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Turner Network Television (TNT for short), is a cable TV network created by media mogul Ted Turner in 1988. TNT airs National Basketball Association games, NASCAR and reruns of popular network television shows from the past.

TNT is similar to the TBS Superstation but tends to show more movies and has a few original series.

In 2001, TNT relaunched itself, with a new logo and tagline, "We Know Drama". It now focuses on sports and high-action movies with lots of drama and energy, and the "Primetime in the Daytime" weekday lineup featuring reruns of network TV dramas such as Law & Order, Charmed, NYPD Blue, ER, and Judging Amy.

A British version of TNT was launched in the 1990s (called TNT Classic Movies) but was exclusively dedicated to movies, mainly from the MGM and Warner Brothers archives. At the time the channel was combined with Cartoon NetworkThe Cartoon Network is a cable TV channel created by Turner Broadcasting and dedicated to showing cartoons. It premiered on October 1, 1992. History Ted Turner's cable TV conglomerate had acquired the MGM film library (which included the older catalog of Europe into a channel called TNT & Cartoon Network. It was later renamed TCMTurner Classic Movies (TCM) is a cable television channel similar to American Movie Classics (AMC) featuring classic movies from the MGM and Warner Brothers libraries. Unlike AMC, it has remained uncut and commercial free. It was started by Ted Turner in (Turner Classic Movies), presumably to coincide with the launch of the US channel. TNT continued to run in the UK but now shows newer movies, music and sports.

Time Warner subsidiaries U.S. television networks

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