Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (often abbreviated TBS Networks or TBS, inc.) is the company managing the collection of cable networks and properties started by Robert Edward "Ted" Turner from the mid-1970s to the late-1990s. Their current assets include CNN, TBS, Turner Network Television, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Boomerang, TruTV, Turner Classic Movies, and over-the-air Atlanta station WPCH-17 (formerly WTBS, a near-simulcast of the national TBS).
TBS also manages Turner Entertainment Company, the holding company for Turner's library of classic films from most of the pre-1986 MGM, pre-1948 Warner Bros. and the RKO Pictures catalogs.
Turner Broadcasting also owns PC gaming service GameTap, online comedy portal Super Deluxe, and online shopping service Bamzu.
TBS, Inc. merged with Time Warner in 1996, and now operates as a semi-autonomous unit of Time Warner. The current chairman and CEO of Turner Broadcasting System is Philip I. Kent.
