the strip ran mostly as reprints for the rest of the decade ( though Tom Williams and Evi De Bono drew strips for the Dandy annuals ), until Terry Bave took over.