For Jamaicans who were in around in the 70s

[Dr.Dudd]

Re: For Jamaicans who were in around in the 70s

What about WTBS?
Not even Super Station WTBS??<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SandiF</div><div class="ubbcode-body">TBS was never a news channel
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[RichD]

Re: For Jamaicans who were in around in the 70s

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Dr.Dudd</div><div class="ubbcode-body">What about WTBS?<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SandiF</div><div class="ubbcode-body">TBS was never a news channel
</div></div> </div></div> WTBS wasn't either

[Dr.Dudd]

Re: For Jamaicans who were in around in the 70s

1970s
In 1970, 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. Through careful programming acquisitions, Turner guided the station to success. In December 1976, WTCG originated the &quot;superstation&quot; concept, transmitting via satellite to cable systems.

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

[edit] 1980s
In 1980, the company broke new ground with the launch of CNN, the first 24-hour all-news network, forever changing the way the world saw breaking news.[clarification needed]

In 1984, Turner launched Cable Music Channel, his competition to MTV. The channel was short-lived, but helped mold and launch the original format of VH1.

In 1988, the company launched TNT.

[edit] 1990s
Turner expanded its presence in film production and distribution, first with the 1991 purchase of Hanna-Barbera Productions. New Line Cinema and Castle Rock Entertainment would be acquired two years later.[1][2]

Turner Broadcasting merged with Time Warner and has grown at a phenomenal pace and now reaches more than 200 countries and territories around the world.

[edit] 2000s
In 2003, Philip I. Kent succeeded Jamie Kellner as chairman. The former The WB Network was brought to the fold in 2001 during Kellner's watch, but returned to Warner Bros. in 2003 with the departure of Kellner.

In early 2006, the company sold Turner South to Fox Cable Networks creating SportSouth, a regional sports channel. Fox assumed control of the network on May 1, and at the beginning of the newest NHL season, rebranded it as SportSouth, coincidentally the former name of FSN South when Turner owned the network in partnership with Liberty Media, from its founding in 1990, until 1997.

In May 2006, Turner Broadcasting, which already owned 50% of Court TV, purchased the remaining half from Liberty Media.

Also in May 2006, Ted Turner attended his last meeting as a board member of Time Warner and officially parted with the company.

In August 2006, Turner Broadcasting, along with Boomerang UK, volunteered to edit and censor most of the Hanna-Barbera shows after Ofcom UK received a complaint that the cigar smoking in a Tom &amp; Jerry short was inappropriate

[RichD]

Re: For Jamaicans who were in around in the 70s

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Dr.Dudd</div><div class="ubbcode-body">1970s

In 1979, the company changed its name to Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (TBS, Inc.) and the call letters of its flagship <span style="font-weight: bold">entertainment channel </span>to WTBS, now TBS.


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[Wendy]

Re: For Jamaicans who were in around in the 70s

<span style="font-style: italic">Bway some a unu inyah well ole sah </span>

[RichD]

Re: For Jamaicans who were in around in the 70s

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Wendy</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style="font-style: italic">Bway some a unu inyah well ole sah </span> </div></div> yes we remember when bulla was 2 for a penny

[Wendy]

Re: For Jamaicans who were in around in the 70s

LOL Mi nat even know what Jamaican penny look like

[Peasie]

Re: For Jamaicans who were in around in the 70s

Dat well ole still.

[RichD]

Re: For Jamaicans who were in around in the 70s

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Peasie</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Dat well ole still. </div></div>yuh think that old ..i remember when sound of music did first come a Jamaica an dem carry us go Christiana go watch it