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20 unusual facts about Time Warner


1996 Indianapolis Colts season

This game has the distinction of being the first NFL on TNT broadcast after TNT's parent Turner Broadcasting System completed its merger with Time Warner, only 3 days earlier.

A Feather in His Hare

--Note that Sraightdope forgot the cartoon Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips, which was also taken down--> pulled from Cartoon Network's annual June Bugs marathon in 2001 by order of AOL Time Warner due to ethnic stereotyping.

A Slight Case of Overbombing

A Slight Case of Overbombing: Greatest Hits Vol.1 is collection of all A-sides of The Sisters of Mercy UK singles released since the band was signed to Time Warner.

Alexander Strategy Group

In 2004 the firm had US$8.8 million in revenues, with prominent clients such as Amgen, BellSouth, Eli Lilly and Company, Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, R.J. Reynolds, Koch Industries, Microsoft, Time Warner, Enron, and the United Parcel Service.

All This and Rabbit Stew

It was one of the 12 cartoons to be pulled from Cartoon Network's "June Bugs" 2001 marathon by order of AOL Time Warner due to its "offensive" to African-Americans.

DC Direct

DC Direct was the collectibles division of DC Comics, the Time Warner subsidiary that publishes comic books and licenses characters such as Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Flash, Batman, Aquaman and Hawkgirl, from 1998 until April of 2012.

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

The book was released on audio CD, with Sedaris reading, from Time Warner Audiobooks.

Duncan Falconer

Such was the success of the book, Time Warner publishing contracted Falconer to write two military-based novels.

Insider Exclusive

The Insider Exclusive television show regularly produces original Dateline, 60 Minutes, 20/20, and Prime Time style television shows for the public and broadcasts them on major cable networks such as PBS, CNN, MSNBC, Tru-TV, Fox, Time Warner and Comcast, Cox, Charter, A & E, Discovery, TLC, and Bravo.

Joel Osteen

His first book, Your Best Life Now, which was released by Time Warner in 2004, debuted at the top of the The New York Times Best Seller list, and has sold more than 4 million copies.

Kinney Parking Company

After a financial scandal in the parking division, the non-entertainment assets were spun off again in 1971 as National Kinney Corporation, and the remaining company was renamed Warner Communications, a precursor to today's Time Warner media empire.

Little Orphan Airedale

In 1996, Time Warner bought Turner, allowing WB to regain ownership of the a.a.p. cartoon package (technically held by Turner and WB's TV division), and then acquired video rights in 1999.

Painted Willie

Black Flag singer Henry Rollins tried to have it released in 1994 through a distribution deal he struck with Time Warner but Ginn still refused.

Pepe Moreno

He has also created a 1994 computer game, Hell Cab, for Time Warner's Interactive Media Group.

Redneck Nation: How the South Really Won the War

Released in 2002 by Warner Books, the book covers a wide variety of Graham's personal opinions on current and historical events in the context of southern ideas and a "redneck" political point of view.

Richard Bowes

A short fiction collection, Transfigured Night and Other Stories, was published by Time Warner in 2001.

Richard M. Berman

A year later, he was appointed General Counsel and Executive Vice President of the Warner Cable Corporation, a position he held until 1986, when he returned to private practice.

The Neutronium Alchemist

The first United States edition, which is broken into two volumes, Consolidation and Conflict, followed in April and May 1998 from Time Warner Books.

The Reality Dysfunction

The first US edition, which was broken into two volumes, Emergence and Expansion (the UK paperback is not), followed in July and August 1997 from Time Warner Books.

Zee Turner Limited

Zee Turner Ltd is a 76:24 joint venture between Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (ZEEL, an Essel Group company) and Turner India Pvt Ltd ( a Time Warner company).


1080i

In the United States, 1080i is the preferred format for most broadcasters, with Discovery Communications, Viacom, Time Warner, Comcast owned networks broadcasting in the format; along with most smaller broadcasters.

1994 in Singapore

The slogan/motto/tagline/crest of arms "No Sex, No Violence, No News" (Chinese: "無色情、無暴力、無新聞") whose shares are 60% owned by Time Warner (the conglomerate that is owned by Ted Turner who owns Turner) and 40% owned by News Corporation (the conglomerate that is owned by Rupert Murdoch that owns STAR TV) with programming similar to that of STAR TV.

BanxQuote

- a unit of Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: TWX); MSNBC Interactive News LLC - a joint venture of Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) and NBC Universal; AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL); LendingTree LLC - a subsidiary of Tree.com Inc. (Nasdaq: TREE); and Move, Inc. (Nasdaq: MOVE) operator of Realtor.com.

Cavan Huang

He works with clients such as; Canadian International Autoshow; CNN; General Electric, Rogers Sportsnet; Time Warner; and Toshiba.

CNN Center

The CNN Center also houses a major hotel (an Omni Hotels franchise owned by Turner Broadcasting, now Time Warner) and a large atrium food court frequented by local business employees, tourists, event goers from Philips Arena and the Georgia Dome, and conference attendees from the Georgia World Congress Center.

D Stevens

His work has appeared in many international magazines and books including the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) and book "Songs of My People" (published by Time/Warner-Little Brown).

Ellis Cousens

Previously Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer of Bookspan, a Bertelsmann AG and Time Warner Inc. joint venture, from March 2000; Vice President, Finance and Strategic Planning, of Bertelsmann AG from March 1999; Vice President, Chief Financial Officer of BOL.com, a subsidiary of Bertelsmann AG, from August 1998).

Explorer 8300

Several providers currently support external SATA drives, including Time Warner, Comcast, Cablevision, Rogers and Charter.

Guy Garcia

A three-time national magazine Awards judge, Garcia serves as a speaker and consultant for major international corporations, including Time Warner, Reebok, The National Ski Aeas Association, Kraft Foods, the Coca Cola Company, Nissan Motors, McKinsey & Co. and the Council on Foreign Relations.

HBO Netherlands

HBO Nederland (Home Box Office) is a Dutch premium television network, owned by a joint venture between Time Warner and the largest cable television operator in the Netherlands, Ziggo.

I.TV

i.TV’s financial backers include venture capital firms Union Square Ventures (backer of Twitter, Tumblr and other companies), RRE Ventures, Rho Ventures, Time Warner Investments, DIRECTV, and others.

Kim Sunée

She now lives in Birmingham, Alabama, and is food editor for Cottage Living magazine, a Time Warner publication.

KOB

Later, in May 1952, the KOB stations were purchased by magazine publisher Time-Life (now Time Warner's Time Inc. subsidiary) and former Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Wayne Coy.

KPHE-LD

KPHE-LD is an affiliate of CNN Latino a 24-hour NewsChannel with programming from Time Warner-owned CNN en Español and Telemax, a Spanish-language network based in Sonora, Mexico.

Mancini•Duffy

Recent high-profile projects include headquarters relocations for JPMorgan Chase, the CIT Group, Condé Nast Publications, and AOL; a headquarters build-out for Time Warner at Time Warner Center; new television studios and production facilities for NBC Sports Group in Stamford, CT; and an ongoing renovation of Bloomingdale's flagship store in Manhattan.

Media conglomerate

According to the 2013 Fortune 500 list, The Walt Disney Company is America's largest media conglomerate in terms of revenue, with News Corporation (now News Corp & 21st Century Fox), Time Warner, CBS Corporation, and Viacom completing the top five.

Nansook Hong

In the Shadow of the Moons: My Life in the Reverend Sun Myung Moon's Family is a 1998, non-fiction work by Hong and Boston Globe reporter Eileen McNamara, published by Little, Brown and Company (then owned by Time Warner).

Sports Emmy Award

The panels are organized so that they only have one representative from each corporate entity (i.e. CBS Corporation, Disney, NBCUniversal, News Corporation, Time Warner etc.) Most categories only have a single voting round using preferential scoring system.

Telestream

Many media and entertainment companies such as CBS, BBC, CNN, Fox, CBC, Comcast, DirecTV, Time Warner, MTV, Discovery, and Lifetime, as well as a number of users in a broad range of business environments, rely on Telestream products to streamline operations, reach broader audiences and generate more revenue from their media.

The Timothy Plan

Among the better known companies that don't meet the plan's guidelines are General Electric, The Coca-Cola Company, Microsoft, Starbucks, Time Warner and Walt Disney Company.

Twin Peaks media releases

North American rights to the Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me film are owned by New Line Cinema, a division of Time Warner (which also owns Warner Bros.), and is available on video and DVD through New Line.

Vivien v. Worldcom

The Vivien decision provided the legal framework for many similar suits filed by employees of companies such as AOL Time Warner, Reliant Energy, Cardinal Health, Tyco International, Merck, and Dell.

Yin Chang

Some of her other works include several national commercials such as Time Warner, Verizon Wireless, MasterCard, Best Buy, MTV, and Mead School Supplies.