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89-653: Moses started his television career writing for the TNT comedy-drama Men of a Certain Age (2010–2011), and the HBO drama series Boardwalk Empire (2011), the later of which earned him nominations for two Writers Guild of America Awards . He also served as a writer and producer for the WGN drama series Outsiders in 2017 and the Showtime drama series The Affair from 2018 to 2019. Moses grew up in

178-570: A Jewish family in Berkeley , California , earned his bachelor's degree at Yale University , and his Master of Fine Arts degree in dramatic writing from New York University . He has taught playwriting at both Yale and New York University. Moses wrote the play Completeness (2011) which premiered at the South Coast Repertory Theatre before transferring to Playwrights Horizons , New York City. The play revolves around young people, in

267-661: A Half Men , Falling Skies and Sherlock ). In 2019, TNT España aired the first series they commissioned locally in Spain, Vota Juan . The channel was rebranded as Warner TV on April 14, 2023, discontinuing the TNT brand as an entertainment channel in Europe in the process. A local version of TNT in Turkey launched on March 3, 2008, by Doğan Media Group as a channel focusing on feature films. Foreign television series and movies were eventually added to

356-527: A broadcasting agreement to offer a weekly prime-time wrestling program on TNT—later named AEW Dynamite , which premiered on October 2, 2019, as AEW's flagship program—marking the network's re-entry into the professional wrestling scene following the aforementioned closure of World Championship Wrestling eighteen years prior. On August 13, 2021, AEW premiered a second weekly program on TNT— Rampage —which airs on Friday nights. In January 2022, Dynamite moved to TBS, with Rampage remaining on TNT. AEW would add

445-413: A few times in a row on certain days every year too. Now in favor of more recent films released from the 1980s onward, with an emphasis on films released after 1995. Presently, most of the films broadcast on TNT are of the drama and action genres, however some comedy films continue to air on the channel periodically. Films generally air on the channel during the overnight hours on most nights and for much of

534-559: A film in primetime with limited commercial interruption, branded in on-air promos under the title "More Movies, Less Commercials." In July 1989, the Turner Broadcasting System announced that TNT would obtain partial pay television rights to the National Basketball Association (NBA) beginning with the 1989–90 season , as part of a transference of TBS SuperStation's existing NBA telecast rights . As

623-683: A limited schedule of other classic television series in select other time periods. In its early years, TNT caused controversy among film critics and fans for its airings of colorized versions of many classics that were originally filmed in black-and-white . The channel launched with an estimated 17 million subscribers, its initial coverage totaling 6.8 times that of the largest previous cable network launch ( VH1 , which launched on January 1, 1985, with 2.5 million homes estimated to have initially received that channel). The channel's operations were based inside office space at Turner Broadcasting's Techwood Drive complex in midtown Atlanta that formerly served as

712-469: A mainstay of TNT since its inception. TNT maintains film licensing agreements with sister company Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (primarily releases from Warner Bros. Pictures and New Line Cinema ), Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures (primarily releases from Walt Disney Pictures (live-action only), Touchstone Pictures , Marvel Studios , Lucasfilm and 20th Century Studios ), Columbia Pictures , Universal Pictures and Paramount Pictures . Since

801-565: A new slogan: "Drama, Period." (visually displayed as "Drama.," with the TNT logo serving as the period symbol ), with the logo being recolored to match the themes of its shows. On May 14, 2014, TNT altered its on-air branding to "TNT Drama" and introduced a new slogan, "Boom." The branding campaign reflects the channel's refocusing towards action-adventure, sci-fi, fantasy, mystery, suspense series alongside its slate of crime dramas. The channel purchased subscription-television rights in September for

890-610: A nomination for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play . He has written for the TNT comedy-drama Men of a Certain Age (2010–2011) and HBO drama series Boardwalk Empire (2011), the latter of which earned him nominations for two Writers Guild of America Awards . In 2014 he wrote the book to the musical The Fortress of Solitude with music and lyrics by Michael Friedman . The musical premiered at The Public Theatre starring Adam Chanler-Berat , Andre de Shields , Brian Tyree Henry , and Rebecca Naomi Jones . The musical

979-444: A permanent host in cult personality and drive-in movie aficionado Joe Bob Briggs , who hosted a pair of more contemporary horror films each week, such as Friday the 13th Part 2 and Wes Craven's New Nightmare . During the wraparound segments within each film, Briggs provided a running commentary, trivia, off-color jokes, and a drive-in total, as well as jokes at the expense of TNT's Standards & Practices department regarding

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1068-680: A result of the league's contract renewal with Turner Sports . In addition to carrying NBA regular season games, which typically air as a doubleheader on most weeks, TNT also airs opening night games, the NBA All-Star Game , and the vast majority of games within the conference playoffs and one of the Conference finals (the Eastern Conference finals in odd-number years and the Western Conference finals in even-numbered years). Since 2015,

1157-619: A result, TNT's NBA coverage would consist of games involving other teams within the league, with TBS's rights being scaled back to only encompass game telecasts involving the franchise serving its parent television station WTBS's home market, the Atlanta Hawks (which Ted Turner had purchased from Atlanta-based real estate developer Tom Cousins in 1977). Under the initial agreement and a subsequent five-year contract signed in December 1989, TNT carried about 50 regular season and 25 playoff games during

1246-546: A smaller package of six mid-season Nextel Cup Series races per-season, beginning with Daytona's July race (by then known as the Coke Zero 400 )—which became exclusive to TNT under the new contract; previously, NBC and TNT held rights to the race in odd-numbered years, alternating with Fox (which carried the race in even numbered years; contrarily, the network not carrying the 400 would carry the Daytona 500 ). The contract lasted through

1335-646: A subscription television service throughout the United States. By June 2023, this number has dropped to 71.2 million households. Prior to the launch of the channel in 1988, the Turner Network Television name had been utilized by the Turner Broadcasting System for an ad hoc syndication service which produced and distributed various sporting events for carriage on Turner's Atlanta, Georgia superstation WTBS (channel 17, now WPCH-TV , which

1424-623: A third weekly program, that being Collision , on June 17, 2023; Collision airs mostly on Saturday nights on TNT. On April 8, 2022, WarnerMedia was divested by AT&T and merged with Discovery Inc. to form Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD). On April 26, it was reported that WBD had suspended original scripted series development at TBS and TNT in order to evaluate the channels' strategies moving forward. At this point, TNT only had two original scripted series still airing first-run episodes, Animal Kingdom and Snowpiercer , both of which are preparing for their final seasons. On May 11, Brett Weitz

1513-453: A version of TNT launched in Germany as TNT Serie . The channel shows a wide variety of older and recent American drama and comedy programs (such as 30 Rock , Murder, She Wrote , Monk , Six Feet Under , Seinfeld , ER , The King of Queens , Everybody Loves Raymond , Boardwalk Empire , Game of Thrones and Falling Skies ). TNT Serie maintains two audio channels: one with

1602-482: Is "Devouring Culture". Vulture debuted in April 2007 as an entertainment blog on nymag.com, the website of New York Magazine . Melissa Maerz and Dan Kois were the founding editors. The initial focus was television and film news, especially recaps of recent television episodes. Over time, it expanded to publish news and criticism in other areas of high and low culture, such as music, books, comedy, and podcasts. In

1691-444: Is a coming-of-age story about teenagers in 1970s Brooklyn . Marilyn Stasio of Variety praised the production but questioned its Broadway potential writing, "Is there an audience for this extraordinary show? Yes. Is there a Broadway audience? Maybe not" she added, "Make no mistake about it; this is no nostalgia piece, but the tragedy of friends who lost touch with one another and the music they grew up with." His most prominent work,

1780-461: Is no evidence that Turner had actually pulled its sports programming from the "original" TNT. On December 7, 2008, TNT unveiled an update to its logo, displaying it mainly in a silver or sometimes gold beveling . The "We know drama" tagline remained, but the channel added more of a focus on its original series and announced plans to carry three nights of original programming a week during primetime, starting in 2009. In 2012, TNT rebranded itself with

1869-716: The DePatie-Freleng Pink Panther cartoons were also featured. The Rudy and Gogo World Famous Cartoon Show , which ran from 1995 to 1997, was an original children's program on the channel featuring Warner Bros. , MGM , and Popeye shorts, hosted by a titular pair of a marionette and a nanny goat. In January 1996, the channel began scaling back its children's programming amid competition in that market from Nickelodeon and Turner-owned sister channel Cartoon Network ; at that time, TNT discontinued its late-afternoon block of animated series in favor of airing acquired drama series such as Starsky & Hutch and In

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1958-507: The European Commission and Mexican, Chilean and Brazilian regulatory authorities—was affirmed by court ruling on June 12, 2018, after District of Columbia U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Leon ruled in favor of AT&T, dismissing the DOJ's antitrust claims in the lawsuit. The merger closed two days later on June 14, with the company becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of AT&T under

2047-564: The Final Four -onward; until 2022, TNT and TruTV aired alternate broadcasts of the games tailored towards the participating teams, but this was quietly discontinued in 2022, with all three channels simulcasting the TBS broadcast. TNT televised the PGA Championship , carrying full coverage of the first two rounds and early coverage of the weekend rounds. The rights were held from 1999 to 2019, when

2136-598: The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) film library – which Turner acquired as a result of his 1986 sale of the MGM film studio to Kirk Kerkorian – and major television events, including made-for-cable movies, high-profile specials, sports events, documentaries and miniseries. Cable systems were given the option of substituting a superstation (other than SuperStation TBS) or other out-of-market television station for TNT upon launch without incurring any copyright liabilities for carriage of

2225-483: The Minnesota Timberwolves . TNT has been criticized for its practice of airing a significant amount of 4:3 standard-definition content stretched to 16:9 on its HD feed, utilizing a nonlinear process similar to the "panorama" setting on many HDTVs that some viewers have nicknamed Stretch-o-Vision . Though other cable channels have also fallen into this practice for their HD simulcast feeds, TNT has been

2314-646: The Stanley Cup Playoffs with fellow rightsholder ESPN , and will hold exclusive rights to the Stanley Cup Finals in odd-numbered years. In 2011, TNT obtained a share in the television rights to the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship as part of a comprehensive broadcast rights deal known as NCAA March Madness . The deal also involves CBS and fellow Turner properties TBS and TruTV . During even-numbered years, Turner holds exclusive rights to

2403-613: The Women's British Open and Senior British Open . ESPN assumed the Open Championship rights in 2009 . From 2000 to 2007 , TNT also carried the biennial PGA Tour-managed Presidents Cup . The television rights were assumed by Golf Channel beginning with the 2009 event until the 2019 event as part of its overall cable television deal with the PGA Tour, from the 2020 event and on those rights were transferred back to ESPN. Beginning in

2492-654: The 2014 season, after which NASCAR returned to splitting its media rights between Fox and NBC. NASCAR will return to TNT in 2025 for five mid-season NASCAR Cup Series races, with NASCAR holding an in-season tournament during these 5 races not too dissimilar to the NBA Cup . In 1990 , TNT obtained partial television rights to the NFL 's Sunday Night Football package in a comprehensive agreement in which games were split with ESPN . The NFL on TNT consisted of three or four preseason game broadcasts and telecasts of regular season games during

2581-629: The 2018 Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical . In 2024 Moses wrote the comedy-drama The Ally starring Josh Radnor as a Jewish college professor who deals with the moral quandary of being asked to sign a petition involving the denouncement of the state of Israel . The play was originally conceived during the Obama years and was slated to premiere in 2020 but was halted due to the Covid-19 pandemic . The production directed by Lila Neugebauer has received positive reviews with Sara Holdren of Vulture praising

2670-646: The 2018–19 season, Turner Sports held the rights to the UEFA Champions League and Europa League , the two highest levels of European club competition, under a three-year deal. 46 Champions League matches and the finals of both competitions (as well as the UEFA Super Cup ) are aired per-season on TNT, with the remainder streaming on B/R Live —a newly created streaming service run by its sister sports news website Bleacher Report . In June 2020, Turner Sports announced they would be ending their deal to broadcast

2759-677: The All-Star Game has been simulcast on TBS to prevent it from counterprogramming TNT, although in 2022 TBS experimented with an alternate broadcast of the game featuring the panel of TNT's studio show Inside the NBA . Beginning in the 2021–22 NHL season , Turner Sports holds rights to the National Hockey League (NHL); the contract includes rights to up to 72 exclusive regular season games per-season on TNT, predominantly consisting of Wednesday night doubleheaders. TNT also splits coverage of

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2848-490: The Computer Science and Biology Departments of a university, talking about love, molecular biology and computer science , while going through a variety of partners. Bob Verini of Variety in a mixed review praised his writing declaring, "[Moses] writes Completeness for both genders — quite well, too — with an unexpectedly fine ear for contempo sexual politics’ dizzying conversational loops". The play went on to receive

2937-744: The Heat of the Night . In 1998, TNT dropped all of its remaining cartoons, relegating those shows to Cartoon Network. Most of the animated series and shorts that were dropped would also serve as the core of Boomerang , a subscription channel devoted to classic cartoons that launched on April 1, 2000. During the 1990s, TNT scheduled a weekday afternoon block that included Due South , Kung Fu: The Legend Continues , Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman and Babylon 5 . In 1998, TNT made efforts to increase its original programming, bumping its production budget by 146%, with programming production costs running in

3026-632: The Latin American version shared space with CNN International . The Europe , Middle East and Africa , Asia-Pacific TNT channels were eventually relaunched as Turner Classic Movies, while the Latin American version retained the TNT branding. The most well-known TNT channel in Canada, Latin America, Europe, Middle East and Africa, Asia-Pacific was (and still is) the French version, which used similar graphics to what

3115-467: The MGM and Warner Bros. archives (however, the UK, Scandinavian, and Australian versions of TNT all broadcast WCW Monday Nitro (the UK and Scandinavian versions broadcast the show on Friday nights on a four-day delay from its U.S. broadcast), and the Latin American version aired a children's block called "Magic Box"). The European, Australian and Asian versions of TNT shared channel space with Cartoon Network, while

3204-545: The NFLPA originally called for 18 games to be broadcast by WTBS on Sunday afternoons and Monday nights during the originally proposed strike season, but was reduced to the exhibition games amid lawsuits filed by the National Football League against Turner Broadcasting and the NFLPA union.) The TNT syndication service also produced and distributed the first Goodwill Games —organized by Ted Turner himself, in response to

3293-685: The Olympic boycotts involving the United States and the Soviet Union of the 1980 and 1984 Summer Olympics —in 1986 . On October 6, 1987, Ted Turner announced the launch of Turner Network Television (TNT)—his fifth basic cable network venture, following SuperStation TBS, CNN, Headline News (now HLN ) and the short-lived Cable Music Channel —in a keynote address at the opening day of the Atlantic Cable Show in Atlantic City, New Jersey , stating that

3382-621: The Time-Warner Communications merger six years prior. (Time Warner and predecessor Warner Communications had owned an 18% interest in Turner Broadcasting since 1987, as part of a cable television industry-backed bailout of the company amid severe financial issues.) Under the terms, Turner would acquire an approximate 10% interest in Time Warner Entertainment as well as oversee its subscription network group—comprising

3471-633: The Turner and Home Box Office units and its minority interests in Comedy Central and E! —and hold a position on the company's board of directors (which he retained until he stepped down from the company in February 2006) upon the merger's closure. The merger received regulatory approval on September 12, 1996; the Turner–Time Warner deal was finalized one month later on October 10, forming what at

3560-489: The UEFA Champions League a year early with those rights headed to future rights partner CBS Sports. TNT carries limited playoff coverage from MLB on TBS , but only in rare exceptions where a long-running or extra innings game forces a bump over in coverage of the newer game temporarily from TBS to TNT until the earlier game's conclusion, when the coverage on TNT ends at the conclusion of the current half-inning and

3649-536: The WarnerMedia umbrella, with TNT, along with TBS, truTV and HBO being reassigned to WarnerMedia Entertainment, chaired by Bob Greenblatt . AT&T did not specify any timetable for the changes to take effect, although WarnerMedia had begun to remove all Turner references in corporate communications and press releases, referring to that unit's networks as "divisions of WarnerMedia." On May 15, 2019, upstart promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW) and WarnerMedia announced

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3738-411: The association itself, rather than brokered directly by each track owner). The broadcasts were a successor to TBS's past NASCAR broadcasts and originally intended to be carried by TBS, but ultimately assigned to TNT in support of its new brand positioning. TNT's coverage was initially a co-production with NBC Sports , serving as the cable partner for NBC's broadcast television coverage of NASCAR . Under

3827-596: The channel reverted it and made available the dubs; however, the channel also offers closed captions (which can be removed or placed by the user) on digital operators. TNT Latin America and TNT Brazil began operating high definition simulcast feeds in 2009. In Latin America, TNT broadcasts all of the high-profile award shows including the Academy Awards , the Emmy Awards , and the Grammy Awards . Feeds In January 2009,

3916-479: The channel was relaunched as TNT7, following the Turner Broadcasting System's purchase of NonStop Television owner Millennium Media Group . On March 21, 2012, the channel was renamed TNT, dropping the "7" from the name. On April 10, 2012, TNT HD Benelux launched in Belgium , carried exclusively on Telenet . The first month of the service was offered to consumers for free , with a subscription required thereafter to view

4005-501: The channel would center around major television events. Turner originally estimated that TNT would be offered to cable systems at a monthly rate of 10¢ per subscriber at launch (increasing to 20¢ per subscriber per month by March 1989), with 10 minutes of advertising being carried each hour (three to four minutes of which would be given to prospective cable systems for local advertising). Turner Broadcasting struggled to obtain carriage commitments from various cable providers to commence with

4094-549: The channel's brand identity. In 2001, TNT debuted what became its most successful original series at the time, Witchblade , which ran for two seasons, ending in 2002. On June 12, 2001, TNT underwent an extensive rebrand , with the introduction of a new logo designed by Trollbäck + Company as well as a new slogan, "We Know Drama," a repositioning of the network that Bradley Siegel, then-president of Turner Entertainment Networks, explained had emerged through extensive focus group research with frequent TNT viewers. The slogan emphasized

4183-522: The channel's new focus on dramatic programming, including sports and off-network syndicated dramas such as Law & Order , NYPD Blue , ER and Judging Amy . On January 1, 2003, TNT launched a substitute feed called TNT Plus , although it does not appear this was ever reflected in the channel's on-air identity. The apparent sole purpose of its establishment was to force renegotiations with subscription providers to increase carriage fees—with some multiple system operators suggesting that Turner

4272-433: The channel's proposed launch date. Plans called for TNT to offer 250 nights of original and live sports programming per year within five years of its debut. The channel launched at 7:55 p.m. Eastern Time on October 3, 1988, with TNT founder Ted Turner delivering a message about the channel's launch and programming, followed by a pre-recorded performance of " The Star-Spangled Banner ," which traditionally played during

4361-449: The channel's schedule. On January 24, 2011, it was relaunched as a general entertainment channel with the addition of new television series to its lineup. In 2012, TNT was rebranded as tv2 . The Scandinavian TNT channel was originally launched by tabloid newspaper Aftonbladet as "Aftonbladet TV7" on October 9, 2006. Aftonbladet sold the channel in late 2007. In August 2008, it was sold once again to NonStop Television . On March 2, 2011,

4450-570: The channel. TNT HD Benelux offers a mix of comedies, movies and current television series (such as Falling Skies , Shameless and Memphis Beat ), as well as reruns of older series (such as ER , The West Wing and Smallville ). The channel launched in the Netherlands on January 24, 2013. It was later launched on SNOW and Belgacom TV in Belgium; however it stopped broadcasting in both countries on January 1, 2014. The Polish version of TNT

4539-489: The comedy news site Splitsider from The Awl Network in 2018 and folded some of its coverage and its editor Megh Wright into Vulture . In September 2019, Vulture became a property of Vox Media when New York Media was acquired by Vox . In 2023, citing the lack of recognition for stunt performers , Vulture inaugurated their own Stunt Awards where awards such as "Best Stunt in an Action Film" and "Best Vehicular Stunt" are awarded annually. People who have held

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4628-510: The contract with the PGA of America ended—after which ESPN assumed the rights. TNT's golf coverage has since been limited to The Match —a series of charity match play events organized by Turner Sports that are simulcast across the Turner channels. In 2003 , TNT took over the rights to broadcast the Thursday and Friday rounds of The Open Championship , as well as the rights to weekday rounds of

4717-517: The contract, TNT held the cable rights for the second half of the Winston Cup Series and Busch Series seasons, carrying races not aired by NBC; the broadcasts shared their on-air production and talent with NBC's broadcasts. When the contract expired in 2006, NBC declined to bid on the next package. TNT would join Fox and new rightsholder ESPN as part of the next round of broadcast rights, retaining

4806-566: The day on weekends. Beginning in 1997, TNT broadcast a 24-hour marathon of the 1983 comedy film A Christmas Story from the evening of Christmas Eve to the evening of Christmas Day . The marathon also runs on its sister channel TBS beginning in 2004, when the annual event became exclusive to that channel and it still does now along with TNT airing it again at the same time starting in 2014 together on both networks. Beginning one hour early on TBS, one hour later on TNT and ending one hour early on TBS and one hour later on TNT. Each weekend, TNT airs

4895-563: The distant signal for the second half of 1988. However, the proposed launch date, originally slated for July 1 of that year, was delayed because it would have presented several issues, including obtaining channel clearances and assembling a programming schedule in such a contracted timespan, and the unfavorability of promoting a service during the summer (when television networks typically programmed reruns). On March 7, Turner Broadcasting System's board of directors unanimously approved Ted Turner's plan for Turner Network Television, with October 3 as

4984-590: The distinction as the flagship program of the now-defunct World Championship Wrestling (WCW) from WCW Saturday Night , ran on TBS until 2000. At one point, Monday Nitro was regularly the highest- rated weekly program on cable television. The program beat Monday Night Raw , the flagship show of the World Wrestling Federation (WWF; now the WWE or World Wrestling Entertainment), in the ratings for 83 consecutive weeks from 1996 to 1998. However, by early 1999,

5073-622: The facilities for CNN Headline News from its launch as CNN2 in January 1982 until it and parent network CNN moved their operations into the CNN Center downtown in 1987. Turner Entertainment Networks president Gerald Hogan stated around the time of its launch that TNT would eventually become "the first cable network to directly challenge the three broadcast networks," through the production of original programming that would be of "a quality level equal to and [..] significantly better" than programs carried on

5162-450: The first half of each season until 1997 . Abiding by NFL broadcasting rules, TNT distributed its game telecasts to broadcast television stations in the local markets of the teams playing in that week's game. European, Middle Eastern, African, Australian, Latin American and Asian versions of TNT were launched in the middle of 1990s, which were exclusively dedicated to movies, mainly from

5251-567: The flagship U.S. channel was using at the time. No version or feed for TNT exists in Canada though some of its programming is aired on Bell Media channels such as CTV Drama Channel and TSN . Regional versions of TNT were launched in Latin America in 1991; the channel mostly shows films, along with a few series. All programs used to be presented subbed in Spanish and Portuguese , until 2015, when

5340-517: The game moves fully to TBS (due to this, TNT's schedule in early-to-mid October is usually made up of little original content). In the 2011 and 2012 playoffs , it carried seven pre-scheduled Division Series games in full before Major League Baseball decided to use MLB Network in future years in a shift of scheduling to allow more night game carriage. In 2001, TNT began presenting NASCAR coverage , as part of NASCAR 's first unified television rights deal (where television rights were centralized with

5429-427: The heavy censorship of the featured movies. This running joke culminated in a Friday the 13th all-night Halloween marathon in 1998, where it was implied that Ted Turner was out to kill him. Into the 1990s, TNT continued to air cartoons from the Turner library, such as The Flintstones , Scooby-Doo , Dexter's Laboratory , and The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest as part of a daily block called TNT Toons ;

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5518-460: The inaugural season of its contractual rights. (TBS SuperStation/WTBS, in acquiring exclusivity for the Hawks, expanded its schedule to include 25 away games through the acquisition of Atlanta rival WGNX [now CBS affiliate WANF ]'s partial Hawks telecast rights.) In the early 1990s, some Hawks game telecasts shown on TNT and TBS were blacked out within 35 miles of the home team's arena. This restriction

5607-474: The launch of Turner Classic Movies, TNT's film lineup has shifted away from classic films outside of special airings of films such as The Wizard of Oz (which has been aired recently since 2014) in December many times in a row on certain days every year either before or close to Christmas time. The Wizard of Oz had also used to be aired on TNT in the past for several years in November close to Thanksgiving time

5696-480: The launch of a new Turner-owned network. Its inaugural telecast (which followed at 8:00 p.m. Eastern) was the first half of the 1939 classic film Gone with the Wind , a film to which Ted Turner had acquired the rights; the second half aired the following night at the same time (both halves were repeated at 11:00 p.m. Eastern on their respective nights), with the film then being shown in its entirety that Sunday. It

5785-493: The major American broadcast television networks; as such, the channel slowly began to add original programming and newer reruns within two years of its launch. The channel debuted its first original made-for-TV film on March 8, 1989, when TNT premiered Nightbreaker , an Arms Race -era drama starring Martin Sheen (who also co-produced the film) and Emilio Estevez . In September 1995, TNT debuted WCW Monday Nitro , which assumed

5874-460: The major broadcast networks. Original programs currently seen on TNT as of 2022 include Animal Kingdom and Snowpiercer . The channel's daytime, overnight and Saturday morning schedule is heavily dominated by reruns of current and former network police procedural series such as Castle , Bones and TNT mainstay Law & Order , while its weekday morning schedule focuses on sci-fi, supernatural and fantasy series. Feature films have been

5963-493: The merger of Time Inc. and Warner Bros. corporate parent Warner Communications —reached an agreement to acquire the Turner Broadcasting System and its associated properties (including TNT, TBS, CNN, Headline News and Cartoon Network as well as Turner Entertainment ) for $ 7.5 billion; the deal would also expand Time Warner Entertainment's pay television holdings, as it had owned HBO and sister premium service Cinemax as well as cable television provider Time Warner Cable since

6052-494: The merger on February 15, 2017; however, on February 28, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai announced that his agency will not review the deal, leaving the review to the U.S. Department of Justice . On November 20, 2017, the Justice Department filed a lawsuit against AT&T and Time Warner in an attempt to block the merger, citing antitrust concerns surrounding the transaction. The proposed merger—which had already been approved by

6141-531: The musical The Band's Visit , opened on December 8, 2016, at the Atlantic Theater Company . That production won the 2017 Obie Award for Musical Theatre Off-Broadway. After closing on January 9, 2017, the musical moved to Broadway. It began previews on October 7, 2017, and officially opened on November 9, 2017, at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre . For his work on The Band's Visit , Moses won

6230-490: The need for more wisdom than craft". TNT (American TV network) TNT (originally an abbreviation for Turner Network Television ) is an American basic cable television channel owned by the Warner Bros. Discovery Networks unit of Warner Bros. Discovery that launched on October 3, 1988. TNT's original purpose was to air classic films and television series to which Turner Broadcasting maintained spillover rights through its sister station TBS . Since June 2001,

6319-435: The network has shifted its focus to dramatic television series and feature films , along with some sporting events (including NBA , NHL , U.S. Soccer , the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament and professional wrestling shows AEW Rampage and AEW Collision ), as TBS shifted its focus to comedic programming. As of September 2018 , TNT was received by approximately 89.573 million households that subscribe to

6408-504: The next five Marvel Studios movies starting with Avengers: Age of Ultron . In 2016, TNT changed its logo after 15 years. On October 22, 2016, AT&T announced an offer to acquire Time Warner for $ 108.7 billion, including debt it would assume from the latter; the merger would bring Time Warner's various media properties, including TBS, under the same corporate umbrella as AT&T's telecommunications holdings, including satellite provider DirecTV . Time Warner shareholders approved

6497-438: The one most commonly cited since it was one of the first channels to offer such a simulcast. The nonlinear stretching process leaves objects in the center of the screen with approximately their original aspect ratio ; objects at the left and right edges are distorted. All HD programs are broadcast in 5.1 surround sound . TNT currently airs a mix of original drama and reality series , and reruns of dramas that originally aired on

6586-483: The original English language audio track and one with a German-dubbed soundtrack. In June 2009, the German version of TCM was relaunched as TNT Film. TNT also has a comedy channel which shows 2 Broke Girls , Two and a Half Men and The Big Bang Theory . TNT Comedy also maintains two audio channels: TNT Serie, TNT Comedy and TNT Film both launched high definition simulcast feeds in the fall of 2010. On June 14, 2021, it

6675-485: The performances and writing adding, "Pulsing ominously at the heart of The Ally is a question — a truly frightening one for artists, for scholars, for critics — about the more perilous face of nuance." In a mixed review from Jesse Green of The New York Times he wrote that while "Moses’s play offers eloquent arguments on all sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict" it lacks certain narrative stakes adding, "I felt

6764-534: The process of spinning off from New York Magazine , Vulture 's website was redesigned in 2010 from a blog format to look more like a "full-fledged" online magazine . Vulture subsequently moved to an independent URL / domain (Vulture.com) in February 2012. The first Vulture Festival, an annual two-day event featuring celebrities from various pop culture fields, took place in New York City in 2014. Vulture 's parent company, New York Media, bought

6853-477: The program began to lose viewers to Raw , which became the highest-rated wrestling program on television due to its use of more adult-like storylines . On March 23, 2001, the WWF acquired most of the assets of WCW, which had been up for sale since late 2000; Monday Nitro aired its last episode three days later. On September 22, 1995, Time Warner Entertainment —a New York City -based media company formed in 1989 through

6942-434: The proposed service's launch plans, making TNT's fate uncertain. Turner also entered into preliminary discussions with NBC to purchase a 25% stake in the company, with the prospect of using NBC's financial and programming expertise to get TNT off the ground; however, such discussions terminated by January 1988 without a resolution. By February 1988, Turner had disclosed that TNT's programming would focus around movies from

7031-527: The range of $ 175 million to $ 200 million by 2000. That year, TNT took over production of the fifth and final season of Babylon 5 from the Prime Time Entertainment Network after the ad hoc syndication block ceased operations. The following year, TNT produced the Babylon 5 spinoff series Crusade , which was canceled after 13 episodes, as TNT management decided that science fiction did not fit

7120-469: The renamed parent company WarnerMedia . The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington unanimously upheld the lower court's ruling in favor of AT&T on February 26, 2019. On March 4, 2019, WarnerMedia underwent a major reorganization of its broadcasting assets, in which Turner Broadcasting would effectively be dissolved, and WarnerMedia's television properties would be divided among three divisions within

7209-512: The time was the largest media company in the world. The channel was also known for its late night programming. One such program was MonsterVision , a Saturday night B movie showcase that aired from 1991 to 2000. Often the series had special themes, such as "Godzilla Bash '94," an all-day marathon of movies from the Godzilla franchise. Penn & Teller served as occasional guest hosts during its early years; and in 1996, MonsterVision found

7298-555: Was announced that TNT would be rebranding their channels into Warner TV from September 25, 2021. The TNT brand returned to the Spanish market in the summer of 2007, when it launched exclusively on the pay television platform Digital+ . As of 2012 , TNT is available on several subscription providers in Spain. TNT España is divided into two blocks: one exclusively carrying movies and another exclusively carrying television series (such as The Vampire Diaries , The Big Bang Theory , Two and

7387-411: Was dropped in 2000, allowing TNT the right to be the exclusive broadcaster of any game it chose to carry. TNT had regularly broadcast NBA games on multiple Tuesday nights until the 2002–03 season and again since 2021. The weekly telecasts were then moved to Thursday nights in 2003–04 season until 2021 in which it moved back to Tuesday nights, when TBS was opted out of rights to NBA coverage as

7476-516: Was initially a vehicle for older movies and television shows to which Turner either already held rights or acquired specifically for the channel; these films made up the majority of TNT's programming during its first six years of operation. The initial schedule also consisted of animated and live-action children's programs (airing Sunday through Fridays from 7:00 to 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time and Monday through Saturdays from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time), with western series on Saturday mornings and

7565-484: Was launched as Turner Classic Movies (TCM) on June 1, 1998, replacing the European version of TNT, Classic Movies. It relaunched in both SD and HD on October 6, 2015. On July 8, 2021, it was announced that the channel would rebrand into Warner TV from October 23. Vulture (magazine) Vulture is an American entertainment news website. It is the standalone pop culture section of New York Magazine . Its tagline

7654-520: Was removed as general manager for TBS, TNT, and TruTV; the channels are now overseen by Kathleen Finch as head of U.S. Networks. TNT HD is a high definition simulcast feed of TNT, which broadcasts at a picture resolution of 1080i ; the HD feed launched on May 21, 2004, inaugurated with the network's coverage of Game 1 of the 2004 NBA Western Conference finals between the Los Angeles Lakers and

7743-492: Was said that Gone with the Wind was chosen as the channel's inaugural program because it was Turner's favorite movie. ( Gone with the Wind would also serve as the first program aired on sister channel Turner Classic Movies , when it debuted in April 1994.) Incidentally, the film was set and had its premiere held in Atlanta , Turner's hometown and the headquarters of the channel's corporate parent, Turner Broadcasting System. TNT

7832-526: Was seeking a 10% increase in subscriber fees for the channel—to help pay for TNT's new NBA and NASCAR contracts well before the channel's distribution agreements with providers were scheduled to come up for renewal. In theory, TNT Plus was to have been the sole carrier of Turner's NBA and NASCAR coverage from that point forward, while any providers still carrying the original TNT would have seen replacement programming instead. Although it appears that Comcast did not immediately sign on to carry TNT Plus, there

7921-515: Was separated from its national cable feed, TBS , in October 2007) as well as broadcast television stations throughout the United States. The Turner Network Television syndication service launched in 1982 to produce two exhibition games organized by the NFL Players Association (NFLPA) during the NFL strike , which were broadcast on WTBS and its national superstation feed. (The agreement with

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