May 21, 2013 11:56 AM ET

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Company Overview of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.

Company Overview

Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. operates as a television and media company. It develops and delivers news, comedy, entertainment, animation, young adult, and sports media environments on television and other platforms. The company provides channels, Websites, and digital services in interactive and non-linear formats. It serves customers in the United States, the Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America. Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. was formerly known as Turner Communications Group and changed its name to Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. in 1979. The company was founded in 1970 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia. It has locations in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Ch...

Detailed Description

100 International Boulevard

One CNN Center

Atlanta, GA 30303

United States

Founded in 1970

7,000 Employees

Phone:

404-827-1700

Fax:

404-827-2437

www.turner.com

Key Executives for Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Age: 57
Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President
Senior Vice President of South Asia for Turner International India Private Limited Operations and Managing Director of South Asia for Turner International India Private Limited Operations
President of Turner Animation
Age: 52
Managing Director of Turner International Asia Pacific Limited Operationsand President of Turner International Asia Pacific Limited Operations
Compensation as of Fiscal Year 2012.

Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. Key Developments

Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. and MillerCoors LLC Team Up for Wide-Scale

Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. is partnering with MillerCoors LLC in 2013 through a variety of marketing executions spanning TBS, TNT, CNN, truTV, Funny Or Die, NBA on TNT, Bleacher Report, NASCAR.com and more. Each component is uniquely developed to reach the right audience for the specific MillerCoors brands, including Coors Light, Miller Lite, Miller 64, Blue Moon and Leinenkugel's, as well as new brands such as Redd's Apple Ale and Third Shift. Media agency Initiative was responsible for negotiating the deal on behalf of MillerCoors. Starting current month and going throughout the year, MillerCoors brands will appear in many of TBS and TNT's most popular original series through responsible product integration and set dressing. Through this one-of-a-kind, category-exclusive arrangement, writers for TBS and TNT originals now have access to incorporate a MillerCoors product wherever it makes sense to incorporate a beer, neons, barware, tap-handles and even trucks. This writer's wall approach will span multiple shows, with in-show integrations like Blue Moon within TNT's Rizzoli & Isles, which starts its fourth season in June; Coors Light, along with additional brands featured at the bar setting of TBS's Sullivan & Son, returning for its second season in June; Miller Lite within the current season of TNT's Dallas airing Mondays at 9 p.m. (ET/PT); Coors Light and Blue Moon within TNT's Franklin & Bash, returning for its third season in late summer; and Miller 64 and Miller Lite integrations within TNT's upcoming competition series, The Hero, featuring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, premiering in June. Additional series in which integrations may appear include TNT's Perception, Major Crimes, King & Maxwell, and TBS's Deon Cole's Black Box.

Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. Taps Giorgio Stock to its European Business

Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. has tapped Disney's executive Giorgio Stock to run its European business. Stock joins Turner Intl. as prexy of TBS Europe, Middle East and Africa in April, reporting to Gerhard Zeiler, prexy of TBS Intl. Stock was at Disney for 15 years, most recently as executive VP and general manager of Disney Consumer Products, Publishing and Retail, EMEA. At the company, he will be responsible for its webs across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, which include CNN Intl., Cartoon Network, Boomerang, TCM and Glitz. Move comes as Zeiler, appointed a year ago, restructures the company with the expected loss of around a third of staff.

Netflix Enters in to Multiyear Deal with the Warner Bros. Television Group and Turner Broadcasting System

Netflix entered in to a new multiyear deal with the Warner Bros. Television Group and Turner Broadcasting System. The company has inked licensing agreements for complete previous seasons of cartoons including shows from Adult Swim, Cartoon Network and Warner Bros. Animation as well as TNT's guilty-pleasure live-action drama 'Dallas.' Starting on March 30, 2012, Cartoon Network's 'Adventure Time,' 'Ben 10,' 'Johnny Bravo' and 'Regular Show' as well as Warner Bros. Animation's 'Green Lantern' will become available to U.S. subscribers on the Just for Kids section of Netflix. Simultaneously, Adult Swim's 'Aqua Teen Hunger Force' and 'Robot Chicken,' Sony's 'The Boondocks' and the Emmy-winning 'Childrens Hospital' from WBTVG's Studio 2.0 will come online as well. Then in January 2014, the first two seasons of "Dallas," which is produced by Warner Horizon Television and airs on TNT, will be made available.

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