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There's a swarm of people in the building with him, and everyone seems to be working on four things at once. The most pressing project is a scramble to get the latest edition of Road to AEW on TNT up on the fledgling promotion's YouTube channel. Editors jump from computer to computer. All Elite Wrestling's Oct. 2 debut on TNT is weeks away, but the rush is on.

And Cody is in his element.

He, too, is doing four things at once. Gossiping about Chris Jericho's recent lost-and-found escapades with the AEW championship belt. Keeping track of announcer Tony Schiavone as he fights his way here through traffic. Strategizing with members of his team as they plot out story arcs for a wrestling character called "The Substitute" that they invented on the spot when Cody found out that Charlie "Clothesline" Ramone, one of the jack-of-all-trades trainees in his entourage, used to be a substitute teacher.

Oh, and being interviewed. Constantly in motion.

The desk is not his, nor is the building on the outskirts of Atlanta, nor even most of the video team. It's all largesse provided by wrestling legend "Diamond" Dallas Page, who has let the AEW team all but take over his DDP Yoga studio as it launches what could end up being the first true competitor to WWE that wrestling has seen in decades.

When Page walks in, Cody quickly replaces his nameplate with Page's, a bit they would later modify and steal for YouTube.

The mood is light, and Cody's eyes are bright, despite a schedule that would break most mortal men.

It's an energy level that is both exhausting and exhilarating to be around—and those in his wake say this is how Cody operates nearly 24 hours a day. He isn't merely a vice president for the purpose of YouTube sketches. He's working hard, seemingly nonstop, on getting the promotion off the ground. If he's not in a conference call to discuss business operations and budget, he's in one for marketing or for creative concerns.

Or, as he will later this day, he's sneaking in a workout, a reminder that in addition to his many duties in the office, Cody still has to step into the ring and deliver a world-class match, whether against Sammy Guevara in the opening night on TNT or in a title match against Jericho at AEW Full Gear, the company's next pay-per-view, scheduled for Nov. 9.

It's a delicate balance—the same one his late father, "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes, pulled off for years as both one of wrestling's most potent in-ring attractions and one of its most powerful behind-the-scenes forces.

"I've never seen him not in this mode," Page said of Cody. "His old man was always positive, too. It didn't matter how gloomy s--t was, he never sold it. I would be like, 'Dream, how do you stay so positive?' He's like, 'That's the only way to be. You can't sell it, D. You can't let them feel it.' He was saying, 'Don't let them ever see sweat' before it was a commercial.

"Cody has that same confidence."

Schiavone sees the same quality. "He draws people to him. I think he's a natural leader like his dad was. His dad used to say, 'You've got to be able to walk a room like Richard Nixon.' Dusty always said that Richard Nixon could walk a room better than anybody. Dusty was like that, and I think Cody's like that too. I think you're immediately drawn to his confidence and the way he presents himself."

This, Page adds, is exactly what gave Cody the guts to walk away from WWE in the first place, despite being pretty much guaranteed a seven-figure paycheck and an all-but-guaranteed lifetime position with the leading company in his field.

He couldn't imagine life as just another corporate cog, a life where he never gave it his best shot.

"He wasn't afraid to walk away from the table because he knew he had something. Really had it," Page said. "And it don't matter who else sees it. He did."

And AEW will need every bit of that bravado.

Yes, it has the backing of the billionaire Khan family, which also owns the NFL's Jacksonville Jaguars among its many assets. Yes, it has a time slot on TNT, one of cable television's premium outlets (and, full disclosure, a corporate partner of Bleacher Report). Those are solid underpinnings to build on.

But entering what wrestling fans are calling the "Wednesday Night Wars," a head-to-head showdown with WWE—which is airing its own popular NXT show in the same time slot as AEW on TNT—this is still very much a startup trying to disrupt a corporate beast.

To succeed, it will need to summon every bit of bravado and energy and leadership Cody has in him.

If it does, it will be remembered as the culmination of a rivalry between two families as alike as they are opposites—families with the drive, creativity, energy and force of will to take a wild and woolly business in their hands and mold it into something remarkable.

While the leading roles in front of the camera have been played by Hulk Hogan and The Rock and Ric Flair, the Rhodeses and the McMahons have spent decade after decade battling for wrestling's very soul. Theirs is the story of two proud families, two distinct visions and just one business—one that the younger Rhodes is betting is big enough for both of them.

A Dream and a Rivalry

Dusty first became a force on the regional wrestling scene in the late 1970s and continued right through the fearsome battles of the '80s. Even in a world filled with big men and even bigger personalities, he was larger than life—275 pounds of blue-eyed soul who became one of the sport's true national acts thanks to the power of Ted Turner's SuperStation WTBS, one of the first cable stations widely available around the country.

His connection with the audience was legendary. In his most famous interview, he literally reached out to the camera, inviting viewers to do the same at home, to touch his hand so they might fight the good fight together. It's enough to give you shivers: emotional, powerful and poignant.

"When he talked, people f--king bought it," said Page, a family confidante. "Because he believed it. Invested 100 percent."

Dusty was savvy enough to make his greatest weakness a strength. Even in his younger days, tight perm shimmering with either sweat or blood, depending on how the match was going, he had a jiggle. By his 30s, there is no polite euphemism for what he was—a fat guy in a muscle man's sport.

Rather than work against him, his appearance was a differentiator. Dusty sashayed around the ring as the avatar of every guy in the audience who had gone slightly to pot but still fancied himself a tough guy despite outward appearances. He was the common man who hid heart, guts and sinew beneath a healthy protective layer of flesh.

But as big as he was in the ring, it was outside the squared circle where he truly made his mark on the industry. He had a vision for wrestling that was bigger than studio television, too big to be limited to National Guard Armories and the like in Florida.

His dream for America was an American Dream: big, grandiose, sometimes crazy and foolish—blood-and-guts action paired with powerful interviews—fueled by borrowed money and hope.

What it wasn't was boring, even for a second.

He created the modern wrestling supershow with Starrcade in 1983 and then powered Jim Crockett Promotions through the early stages of the wrestling wars with idea after idea—a series of stadium shows called the Great American Bash, an ultraviolent spectacle called WarGames and the cable television special Clash of the Champions, to name just a few.

"I don't think people realize the importance of what Dad did in the early 1980s," Cody said. "Boxing comes along later, but before all that, Vince and Dusty put pay-per-view on a map. And it's cool: Every year at the Hall of Fame, when my dad was still alive, he would kind of count the number of people who thanked him. Jokingly, he'd nudge you. Like eight people every year would say, 'Man, thanks Dusty for giving me my start. Without you, none of this would have happened.'"

The other version of wrestling was glitzier, a human cartoon. But while most critics preferred the Rhodes brand, Vince McMahon and his WWE won the wrestling war. Dusty had to swallow his pride, and in 1989 he went to work for his rival.

Put in polka dots as the "Common Man," he made the best of it, turning those yellow circles to gold in memorable, money-making programs with the "Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase and "Macho Man" Randy Savage. It was the Dream without the raw edges, and like most of what McMahon did in that era, it seemed to work.

"Him and Vince butted heads over many things," Dusty's wife, Michelle Runnels, said. "They had different ideas, and they both had really strong personalities. But he had nothing but respect for Vince and what he accomplished. Vince did a lot for this business. He took it from a world of regional promotions to a huge conglomerate. Dusty had nothing but respect for that.

"It was making money for the boys, and for Dusty that meant everything was great."

After a few years working with McMahon, Dusty went back to the WWF's competition until it finally closed up shop. He tried and failed with his own wrestling promotion in the southeast, spent time on the independent circuit, working well into his 50s doing the only thing he'd ever known, putting food on the table the only way he knew how.

Dusty spent his final decade working for the man who had bested him. When the McMahons offered him a lifeline and an opportunity to work with developing talent with their NXT brand, Dusty didn't hesitate. At NXT, he continued to fight for his vision of wrestling. Working this time mostly with Vince's daughter, Stephanie, and her husband, Triple H, he turned his attention to the future of the business.

McMahon may call the shots backstage at WWE Raw, but the passion and spirit that fuels the dreams of many WWE performers was nurtured by NXT's old oak, who often invited them to sit under his learning tree. There is a generation of budding stars who came through the WWE Performance Center in Orlando who call themselves "Dusty's Kids."

His legacy lives through them—and through Cody and Dustin, the original Dusty kids.

"Dad would be really proud of everything his boys are doing, especially Cody," Dustin Rhodes said. "He not only left the other company to go out and do his own thing, but he's actually attacked it and is in a position right now to do some amazing things. And I know Dad would be really proud. I wish he was here to enjoy it with us, because it's a fun time.

"We miss him terribly. We don't like to harp on it a lot, but we do. But we work and we keep going and we keep doing what he taught us to do. That's 'Do the work' as Cody says and 'Keep stepping' like I say. That comes from Pops. That's what we do. That's what our family was raised to do and what we've been doing for so, so long. I think our name, our legacy, is in a good place right now and we are continuing his legacy. And we will keep the name relevant and alive for years to come."

The Scion

Cody has been many things in his 34 years—athlete, actor, husband and executive, to name a few. But before he was any of those, he was a son.

"We were like the Addams Family," Cody said with a laugh. "We lived in a neighborhood full of lawyers and business people, and we were this weird family. [Dad would] come to the pool in his trunks, like his actual 'DR' wrestling trunks and his 300 something pounds...on the diving board. A lot of my friends from the neighborhood, that was their first exposure to me. Like, That's your dad? That guy?"

There is power in names. In some ways they define us, defying us to live up to the expectations that come with them or giving us something to run away from. For Cody and Dustin, their last name opened doors but also came with a price. Dusty spent a lifetime at the top of a very competitive industry, cultivating a few close allies and a much longer list of enemies and fair-weather friends.

So when Cody told Dad one day on the way home from Waffle House that he wanted to give up on an acting career and join him in the wrestling business, his father sat in his enormous F-250 pickup truck and cried.

"He did not want either of the boys to go into the business because there's a hardship," Michelle said. "There are expectations of them. People think they have it easy because of their father when in reality their paths were not easy at all. Dusty had been on both sides of the business, and he'd had a lot to do with people's careers. He made a lot of decisions, and most made one person happy and another upset. There was resentment against him from some people for a long time. And he was afraid those resentments would get transferred to his sons."

Dusty's fears, perhaps, were prescient.

It's easy to dismiss the big gold belts, to scoff at an athletic accomplishment that's gifted before either wrestler hits the ring for a match, but the truth is championships matter in wrestling. There is power in being positioned as the top performer in your industry.

And Cody, despite checking all the boxes one would normally expect a contender to check in his decade in WWE, never won a world championship.

Not that he'll give away responsibility for that.

"There's this long-standing kind of rumor that Vince has it out for the Rhodes family," Cody said. "If he does, it's deep in there. It's not...it was never on the surface. It's deep in there.

"What happened to me at the end of my career in WWE is not WWE's fault at all. Totally mine. It really is. I wasn't ready for the role I thought I was ready for. If you want to be John Cena, you got to do the exact same amount of work he does. And that's a lot of work. I wasn't doing the work that I should have been doing."

The promotion, right or wrong, never saw Cody as a wrestler at that level. And as uncouth as it is to admit, he craved it. He wanted to trade in the goofy gimmick he was wrestling under, Stardust, and ascend the few remaining rungs to the top of the card. The recognition could validate everything—from his decision to walk away from Hollywood to donning the face paint as Stardust to being a team player and making the best of every embarrassing thing he was asked to do.

Maybe it was parental and not professional judgment. Either way, Dusty saw things differently. He saw Cody as a champion, a talent with endless potential to achieve greatness. But by June 11, 2015, it still hadn't happened. Dusty Rhodes died that day of septic shock after a long battle with his own body.

The dream he inspired, however, was too big to ever fully pass into the great beyond.

"I got a boost of bravery when my dad passed away because all I ever wanted to do was be world champion while he was still alive," Cody said. "That was my biggest fear in life: I wouldn't win it. And I didn't win it. It was such a silly fear, but it came true. He didn't get to see it. He never asked for it. He never was pressuring me on it. It was my own pressure.

"But after that, I thought, 'I have zero to be afraid of.'"

Death crystallizes things. Powerful doubts and desires that might otherwise linger in the subconscious rise to the surface and demand action. Cody knew he was unhappy. He knew why. He even knew exactly what his dad would say about it.

"The one thing Dusty really wanted for all four children is for them to be happy and to live up to what he thought their potential was in whatever their chosen path ended up being," Michelle said. "Cody wasn't happy in WWE. Dusty would have said, 'Son, you need to do what you need to do. You do what is right for you.'

"Dusty made a terribly hard choice when he left Florida. Eddie Graham had been his mentor and had been like a father and was very upset, but he had to leave because he wanted the opportunity to be involved in wrestling on a larger scale. He would have understood and seen what was going on with Cody. I don't think he would have been surprised at all."

First Cody went to agents like Arn Anderson, telling them that he needed a change, that he wanted to put the Stardust gimmick away forever. Eventually, he found his way to Vince's office. At every step, he received pushback. And so, he and his wife Brandi decided to walk away. She gave her notice first, and that's when the company realized he might actually be serious about leaving.

"Hunter [Triple H, Vince McMahon's son-in-law and heir apparent at WWE] took it very personally because he had done so much for my dad at NXT," Cody said. "There was one conversation where he said, 'I'm shocked that you feel this way after everything I've done for your family.' But I told him, 'I'm not my dad. I can't stay here out of loyalty to you for giving my dad a job in 2005.' I get it, and the little boy in me really appreciates what you did for my dad. But I'm not him. He's not here anymore. I've got to be me. ...

"I think Hunter, he's been in wrestling long enough that he knew, 'Oh, this is a real one. He's not asking for more money. He's not asking for a title shot. Nothing would matter at this point.' I let the burn get too bad before I said anything, if that makes any sense."

WWE made an effort to keep both Cody and Brandi. They floated the pair contracts large enough to give pause. But understanding what the future held in WWE, Cody and Brandi ventured into the unknown, preferring the uncertainty of precarious potential over a comfortable stagnation.

"They made an offer," Brandi said. "I said, 'Thank you so much. I really appreciate you wanting to keep me here. But it's just not in my heart. I'm not going to be able to do what I want to do here.' And he said, 'Well, this is what we're going to do. We're going to go ahead and pay you through the end of your contract. You'll see real quick that money is going to go fast.' They were trying to scare us. Thank God we didn't listen."

Less than a year after Dusty's death, his younger son had cut all ties with the only real wrestling promotion he'd ever know—the place where he'd grown into an adult, met his wife and made lifelong friendships. When Cody posted the news, along with a list of all the dream opponents he could now face on the independent scene, the wrestling internet exploded. He was ready.

"I'm a big organizer and planner," he said. "So I had been in [WWE wrestler] Kevin Owens' ear, like, 'Hey, what does the world look like? I've saved a chunk of my money and I bought a home and stuff, but I want to make sure I can keep it. What does it look like out there?'

"And Kevin was the one who said, 'I'll introduce you to The Young Bucks. They're the masters of having marketed themselves outside of the company.' Me and Brandi were totally fearless in that moment. It was crazy."

Becoming the Elite

Cody took Owens' advice and connected with The Young Bucks, Matt and Nick Jackson, and through them Kenny Omega, who was building a reputation as the best wrestler in the world.

The Jackson brothers come from opposite circumstances as Cody—self-trained in their backyard on a trampoline and built, not with a famous name, but with a decade of grinding away at it until the audience couldn't help but embrace their passion and enthusiasm for wrestling.

"Cody likes to call us the extra-credit guys," Nick said. "It's really true that we had to do all the extra work to get popular and to get known."

The Jacksons convinced Cody to come to the promotion Ring of Honor for an extended run, scuttling his plans to be a nomad wandering the wrestling landscape like a character in the westerns his dad loved.

"It wasn't until after a few ROH shows that Matt asked me, 'Hey, do you want to ride with all the West Coast guys?' Which was him, Christopher Daniels, Frankie [Kazarian] and [Scorpio] Sky (the tag team trio SCU)," Cody said. "And in that minivan that they still ride in to this day was where all the fun wrestling stuff was happening."

The conversations were the cutting edge of wrestling, from "serious ROH stuff" to Being the Elite, the Young Bucks' viral YouTube show, which through hijinks like extended in-jokes and stunts like invading a WWE event has galvanized a fanbase looking for an alternative.

In the "Elite" stable of wrestlers, fans saw a reflection of themselves—like minds looking for an alternative to what WWE offered. And Cody saw a future.

"That's where I think they found my purpose in the group," he said. "My purpose in that group is as a promoter.

"We combine forces well. Kenny's a great bell-to-bell wrestler, Matt and Nick are tag team specialists, and they have this eye for the absurd and ludicrous. I bring my family's name value—not even my own: my family's name value—and my eye for the bigger picture."

Soon, events were getting so big and raucous that they had to hire security for simple meet-and-greets with the stable.

By September 2018, when Cody and the rest of what would become the AEW leadership team promoted the event All In, they didn't just sell out the Sears Centre Arena in suburban Chicago; they sold out the arena that holds more than 10,000 immediately. It was the proof of concept that solidified things, proved to Tony Khan that his instincts were correct, that wrestling fans were ready for something new.

"We had for two years straight a field test to see what worked with the audience and what didn't," Cody said. "And when we saw Buffalo, New York, was just as popular as San Jose, we were like, 'It's real. You know? It's not just Chicago. It's everywhere.' And we started to think about what might be possible."

At AEW's last big event, All Out in late August, Cody stood in the middle of the crowd and basked in their love, a sea of people who believed in him, who were on this journey with him and his partners, going wherever it led.

"We are in it together with our audience," Cody said. "And anyone who's like, 'Oh, let's see how they maintain their enthusiasm when you get to weekly TV.' Well, guys, how many times are we going to move the goalposts?

"The argument that, 'Oh, that's not a real audience; it's just a small group of hardcore fans.' That's a dead argument at this point. It's a very real audience. And there's a lack of crossover between our fans and WWE's, which is my favorite part. We had a lady say to us at the Houston Airport, 'I'm one of the returners. I was watching in the late '90s, and now I'm watching again.' And I thought, what a great way to describe some of these folks coming into this. Returners."

It was, as Cody dubbed it, a revolution. Others called it a cult. Either way, the idea Cody is anything but a superstar is downright foolish with the power of hindsight.

At WWE, at some point talent is slotted into a position. Changing that perspective, altering your destiny, becomes almost impossible. And Cody had been trapped in a maze with no exit. Perhaps that's why at AEW's first live event, Double or Nothing, Cody smashed a throne, symbolizing his freedom from tyranny.

"It's very romantic, very like Game of Thrones-style with these warring houses," Cody said. "When I left WWE in 2015, I didn't think, like, 'I'm picking up that sword, we're going to war.' It's a wild, wild series of events. There were so many combustible pieces that led to all of this. You throw them together, and suddenly we are in a situation where I'm standing in front of the Turner Mansion with Brandi, in exactly the same spot Dusty took the team picture with WCW. And we're taking another team picture with a billionaire NFL owner who's a mega wrestling fan, ready to launch another national wrestling promotion. ...

"Had Vince listened to me when I really wanted to make the transition back to being Cody Rhodes, we wouldn't be sitting here. It's that fragile."

Page sees it as the inevitability of a force that can't be restrained.

"I remember Cody telling me when he was in high school, 'Next year I'm going to win. I'm going to win the state championship,'" Page said. "And I said, 'Really? That's a bold statement, boy.' I said, 'You know what that's going to take?' He said, 'Absolutely. You got to put the work in.' He went undefeated.

"Look at his weight belt today. It says, 'Do the work.' You never know what's going to happen because this is a startup company. But this is f--king unprecedented. But I know that if it fails, it won't be because there's not a work ethic put behind it. Why do these people care so much? Because he does. When they say 'All In,' they're not talking about money, bro. That's them telling the fans, 'F--king A, we're going for it."

The Future

Back in Atlanta, when Schiavone finally makes it through traffic and arrives, he's wearing a brand-new blazer Cody just overnighted so he won't look the same in every video and is ready to film a segment for Road to AEW on TNT in front of a giant green screen.

The same harried team, led by Steve Yu, that makes these gorgeous promotional pieces has been tasked with creating a video opener for TNT. Deadlines for everything loom, and amid the excitement, there is also a very real sense that one major misstep could be the domino that topples a carefully balanced workload.

It's unique chaos in a way, but it's familiar in a startup.

Cody's consiglieri, Michael "QT" Cuellari Marshall, is there to offer support in all areas, with students from his wrestling school filling in wherever needed. One day, they might be building the throne that Cody smashed at Double or Nothing. The next, they're feeding his dogs during a busy day. There are opportunities here, to find hidden talents you didn't know you had and to step into the breach and be a hero. Marshall himself is a prime example of how quickly you can become indispensable in a company with more tasks than hands.

"We get to All In, and the guy we had hired to be one of our main producers in the 'go' position got drunk the night before, or he used something, and he got arrested in front of the hotel," Cody said. "He literally started up his car and passed out with it in reverse. He hit another car in the parking lot and got arrested."

Marshall, sitting nearby with a laptop, creating a mock advertisement someone will later clean up and present to a potential partner, continues the story.

"My student sang the national anthem at All In, and I drove her there. I was there to hang out and watch an amazing show. But when they needed someone, I stepped up."

Marshall had previously done commentary for Ring of Honor, which prepared him for the opportunity. "I used it as an internship to see how you did wrestling on TV," he said.

The team is filled with people with similar stories, people who breathe wrestling like it's oxygen.

"Now QT is an associate producer, and he's Tony [Khan]'s favorite," Cody said. "He sits in the go position for every match and tells the director and producer what shots to look for.

"We have a lot of will it into existence at AEW. Some of these guys don't have any specific reason for being here, but the only way you really learn about wrestling is to be around it a bunch."

The result is beauty in diversity.

You can see it in the promotion's YouTube channel, the Bucks' wild 'do-it-yourself' brand existing side-by-side with Cody's polished "Road to..." series that often features serious interviews like you might see ahead of a big boxing match.

And you can see it in the ring. While a WWE show can sometimes feel like a group of performers walking in lockstep for three long hours, AEW provides fans with multiple visions of what wrestling might be on a single show. Joey Janela is there for those who love hardcore stunts, the Bucks and Omega for high-flying precision. Cody represents a modern version of wrestling's yesterdays, the blood-and-guts style of his father presented in a package built for a 2019 audience.

"I think people want us to choose," Cody said. "They encourage us to choose. It's like, 'Well, what's it going to be?' It's all of it. Luchasaurus is on the same show with Arn Anderson. I mean, that's wrestling. I'd rather people have a lot of options."

And he has them.

"It's not just Cody. He's got Nick, he's got friggin' Matt, he's got Kenny, who is a force in that world," Page said. "And now having Jericho and [Jon] Moxley, that's a f--king strong six. And you don't need a strong 28. You just need a handful of people the crowd really cares about."

Cody will be the one headlining the next pay-per-view, against Jericho.

It's a decision that has opened him up to online criticism that he's already using his authority to treat AEW as a vanity promotion, the same kind of vitriol his dad faced in some circles when he made himself the top star in WCW.

"I tell Tony, I tell Matt, Nick and Kenny every day almost, I'm like, 'Man, we need a home run every segment.' Because there's a microscope on top of a microscope on what we're doing," Cody said. "When people are like, 'He's doing the same thing Dusty did.' I always want to say, 'Yeah, well Dusty was one of the most over guys on the show.'

"I could only hope to do what Dusty did."

AEW has four wrestlers in executive roles, both for their expertise and to keep each other honest. Khan, ultimately, will have the final say and settle any disputes. The key, Rhodes says, will be self-awareness and a keen understanding of the audience.

"All of us want to be in the main event. But if you're not, you're not. It's a nice checks and balances we have with Matt, Nick, Kenny and myself. There's three guys who are going to tell you, 'Hey, I don't think it's as big as you think.' Or, 'Let's move on this. MJF is becoming a megastar, let's go this direction.'

"An old-timer wrestler will tell you, 'Hey, we lead them,' and that is not entirely incorrect. We do lead them because we present the product to them. But if they drastically want something different, it is OK to let them lead us as well. And I don't think we're afraid to let them lead a little bit. If the other company had been more aware, even 25 percent more aware, we would not be in the position or even have this opportunity."

It all comes back, as it eventually always does in wrestling, to WWE. The question, a simple one, has remained the same since McMahon expanded nationally decades ago. Can big-time wrestling exist beyond WWE's ever-expanding universe?

For the first time since WCW folded, an organization will truly try to answer it—all because one man refused to be just a gear in the machine.

"They're going to make mistakes, and they'll learn from them. They already have, you know. It's a process," Page said. "They got the hardcore fans. Now it's how does that work to pull over to the casual viewer or the WWE fan who doesn't really know they exist. But there's a lot of wrestling fans who never flipped over after WCW died. They just stopped watching. That's the fan they need.

"This is a David vs. Goliath story. And if that can get brought across to the people well—David versus Goliath always works."

Jonathan Snowden covers combat sports for Bleacher Report.

#cody rhodes #all elite wrestling #aew #posted on: 9.30.19 #article #bleacher report

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Tips on Cutting the Cord and Saving Money

Some History and Context

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So, if you're looking for some tips to cut the cord without spending an arm and a leg, and want to do so fully legally, here are some ideas to keep in mind:

1) Do Your Research

Cutting the cord requires some homework. If you have traditional cable TV and are considering cutting the cord, I definitely recommend you take the time to fully utilize all that it has to offer. Most people are probably unaware that cable TV offers an on-demand option. Even if you do not have a DVR, most if not all channels offer an on-demand portal through your cable subscription that allow you to often not only watch the first-run shows a cable channel produces, but also syndicated shows and movies. Comedy Central's on-demand portal has all 9 seasons of The Office available, and AMC offers plenty of movies on-demand as well. It doesn't hurt to use the search function on your cable box, which should pull up all is available on-demand.

You may find the shows and movies you want to watch are right there in your cable subscription, but if they are not, or if you still want to cut the cord, take the time to find out who owns the shows you want to watch. The Office is a show that aired on NBC, and the show is owned by Comcast, who owns NBC. Knowing this, you can infer that The Office will be on Comcast's streaming service. However, with Friends, that show also aired on NBC, but the show is owned by WarnerMedia, so it will be on WarnerMedia's streaming service. Just because a show airs on a channel, doesn't mean the channel owns that show, so taking the time to find out who owns the show you want to watch is important. The Wikipedia entry for the show you want to watch will often list this information in the right-hand box on the page under "Production Companies" or "Distributor". If the show aired on a network like ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, or The CW, there's a chance they don't own the show. Take some of the most popular shows on the networks: Big Bang Theory airs on CBS, but is owned by WarnerMedia. Modern Family airs on ABC is owned by 20th Century Fox (at one point, not owned by Disney). America's Got Talent airs on NBC, but is owned by Fremantle. Keeping this in mind will at least reassure you that this is all more complicated than you think, but hopefully it will help you figure out where your favorite shows will inevitably go.

Not to mention all the over-the-top online cable services like YouTube TV, Sling, Philo, AT&T TV Now, and so on. Philo offers a sports-free service for $20 a month. Why so cheap? Because sports-related channels drive up the cost of cable. ESPN is the reason you pay so much for traditional cable, as ESPN charges the most in carriage fees. Cable companies pay cable channels a fee per subscriber. Because sports channels charge so much, the only way to get the cost down is to get rid of sports channels. However, if you need sports, Sling offers different tiers of packages depending on what channels you want.

I'd also like to take some time to discuss how odd television is. The most popular channels, you know, the ones everyone wants, can be had for free. CBS, NBC, ABC, and other networks regularly beat out pay cable channels, yet viewers pay for cable channels. The basic cable package has the most popular cable channels, and you pay more to get access to the lesser watched cable channels. It's the same with terrestrial and satellite radio. Odd. Anyway...

Lastly, research all the possible streaming services. There are plenty of free services out there that are completely legal to use. Pluto TV, Sony Crackle, and Tubi are just some of the services that you can use for free. These free services are ad-supported, and along with on-demand through your cable provider, this brings me to my next tip:

2) Learn to Live with Ads

Netflix has spoiled us with ad-free viewings. Just like Veruca Salt, "don't care how, I want it now!" I've fallen victim to this as well, as I pay extra for Hulu with no ads, and YouTube Premium. I'm not saying we need to love advertisements, but if you want to save some money, you have to tolerate them. Pluto TV offers an experience just like cable, but is completely free. You just have to live with about two minutes of advertisement breaks. Sony Crackle and Tubi, as well as others, offer a Netflix-like experience, just with commercial breaks, which are great opportunities to use the restroom. If you check around, you just might find that the content you want to watch can be had for free. If you can spare some time to sit through a few commercial breaks, you can save a lot of money.

3) Only Subscribe to What You Regularly Watch

Game of Thrones is a great example how how to subscribe only when you need to. HBO makes a lot of great shows, and broadcasts a lot of great movies, but how many of them do you actually care about? Take some time to evaluate what content you really care about. Now that Game of Thrones has ended, are there any other shows on HBO that you care about? If the answer is no, then cancel your HBO Now subscription. The same goes for Netflix: how much time do you spend watching something on Netflix? If the answer is low, get rid of Netflix. Then, when something airs that you care about, resubscribe. The great part about streaming services is they have no contracts. You can come and go as you please. Take advantage of this, and only subscribe to things you actively use often. Netflix is doing all they can to hook you into their service when Disney, The Office, and Friends leave their service. They know these shows are incredibly important to their business, and they are releasing as much content as they can to keep you subscribed. This may pay off in Netflix's favor, and you may find value in the service. But if you pay for a service continually when you only use it once in a while, that's a lot of money being wasted.

4) Visit Your Local Library or Thrift Store

Every time I drive past my local library, I simultaneously remember and forget it as I pass it, however last week I took the time to walk in and see what they have to offer. Every time I walk in, I'm always pleasantly surprised at what they have to offer. Of course, you'll find books, but you'll also find new release DVDs and CDs. The same can be said for your local thrift store, however, that may take some patience to find exactly what you're looking for. Your local library at least has an online database, so you know exactly what to expect. Part of the convenience of Netflix is the instant search and play, but with the popularity of the online streaming service came the loss of the brick-and-mortar video rental store. While your local library may not have the same quantity of DVDs you expected from a Blockbuster, at least it's "free." You might as well take the time to visit your library, that is something you're paying for anyway.

5) Buy A La Carte, or Buy Physical

Or at least price out this option. You may find that the amount of content you'd want to watch may not equal how much it would cost to just buy them as you want to watch them. Sure, some new release movies and TV shows may be $3.99 for a rental, and that sounds pricey, but Netflix costs some $13 a month. Some rentals may even be 99 cents, so you really have to see how much the content you want to watch costs. Or, visit your local brick-and-mortar stores to see what Redbox has to offer, or Target or Walmart's entertainment section has. Buying the DVD may be pricey, but if you really like the content, you'll get a ton of great special features, and the content doesn't expire like on Netflix: you keep your copy as long as your DVD survives.

The good news about the future of entertainment is we have a lot of choices in what we want to use to watch. It's always a good idea to be aware of what kinds of choices you have, and to understand that you may not even need to spend all that much. Just get yourself a TV antenna, and get used to a service like Pluto TV if you don't want a monthly fee. Or, there are plenty of cheap plans you can find. Or you may find that cable works for you. Do what you want, but understand that you have options.

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TBS (TV channel)

Tanna broadcasting station is an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by the Turner Broadcasting System division of Time Warner which shares its name with the channel TBS carries a variety of programming with a focus on comedy along with some sports events including Major League Baseball and portions of the NCAA Men��s Division one basketball championship as of February 2015 TBS is available to approximately ninety six point five million pay television households in the United States availability TBS is available on cable and satellite providers throughout the entire United States until October 1st 2007 the national TBS feed could not be viewed within its home market in the Atlanta metropolitan area due to be over-the-air presence of WTBS which carried a nearly identical schedule with the only different programming being children programs that meet the Federal Communications Commission’s educational programming guidelines and public affairs programming the operations of WTBS and TBS super station were separated in october 2007 with the over-the-air atlanta station becoming WP CH TV a general entertainment independent station focused solely on the Atlanta area the national TBS feed became available to cable and satellite subscribers within channel 17s viewing area as a result TBS is programming was previously made available to cable and satellite subscribers in Canada through the WTBS Atlanta feed however the Canadian radio-television and Telecommunications Commission had only approved the Atlanta stations broadcast signal to be carried on cable and satellite providers domestically across Canada not the TBS cable feed as a result following the separation of TBS and wtbs WP CH in 2007 Canadian cable and satellite subscribers received access to WP CH Atlanta instead of TBS most of TBS is flagship programming such as Major League Baseball and original theories are not broadcast on WPC HTV but are instead carried on other Canadian speciality channels history equals early years equals TBS originated as a broadcast television station in Atlanta Georgia that operated on UHF channel 17 and maintained a general entertainment format as an independent station the station first signed on the air on September 1st 1967 as WJ RJ TV Ted Turner required the station from its founder Atlanta entrepreneur Jack Rice jr.

in January 1970 and changed the call letters to wtcg which officially stood for return a communications group although the station used what this channel grow as a promotional slogan beginning in the early 1970s wtcg was microwave linked to many areas of the southeastern United States through cable providers who picked up the UHF signal affair and microwaved the signal back to there he attends early programming included movies from the 1930s and 1940s sitcoms and Japanese animated series the station also carried sports such as Atlanta Braves baseball Atlanta Hawks basketball Atlanta Flames hockey and Georgia Championship Wrestling wtcg also bid very low on programming leaving the network affiliated stations in the market a euro WSB TV Waga TV and wXII a TV a euro to require the stronger shows but because of programming commitments that the affiliate set of their networks those stations kept the shows for only a few years at a time and rarely renewed them after which wtcg bought the syndicated shows secondhand at much lower prices by the mid-1970s The Andy Griffith Show The Flintstones Leave It to Beaver The Little Rascals my three sons Star Trek The Three Stooges and many others were added to the station’s schedule in 1976 most US cities below the top 20 media markets lacked independent state running general entertainment programs and generally had only stations affiliated with ABC NBC and CBS along with a non-commercial educational station cable providers in these areas carried stations from neighboring markets and if possible an independent station equals wtcg gets beamed via satellite equals ted turner decided to distribute his station through satellite enabling wtcg to be received nationwide especially in markets lacking even a distant independent station at 1:00 p.

Eastern Time on December 17th 1976 WTC jeez signal was beamed via the SATCOM one satellite to cable systems in Grand Island Nebraska Newport News Virginia Troy Alabama and Newton Kansas the first broadcast was the 1948 Donna Andrews cesar romero film deep waters which had been in progress for 30 minutes on channel 17 in atlanta instantly wtcg went from being a small independent television station that was available only in georgia and neighboring states to a major coast-to-coast operation wtcg became a so-called super station and set a precedent for today’s basic cable television by 1978 wtcg was carried on cable providers in all 50 states TBS became only the second u.

cable channel to transmit its programming via satellite HBO began to distribute its signal nationally through satellite transmission on September 30th 1975 but cable subscribers were required to pay extra to receive that service Ted Turner’s innovation signaled the start of the basic cable revolution equals initial change to wtbs equals wtcg changed its callsign to wtbs on august 27 1979 the new call letters were acquired via a monetary donation to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology student radio station for the construction of a new transmitter in the late is WTBS continued to acquire second-hand programming such as made-for-tv Popeye cartoons The Brady Bunch The Munsters and other programs the station acquired reruns of all in the family in Sanford & Son in 1979 as well as Little House on the Prairie and chips in 1981 other older shows would eventually be removed from the schedule wtcg also mixed more movie releases from the 1950s through the 1970s into its schedule the channel 17 transmitter was originally located at 1018 West Peachtree Street Northwest with the antenna located on a large self-supporting tower the building at this site was once home to the studios of CBS affiliate WAG ATV and later channel 17 during its first three years as WJ RJ TV soon after being purchased by Turner the station moved to new studio facilities a few blocks west of the former site of the progressive Club initially wtcg was identified as channel 17 both locally in Atlanta and on cable providers outside of that area the same shows that ran on the local Atlanta broadcast were also aired nationally after the station adopted WTBS as its call sign Turner branded the station as superstation WTBS with reference within the logo to the channel 17 frequency in Atlanta many cable providers throughout the country even carried it on channel 17 in 1981 Turner decided to have all of the shows carried by wtbs continued to air both locally and nationally but separated the feeds the station would be branded in Atlanta a super station 17 and would continue to air local commercials as well nationally though the station would not mention the channel number 17 and would use logos identifying it only as superstation WTBS separate national advertising or / enquiry ads would air on the superstation feed metro-goldwyn-mayer library during the 1980s WTBS focused heavily on move running two films during the day and a movie exclusive scheduled during the nighttime hours after 8 p.

with the exception of sports events at other times WTBS continued to run mostly classic sitcoms and vintage cartoons in 1986 when Ted Turner purchased metro-goldwyn-mayer WTBS gained the rights to the entire MGM film library it gave WTBS the rights to air many theatrical cartoon shorts such as Tom and Jerry as well as shows like Gilligan’s Island and chips along with Tom and Jerry WTBS began to run the little rascals Looney Tunes Merrie Melodies cartoons released prior to august 1948 theatrical popeye cartoon shorts and Three Stooges shorts under the banner the TBS Tom and Jerry funhouse running for either one hour or 90 minutes during the morning hours and for an hour in the afternoon from 1986 until the mid-1990s in the late 1980s WTBS decreased the amount of movies broadcast during the day slightly and began to add sitcoms from the 1970s to the evening lineup Little House on the Prairie aired during the late mornings continuously from 1986 to 2003 other programming music videos also aired during its late night lineup on weekends from 1983 to 1992 as part of the program night tracks with up to 14 hours of programming beginning in 1991 a handful of shows that were shared nationally were preempted in the Atlanta market in order to broadcast FCC mandated news public affairs and children’s programming a euro continuing until the split of the TBS national feed from the Atlanta station TBS was also the television home of World Championship Wrestling it carried the weekly show WCW Saturday night from 1992 to 2000 and was the flagship program for the WCW before Monday nitro launched in 1995 on sister channel TNT another WCW show WCW Thunder debuted in 1998 on Thursday night the program was moved to wednesdays in 2000 before it was canceled in 2001 when TBS executive Jamie Kellner determined that wrestling did not fit the demographics of either TBS or TNT and would not be favorable enough to get the right advertisers to buy airtime even though thunder was the highest-rated show on the channel at the time throughout the 1980s in the early 1990s TBS also carried the Elektra teletext service on its vertical blanking interval Elektra was discontinued in 1993 due to a lack of funding in the early 1990s shows such as The Flintstones The Brady Bunch Scooby Doo The Jetsons Looney Tunes Merrie Melodies shorts Gilligan’s Island and others remained on the schedule as other older shows such as The Three Stooges and Little Rascals shorts and Leave It to Beaver were dropped from the channel to make way for more sitcoms from the 1980s such as Three’s Company who’s the boss growing pains The Cosby Show family ties and Saved by the Bell original animated programs such as Captain Planet and the Planeteers two stupid dogs and SWAT cats the radical squadron were also added in 1996 the Turner Broadcasting System was acquired by Time Warner among the programming changes instituted after the merger was the addition of Looney Tunes Merrie Melodies cartoons that were released after August 1st 1948 they began airing in January 1997 equals– shift towards comedy equals in 1997 TBS began to collect subscriber fees directly from cable operators effectively causing the national feed to begin operating under the conventions of a basic cable channel although it was still technically designated as a super station in exchange TBS began to lease advertising slots to cable providers to allow them to locally insert commercials in the provider service area as a result the channel began to broadcast fewer Atlanta Braves regular season games to a national audience in 1998 WTBS dropped all of its remaining card with those shows migrating to Cartoon Network and becoming the core of a new cable channel devoted to classic cartoons that launched several months later called boomerang wtbs continued to run a mix of movies sitcoms and drama series by 2001 several sitcoms from the 1980s and 1990s such as full house Family Matters The Cosby Show friends Seon Feld and Home Improvement became part of the schedule many of them airing as part of the afternoon non-stop comedy block by 2002 in 2003 WTBS dropped Little House on the Prairie and other dramatic programming as a part of its new focus on comedic programs such as sitcom reruns original reality television series and theatrically released comedy films as part of this focus TBS adopted the slogan very funny and introduced a new logo in June 2004 the refocusing is intended as a direct contrast to sister channel TNT which had focused on older movies initially but moved toward and now focuses on drama series and films equals split from the Atlanta signal equals in late June 2007 the Turner Broadcasting System announced that WTBS would change its callsign to WP CH TV and would be rebranded as peachtree TV the rebranded channel 17 would offer sitcoms and movies geared specifically toward the station’s Atlanta audience and would also broadcast 45 Atlanta Braves baseball games starting with the 2008 season the change occurred on October 1st with the national feet becoming a separate cable channel that retained the TBS name in addition the channel 17 changeover allowed cable and satellite subscribers in the Atlanta market a gyro which previously received wtbs is local Atlanta signal a gyro to receive the national TBS feed for the first time since the early 1980s following the change Canadian cable providers were legally required to continue carrying the local peachtree TV signal instead of switching to the national TBS fee beginning with the 2008 season TBS began airing Major League Baseball postseason games with regular season baseball coverage expanding to include games from other MLB teams in November 2009 TBS debuted its first late-night talk show Lopez Tonight hosted by comedian George Lopez one year later the channel expanded its late-night offerings with the November 8 2010 debut of Conan after TBS struck a deal to give Conan O'Brien a show on the channel on the heels of his controversial exit as host of NBC’s The Tonight Show Lopez Tonight ended its run on August 12 2011 after it was cancelled due to a steep decline in ratings in 2011 TBS also obtained the partial cable television rights to the NCAA Men’s Division one basketball championship a euro which it shares with Turner own sister channels TNT and tear u TV along with the tournament’s longtime broadcaster CBS during the first quarter of 2012 TBS is fuchsia in the 18 to 49 adult demographic beat all other advertiser supported cable channels in spite of the fact that TBS did not air any original programs in primetime during that period nor had it aired a show among the 50 highest rated cable programs the channels third late-night talk show the Pete Holmes show debuted on October 28 2013 hosted by comedian Pete Holmes equals evolution of the TBS branding equals over the years TBS has had several logos and undergone multiple name changes as a superstation it was named superstation WTBS starting in 1979 in 1987 the W from the wtbs callsign was dropped from the super stations on-air branding in order to emphasize the channels national programming prominence with the wtbs atlanta signal using the separate branding of super station 17 on september 28 1989 superstation TBS changed its name to TBS super station to reflect the strong national standing of the channel also debuting was a promotional campaign with the slogan spies featuring various stars of programs seen on TBS with graphical elements of fireworks and a large rotating glass pane which could display the TBS logo then change to or from a slogan will display a schedule of programs movie and special presentations meanwhile utilized introduction sequences with showed people in a small town flocking to a TBS branded theater for various movies with the interior having a couch in the front row of seats where various people would sit down the music played was variants of the ties promotional music in 1991 the word superstation was removed from the cable channels on-air branding and promotions rebranding it as simply TBS this continued until December 17 1996 when TBS celebrated its 20th anniversary as a national service with the channel reverting its name back to TBS superstation the superstation sub brand was once again dropped in early 2004 with the channel reverting to being branded as simply TBS months before it adopted a new logo that rendered the channel’s name in lowercase and incorporated a half-circle made to resemble a mouth open as if it were laughing to signify the channel’s new comedy programming the circle element often takes on a motif with half a baseball or basketball rendered within it for tennis sports programming planned rebranding project on May 14 2015 doing the Turner upfront president of Turner Kevin Riley will see a big shift within the next few years for TBS and TNT TBS will feature more original live action comedies original animated series more late-night talk shows and lots more of big and scripted ideas with attitude a rebranding of TBS is set to begin towards the end of 2015 High Definition TBS HD is a high-definition simulcast feed of TBS which broadcasts in the 1080i resolution format and was launched on September 1st 2007 to the launch of the national channels HD feed WTBS is digital signal a gyro which is viewable over-the-air in the Atlanta market a gyro had already transmitted in high-definition it was replaced by the superstation feeds HD simulcast instead of simulcasting what became peachtree TV much like sister channel TNT TBS airs a moderate amount of program content broadcast in 4:3 standard definition stretched to the 16:9 widescreen format through a nonlinear process similar to the panorama setting on many HD TVs that some viewers have nicknamed stretcho vision after it was first used by TNT though other HD simulcast feeds operated by cable channels have also adopted this practice 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 in addition to true HD content in 69 TBS HD also airs unstretched would converted standard definition content in its original aspect ratio but commercials are aired in either format without stretching for ads produced in 480i TBS launched HD feed for its specific timezone feed on June 18 2010 programming TBS currently airs a mix of original sitcoms and reruns of sitcoms that were originally broadcast on the major broadcast networks original programs currently seen on TBS include American Dad Conan Cougar Town deal with it Sullivan & Son and ground-floor the channels daytime schedule is heavily dominated by reruns of current and former Network comedies with these shows also airing in the evening and sporadically during the overnight hours such programs include Family Guy friends Seon Feld the king of queens married with children the Big Bang Theory new girl and 2 Broke Girls equals Turner time equals on June 29 1981 TBS began to use enough time scheduling format for its programming known as Turner Tarr while program offerings on other broadcast and basic cable channels generally began at the top and bottom of each hour TBS decided to begin airing programs five minutes later at oh five and thirty five minutes past the hour programs seen on TBS were listed under their own time entry and TV Guide during the period in which the magazine published log listings as a result of their scheduling thus enabling the program listings to catch potential viewers eyes more readily the use of Turner time also encouraged channel surfers who could not find anything interesting to watch at the top of the hour to still be able to watch a program on TBS without missing the first few minutes most importantly since shows ended five minutes later than normal from a strategic standpoint the off time scheduling usually encouraged viewers to continue watching TBS rather than turning to another channel to watch a program that would already be airing in progress TBS reduced its use of the Turner time scheduling in 1997 and switched entirely to conventional start times at the top and bottom of the hour by 2000 unconventional start times continued to be used for movies airing on the channel a euro who’s running terms may vary depending on the film’s length with commercials added to pad the timeslot this often causes major disruptions in the start times of programming in some circumstances conventional top and bottom start times would not be restored until early the next morning while this is not exactly related to the Turner time format it may strategically serve the same purposes due to the off time scheduling the Turner time format is similar to the scheduling applied by most premium channels and certain other movie oriented services other broadcast and cable channels have utilized similar off time scheduling formats equals news programming equals one type of programming that TBS does not produce presently as news nevertheless TBS a gyro during its existence as a superstation the gyro produced a 20-minute newscast called 17 update early in the morning from 1976 to 1979 hosted by Bill Tosh and Tina Selden the program was taped at the end of the workday and aired between movies around 300 or 4 a.

Eastern Time its format was similar to the Saturday Night Live segment Weekend Update and was to a certain extent a forerunner to The Daily Show the time slot in the satirical content of the program were a reaction to FCC rules in effect at the time that required stations to carry some news and information contained the Euro although TBS had to broadcast news the FCC could not dictate when it aired or demand that it have a serious tone 17 update early in the morning was canceled months before Ted Turner began his serious television news venture CNN CNN also produced an hour-long weeknight news program for TBS called the TBS Evening News that usually ran at 10:00 p.

Eastern Time during the early 1980s for many years W TBS also ran a half-hour simulcast of CNN’s sister channel headline news each morning at 6:00 a.

this was only carried in the Atlanta area and on cable providers in the market that perceived the local feed on September 11 2001 TBS carried CNN’s coverage of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon during sports blackouts in some areas TBS carries rolling news coverage from HLN in its place equals movies equals feature films have been a mainstay of TBS since its inception as a superstation in the present day most of the films seen on TBS are of the comedy genre however some drama and action films continue to air on the channel periodically movies on the channel generally aired during the overnight hours on a daily basis enduring much of the day on weekends this is in stark contrast to its existence as a superstation when movies also filled late morning early afternoon and primetime slots on weekdays TBS broadcasts movies from sister companies Warner Brothers pictures and New Line Cinema along with films produced by Walt Disney Studios motion pictures sony pictures Entertainment Lionsgate metro-goldwyn-mayer 20th Century Fox Universal Pictures and Paramount Pictures in the recent past TBS had frequently aired its primetime movies interspersed with other content and commentary these wraparound segments later moved to weekend afternoon film presentations before being dropped entirely by 2011 since 1997 TBS has broadcast the 1983 film a Christmas story in a 24 hour marathon from Christmas Eve to Christmas Day which also ran simultaneously on sister channel TNT until 2009 once each weekend TBS airs a movie in primetime of limited commercial interruption branded in promo advertisements under the title more movies less commercials equals sports programming equals baseball coverage of the Atlanta Braves major league baseball team was perhaps TBS’s signature program mainly due to its viewer popularity in Georgia and neighboring states Turner once famously tried to get Andy Messersmith to use his number 17 jersey to promote superstation WTBS in its early years the MLB organization immediately stopped Turner from proceeding with this plan due to league regulations barring team jerseys from incorporating advertising other than that of the jerseys manufacturer at the 2006 MLB all-star game it was announced that TBS would begin carrying a television package that includes all major league teams beginning with the 2007 season TBS began carrying all Division Series games and one of the two League Championship Series as well as the announcements of the all-star teams and any possible games to determine division winners and wild-card teams in 2008 TBS began airing MLB regular season Sunday games with the provision that no team may appear on the telecasts more than 13 times during the season during the 2007 transitional year TBS aired 70 regular season Braves games in 2008 the number of Braves telecasts was reduced to only 45 games with TBS’s former atlanta feed WPC atetv solely carrying the telecasts Turner syndicates the package to other television stations and cable channels for broadcast in the remainder of the Braves designated Market area the final Braves game to be broadcast on TBS aired on September 30th 2007 with the first divisional playoff game airing the following day on October 1st 2007 on October 18 2008 a technical problem at the channels Master Control facility in Atlanta prevented TBS from showing the first inning of Game six of the American League Championship Series between the Boston Red Sox and Tampa Bay Rays the channel aired a rerun episode of The Steve Harvey Show instead college basketball in 2011 TBS obtained the television rights to the NCAA Men’s Division one basketball championship with broadcast rights shared with CBS and fellow Turner properties TNT and tear you TV TBS and the other two turnaround networks presently broadcast games played in the second and third rounds of the tournament with TBS alternating coverage with CBS for the regional semi finals in 2014 and 2015 TBS and CBS split coverage of the regional finals with TBS gaining the two Saturday evening games and CBS retaining the two Sunday afternoon games also in 2014 and 2015 TBS covered the national semifinals in 2016 TBS will televise the Final Four and the national championship game beginning an alternating agreement with CBS through 2024 in even-numbered years TBS will have the final three games and in odd-numbered years CBS will televise the games college football college football games from the big 12 and pac-10 Athletic Conference is aired on TBS for several years beginning in 2000 through a sub licensing agreement with Fox Sports that agreement ended after the 2006 season National Basketball Association NBA basketball games aired on TBS from 1984 until the broadcast rights were moved entirely to TNT in 2002 some games from the Atlanta Hawks were shown on TBS until the telecasts on TNT and the TBS superstation feed became subject to blackout within 35 miles of the home teams arena this restriction was dropped when TNT gained the right to be the exclusive podcaster of any game it chose to carry professional wrestling professional wrestling aired from 1971 to 2001 under several different wrestling promotions including Jim Barnett own Georgia Championship Wrestling Vince McMahon’s World Wrestling Federation Bill Watts his mid-south wrestling and Jim Crockett juniors Jim Crockett Promotions which eventually became Turner owned World Championship Wrestling through the early 1990s the wrestling programs and Braves baseball were among basic cable’s highest-rated offerings due to heavy viewership in the southeast NASCAR select NASCAR Winston Cup Busch Series and Craftsman Truck Series races aired on TBS until the 2000 season for several years in the late 1990s the only Cup races aired on TBS were the two regular Cup Series races from Lowe’s Motor Speedway and the July race at Pocono Raceway TBS was also the home of the postseason exhibition races held at Suzuka circuit and the Twin Ring Motegi tracks in Japan from 1996 to 1998 NASCAR events moved to TNT in 2001 as part of a deal between the organization NBC and TNT although the initial plans were for TBS to carry the races instead Turner Broadcasting decided that the NASCAR telecasts would better fit TNT’s we know drama image campaign equals a sports equals on September 23rd 2015 Turner Broadcasting announced that it is planning and Counter Strike global Offensive League beginning in 2016 there is also the possibility of other video games being added in future seasons references external links www TBS comm TBS official website WWN a comm Turner Broadcasting System official website clips of 17 update early in the morning maintained by former anchor Bill Tosh http:www.

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TBS (TV channel)

Tanna broadcasting station is an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by the Turner Broadcasting System division of Time Warner which shares its name with the channel TBS carries a variety of programming with a focus on comedy along with some sports events including Major League Baseball and portions of the NCAA Men’s Division one basketball championship as of February 2015 TBS is available to approximately ninety six point five million pay television households in the United States availability TBS is available on cable and satellite providers throughout the entire United States until October 1st 2007 the national TBS feed could not be viewed within its home market in the Atlanta metropolitan area due to be over-the-air presence of WTBS which carried a nearly identical schedule with the only different programming being children programs that meet the Federal Communications Commission’s educational programming guidelines and public affairs programming the operations of WTBS and TBS super station were separated in october 2007 with the over-the-air atlanta station becoming WP CH TV a general entertainment independent station focused solely on the Atlanta area the national TBS feed became available to cable and satellite subscribers within channel 17s viewing area as a result TBS is programming was previously made available to cable and satellite subscribers in Canada through the WTBS Atlanta feed however the Canadian radio-television and Telecommunications Commission had only approved the Atlanta stations broadcast signal to be carried on cable and satellite providers domestically across Canada not the TBS cable feed as a result following the separation of TBS and wtbs WP CH in 2007 Canadian cable and satellite subscribers received access to WP CH Atlanta instead of TBS most of TBS is flagship programming such as Major League Baseball and original theories are not broadcast on WPC HTV but are instead carried on other Canadian speciality channels history equals early years equals TBS originated as a broadcast television station in Atlanta Georgia that operated on UHF channel 17 and maintained a general entertainment format as an independent station the station first signed on the air on September 1st 1967 as WJ RJ TV Ted Turner required the station from its founder Atlanta entrepreneur Jack Rice jr.

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TBS (TV channel)

Tanna broadcasting station is an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by the Turner Broadcasting System division of Time Warner which shares its name with the channel TBS carries a variety of programming with a focus on comedy along with some sports events including Major League Baseball and portions of the NCAA Men’s Division one basketball championship as of February 2015 TBS is available to approximately ninety six point five million pay television households in the United States availability TBS is available on cable and satellite providers throughout the entire United States until October 1st 2007 the national TBS feed could not be viewed within its home market in the Atlanta metropolitan area due to be over-the-air presence of WTBS which carried a nearly identical schedule with the only different programming being children programs that meet the Federal Communications Commission’s educational programming guidelines and public affairs programming the operations of WTBS and TBS super station were separated in october 2007 with the over-the-air atlanta station becoming WP CH TV a general entertainment independent station focused solely on the Atlanta area the national TBS feed became available to cable and satellite subscribers within channel 17s viewing area as a result TBS is programming was previously made available to cable and satellite subscribers in Canada through the WTBS Atlanta feed however the Canadian radio-television and Telecommunications Commission had only approved the Atlanta stations broadcast signal to be carried on cable and satellite providers domestically across Canada not the TBS cable feed as a result following the separation of TBS and wtbs WP CH in 2007 Canadian cable and satellite subscribers received access to WP CH Atlanta instead of TBS most of TBS is flagship programming such as Major League Baseball and original theories are not broadcast on WPC HTV but are instead carried on other Canadian speciality channels history equals early years equals TBS originated as a broadcast television station in Atlanta Georgia that operated on UHF channel 17 and maintained a general entertainment format as an independent station the station first signed on the air on September 1st 1967 as WJ RJ TV Ted Turner required the station from its founder Atlanta entrepreneur Jack Rice jr.

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TBS (TV channel)

Tanna broadcasting station is an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by the Turner Broadcasting System division of Time Warner which shares its name with the channel TBS carries a variety of programming with a focus on comedy along with some sports events including Major League Baseball and portions of the NCAA Men's Division one basketball championship as of February 2015 TBS is available to approximately ninety six point five million pay television households in the United States availability TBS is available on cable and satellite providers throughout the entire United States until October 1st 2007 the national TBS feed could not be viewed within its home market in the Atlanta metropolitan area due to be over-the-air presence of WTBS which carried a nearly identical schedule with the only different programming being children programs that meet the Federal Communications Commission's educational programming guidelines and public affairs programming the operations of WTBS and TBS super station were separated in october 2007 with the over-the-air atlanta station becoming WP CH TV a general entertainment independent station focused solely on the Atlanta area the national TBS feed became available to cable and satellite subscribers within channel 17s viewing area as a result TBS is programming was previously made available to cable and satellite subscribers in Canada through the WTBS Atlanta feed however the Canadian radio-television and Telecommunications Commission had only approved the Atlanta stations broadcast signal to be carried on cable and satellite providers domestically across Canada not the TBS cable feed as a result following the separation of TBS and wtbs WP CH in 2007 Canadian cable and satellite subscribers received access to WP CH Atlanta instead of TBS most of TBS is flagship programming such as Major League Baseball and original theories are not broadcast on WPC HTV but are instead carried on other Canadian speciality channels history equals early years equals TBS originated as a broadcast television station in Atlanta Georgia that operated on UHF channel 17 and maintained a general entertainment format as an independent station the station first signed on the air on September 1st 1967 as WJ RJ TV Ted Turner required the station from its founder Atlanta entrepreneur Jack Rice jr.

in January 1970 and changed the call letters to wtcg which officially stood for return a communications group although the station used what this channel grow as a promotional slogan beginning in the early 1970s wtcg was microwave linked to many areas of the southeastern United States through cable providers who picked up the UHF signal affair and microwaved the signal back to there he attends early programming included movies from the 1930s and 1940s sitcoms and Japanese animated series the station also carried sports such as Atlanta Braves baseball Atlanta Hawks basketball Atlanta Flames hockey and Georgia Championship Wrestling wtcg also bid very low on programming leaving the network affiliated stations in the market a euro WSB TV Waga TV and wXII a TV a euro to require the stronger shows but because of programming commitments that the affiliate set of their networks those stations kept the shows for only a few years at a time and rarely renewed them after which wtcg bought the syndicated shows secondhand at much lower prices by the mid-1970s The Andy Griffith Show The Flintstones Leave It to Beaver The Little Rascals my three sons Star Trek The Three Stooges and many others were added to the station's schedule in 1976 most US cities below the top 20 media markets lacked independent state running general entertainment programs and generally had only stations affiliated with ABC NBC and CBS along with a non-commercial educational station cable providers in these areas carried stations from neighboring markets and if possible an independent station equals wtcg gets beamed via satellite equals ted turner decided to distribute his station through satellite enabling wtcg to be received nationwide especially in markets lacking even a distant independent station at 1:00 p.

Eastern Time on December 17th 1976 WTC jeez signal was beamed via the SATCOM one satellite to cable systems in Grand Island Nebraska Newport News Virginia Troy Alabama and Newton Kansas the first broadcast was the 1948 Donna Andrews cesar romero film deep waters which had been in progress for 30 minutes on channel 17 in atlanta instantly wtcg went from being a small independent television station that was available only in georgia and neighboring states to a major coast-to-coast operation wtcg became a so-called super station and set a precedent for today's basic cable television by 1978 wtcg was carried on cable providers in all 50 states TBS became only the second u.

cable channel to transmit its programming via satellite HBO began to distribute its signal nationally through satellite transmission on September 30th 1975 but cable subscribers were required to pay extra to receive that service Ted Turner's innovation signaled the start of the basic cable revolution equals initial change to wtbs equals wtcg changed its callsign to wtbs on august 27 1979 the new call letters were acquired via a monetary donation to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology student radio station for the construction of a new transmitter in the late is WTBS continued to acquire second-hand programming such as made-for-tv Popeye cartoons The Brady Bunch The Munsters and other programs the station acquired reruns of all in the family in Sanford & Son in 1979 as well as Little House on the Prairie and chips in 1981 other older shows would eventually be removed from the schedule wtcg also mixed more movie releases from the 1950s through the 1970s into its schedule the channel 17 transmitter was originally located at 1018 West Peachtree Street Northwest with the antenna located on a large self-supporting tower the building at this site was once home to the studios of CBS affiliate WAG ATV and later channel 17 during its first three years as WJ RJ TV soon after being purchased by Turner the station moved to new studio facilities a few blocks west of the former site of the progressive Club initially wtcg was identified as channel 17 both locally in Atlanta and on cable providers outside of that area the same shows that ran on the local Atlanta broadcast were also aired nationally after the station adopted WTBS as its call sign Turner branded the station as superstation WTBS with reference within the logo to the channel 17 frequency in Atlanta many cable providers throughout the country even carried it on channel 17 in 1981 Turner decided to have all of the shows carried by wtbs continued to air both locally and nationally but separated the feeds the station would be branded in Atlanta a super station 17 and would continue to air local commercials as well nationally though the station would not mention the channel number 17 and would use logos identifying it only as superstation WTBS separate national advertising or / enquiry ads would air on the superstation feed metro-goldwyn-mayer library during the 1980s WTBS focused heavily on move running two films during the day and a movie exclusive scheduled during the nighttime hours after 8 p.

with the exception of sports events at other times WTBS continued to run mostly classic sitcoms and vintage cartoons in 1986 when Ted Turner purchased metro-goldwyn-mayer WTBS gained the rights to the entire MGM film library it gave WTBS the rights to air many theatrical cartoon shorts such as Tom and Jerry as well as shows like Gilligan's Island and chips along with Tom and Jerry WTBS began to run the little rascals Looney Tunes Merrie Melodies cartoons released prior to august 1948 theatrical popeye cartoon shorts and Three Stooges shorts under the banner the TBS Tom and Jerry funhouse running for either one hour or 90 minutes during the morning hours and for an hour in the afternoon from 1986 until the mid-1990s in the late 1980s WTBS decreased the amount of movies broadcast during the day slightly and began to add sitcoms from the 1970s to the evening lineup Little House on the Prairie aired during the late mornings continuously from 1986 to 2003 other programming music videos also aired during its late night lineup on weekends from 1983 to 1992 as part of the program night tracks with up to 14 hours of programming beginning in 1991 a handful of shows that were shared nationally were preempted in the Atlanta market in order to broadcast FCC mandated news public affairs and children's programming a euro continuing until the split of the TBS national feed from the Atlanta station TBS was also the television home of World Championship Wrestling it carried the weekly show WCW Saturday night from 1992 to 2000 and was the flagship program for the WCW before Monday nitro launched in 1995 on sister channel TNT another WCW show WCW Thunder debuted in 1998 on Thursday night the program was moved to wednesdays in 2000 before it was canceled in 2001 when TBS executive Jamie Kellner determined that wrestling did not fit the demographics of either TBS or TNT and would not be favorable enough to get the right advertisers to buy airtime even though thunder was the highest-rated show on the channel at the time throughout the 1980s in the early 1990s TBS also carried the Elektra teletext service on its vertical blanking interval Elektra was discontinued in 1993 due to a lack of funding in the early 1990s shows such as The Flintstones The Brady Bunch Scooby Doo The Jetsons Looney Tunes Merrie Melodies shorts Gilligan's Island and others remained on the schedule as other older shows such as The Three Stooges and Little Rascals shorts and Leave It to Beaver were dropped from the channel to make way for more sitcoms from the 1980s such as Three's Company who's the boss growing pains The Cosby Show family ties and Saved by the Bell original animated programs such as Captain Planet and the Planeteers two stupid dogs and SWAT cats the radical squadron were also added in 1996 the Turner Broadcasting System was acquired by Time Warner among the programming changes instituted after the merger was the addition of Looney Tunes Merrie Melodies cartoons that were released after August 1st 1948 they began airing in January 1997 equals– shift towards comedy equals in 1997 TBS began to collect subscriber fees directly from cable operators effectively causing the national feed to begin operating under the conventions of a basic cable channel although it was still technically designated as a super station in exchange TBS began to lease advertising slots to cable providers to allow them to locally insert commercials in the provider service area as a result the channel began to broadcast fewer Atlanta Braves regular season games to a national audience in 1998 WTBS dropped all of its remaining card with those shows migrating to Cartoon Network and becoming the core of a new cable channel devoted to classic cartoons that launched several months later called boomerang wtbs continued to run a mix of movies sitcoms and drama series by 2001 several sitcoms from the 1980s and 1990s such as full house Family Matters The Cosby Show friends Seon Feld and Home Improvement became part of the schedule many of them airing as part of the afternoon non-stop comedy block by 2002 in 2003 WTBS dropped Little House on the Prairie and other dramatic programming as a part of its new focus on comedic programs such as sitcom reruns original reality television series and theatrically released comedy films as part of this focus TBS adopted the slogan very funny and introduced a new logo in June 2004 the refocusing is intended as a direct contrast to sister channel TNT which had focused on older movies initially but moved toward and now focuses on drama series and films equals split from the Atlanta signal equals in late June 2007 the Turner Broadcasting System announced that WTBS would change its callsign to WP CH TV and would be rebranded as peachtree TV the rebranded channel 17 would offer sitcoms and movies geared specifically toward the station's Atlanta audience and would also broadcast 45 Atlanta Braves baseball games starting with the 2008 season the change occurred on October 1st with the national feet becoming a separate cable channel that retained the TBS name in addition the channel 17 changeover allowed cable and satellite subscribers in the Atlanta market a gyro which previously received wtbs is local Atlanta signal a gyro to receive the national TBS feed for the first time since the early 1980s following the change Canadian cable providers were legally required to continue carrying the local peachtree TV signal instead of switching to the national TBS fee beginning with the 2008 season TBS began airing Major League Baseball postseason games with regular season baseball coverage expanding to include games from other MLB teams in November 2009 TBS debuted its first late-night talk show Lopez Tonight hosted by comedian George Lopez one year later the channel expanded its late-night offerings with the November 8 2010 debut of Conan after TBS struck a deal to give Conan O'Brien a show on the channel on the heels of his controversial exit as host of NBC's The Tonight Show Lopez Tonight ended its run on August 12 2011 after it was cancelled due to a steep decline in ratings in 2011 TBS also obtained the partial cable television rights to the NCAA Men's Division one basketball championship a euro which it shares with Turner own sister channels TNT and tear u TV along with the tournament's longtime broadcaster CBS during the first quarter of 2012 TBS is fuchsia in the 18 to 49 adult demographic beat all other advertiser supported cable channels in spite of the fact that TBS did not air any original programs in primetime during that period nor had it aired a show among the 50 highest rated cable programs the channels third late-night talk show the Pete Holmes show debuted on October 28 2013 hosted by comedian Pete Holmes equals evolution of the TBS branding equals over the years TBS has had several logos and undergone multiple name changes as a superstation it was named superstation WTBS starting in 1979 in 1987 the W from the wtbs callsign was dropped from the super stations on-air branding in order to emphasize the channels national programming prominence with the wtbs atlanta signal using the separate branding of super station 17 on september 28 1989 superstation TBS changed its name to TBS super station to reflect the strong national standing of the channel also debuting was a promotional campaign with the slogan spies featuring various stars of programs seen on TBS with graphical elements of fireworks and a large rotating glass pane which could display the TBS logo then change to or from a slogan will display a schedule of programs movie and special presentations meanwhile utilized introduction sequences with showed people in a small town flocking to a TBS branded theater for various movies with the interior having a couch in the front row of seats where various people would sit down the music played was variants of the ties promotional music in 1991 the word superstation was removed from the cable channels on-air branding and promotions rebranding it as simply TBS this continued until December 17 1996 when TBS celebrated its 20th anniversary as a national service with the channel reverting its name back to TBS superstation the superstation sub brand was once again dropped in early 2004 with the channel reverting to being branded as simply TBS months before it adopted a new logo that rendered the channel's name in lowercase and incorporated a half-circle made to resemble a mouth open as if it were laughing to signify the channel's new comedy programming the circle element often takes on a motif with half a baseball or basketball rendered within it for tennis sports programming planned rebranding project on May 14 2015 doing the Turner upfront president of Turner Kevin Riley will see a big shift within the next few years for TBS and TNT TBS will feature more original live action comedies original animated series more late-night talk shows and lots more of big and scripted ideas with attitude a rebranding of TBS is set to begin towards the end of 2015 High Definition TBS HD is a high-definition simulcast feed of TBS which broadcasts in the 1080i resolution format and was launched on September 1st 2007 to the launch of the national channels HD feed WTBS is digital signal a gyro which is viewable over-the-air in the Atlanta market a gyro had already transmitted in high-definition it was replaced by the superstation feeds HD simulcast instead of simulcasting what became peachtree TV much like sister channel TNT TBS airs a moderate amount of program content broadcast in 4:3 standard definition stretched to the 16:9 widescreen format through a nonlinear process similar to the panorama setting on many HD TVs that some viewers have nicknamed stretcho vision after it was first used by TNT though other HD simulcast feeds operated by cable channels have also adopted this practice 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 in addition to true HD content in 69 TBS HD also airs unstretched would converted standard definition content in its original aspect ratio but commercials are aired in either format without stretching for ads produced in 480i TBS launched HD feed for its specific timezone feed on June 18 2010 programming TBS currently airs a mix of original sitcoms and reruns of sitcoms that were originally broadcast on the major broadcast networks original programs currently seen on TBS include American Dad Conan Cougar Town deal with it Sullivan & Son and ground-floor the channels daytime schedule is heavily dominated by reruns of current and former Network comedies with these shows also airing in the evening and sporadically during the overnight hours such programs include Family Guy friends Seon Feld the king of queens married with children the Big Bang Theory new girl and 2 Broke Girls equals Turner time equals on June 29 1981 TBS began to use enough time scheduling format for its programming known as Turner Tarr while program offerings on other broadcast and basic cable channels generally began at the top and bottom of each hour TBS decided to begin airing programs five minutes later at oh five and thirty five minutes past the hour programs seen on TBS were listed under their own time entry and TV Guide during the period in which the magazine published log listings as a result of their scheduling thus enabling the program listings to catch potential viewers eyes more readily the use of Turner time also encouraged channel surfers who could not find anything interesting to watch at the top of the hour to still be able to watch a program on TBS without missing the first few minutes most importantly since shows ended five minutes later than normal from a strategic standpoint the off time scheduling usually encouraged viewers to continue watching TBS rather than turning to another channel to watch a program that would already be airing in progress TBS reduced its use of the Turner time scheduling in 1997 and switched entirely to conventional start times at the top and bottom of the hour by 2000 unconventional start times continued to be used for movies airing on the channel a euro who's running terms may vary depending on the film's length with commercials added to pad the timeslot this often causes major disruptions in the start times of programming in some circumstances conventional top and bottom start times would not be restored until early the next morning while this is not exactly related to the Turner time format it may strategically serve the same purposes due to the off time scheduling the Turner time format is similar to the scheduling applied by most premium channels and certain other movie oriented services other broadcast and cable channels have utilized similar off time scheduling formats equals news programming equals one type of programming that TBS does not produce presently as news nevertheless TBS a gyro during its existence as a superstation the gyro produced a 20-minute newscast called 17 update early in the morning from 1976 to 1979 hosted by Bill Tosh and Tina Selden the program was taped at the end of the workday and aired between movies around 300 or 4 a.

Eastern Time during the early 1980s for many years W TBS also ran a half-hour simulcast of CNN's sister channel headline news each morning at 6:00 a.

this was only carried in the Atlanta area and on cable providers in the market that perceived the local feed on September 11 2001 TBS carried CNN's coverage of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon during sports blackouts in some areas TBS carries rolling news coverage from HLN in its place equals movies equals feature films have been a mainstay of TBS since its inception as a superstation in the present day most of the films seen on TBS are of the comedy genre however some drama and action films continue to air on the channel periodically movies on the channel generally aired during the overnight hours on a daily basis enduring much of the day on weekends this is in stark contrast to its existence as a superstation when movies also filled late morning early afternoon and primetime slots on weekdays TBS broadcasts movies from sister companies Warner Brothers pictures and New Line Cinema along with films produced by Walt Disney Studios motion pictures sony pictures Entertainment Lionsgate metro-goldwyn-mayer 20th Century Fox Universal Pictures and Paramount Pictures in the recent past TBS had frequently aired its primetime movies interspersed with other content and commentary these wraparound segments later moved to weekend afternoon film presentations before being dropped entirely by 2011 since 1997 TBS has broadcast the 1983 film a Christmas story in a 24 hour marathon from Christmas Eve to Christmas Day which also ran simultaneously on sister channel TNT until 2009 once each weekend TBS airs a movie in primetime of limited commercial interruption branded in promo advertisements under the title more movies less commercials equals sports programming equals baseball coverage of the Atlanta Braves major league baseball team was perhaps TBS's signature program mainly due to its viewer popularity in Georgia and neighboring states Turner once famously tried to get Andy Messersmith to use his number 17 jersey to promote superstation WTBS in its early years the MLB organization immediately stopped Turner from proceeding with this plan due to league regulations barring team jerseys from incorporating advertising other than that of the jerseys manufacturer at the 2006 MLB all-star game it was announced that TBS would begin carrying a television package that includes all major league teams beginning with the 2007 season TBS began carrying all Division Series games and one of the two League Championship Series as well as the announcements of the all-star teams and any possible games to determine division winners and wild-card teams in 2008 TBS began airing MLB regular season Sunday games with the provision that no team may appear on the telecasts more than 13 times during the season during the 2007 transitional year TBS aired 70 regular season Braves games in 2008 the number of Braves telecasts was reduced to only 45 games with TBS's former atlanta feed WPC atetv solely carrying the telecasts Turner syndicates the package to other television stations and cable channels for broadcast in the remainder of the Braves designated Market area the final Braves game to be broadcast on TBS aired on September 30th 2007 with the first divisional playoff game airing the following day on October 1st 2007 on October 18 2008 a technical problem at the channels Master Control facility in Atlanta prevented TBS from showing the first inning of Game six of the American League Championship Series between the Boston Red Sox and Tampa Bay Rays the channel aired a rerun episode of The Steve Harvey Show instead college basketball in 2011 TBS obtained the television rights to the NCAA Men's Division one basketball championship with broadcast rights shared with CBS and fellow Turner properties TNT and tear you TV TBS and the other two turnaround networks presently broadcast games played in the second and third rounds of the tournament with TBS alternating coverage with CBS for the regional semi finals in 2014 and 2015 TBS and CBS split coverage of the regional finals with TBS gaining the two Saturday evening games and CBS retaining the two Sunday afternoon games also in 2014 and 2015 TBS covered the national semifinals in 2016 TBS will televise the Final Four and the national championship game beginning an alternating agreement with CBS through 2024 in even-numbered years TBS will have the final three games and in odd-numbered years CBS will televise the games college football college football games from the big 12 and pac-10 Athletic Conference is aired on TBS for several years beginning in 2000 through a sub licensing agreement with Fox Sports that agreement ended after the 2006 season National Basketball Association NBA basketball games aired on TBS from 1984 until the broadcast rights were moved entirely to TNT in 2002 some games from the Atlanta Hawks were shown on TBS until the telecasts on TNT and the TBS superstation feed became subject to blackout within 35 miles of the home teams arena this restriction was dropped when TNT gained the right to be the exclusive podcaster of any game it chose to carry professional wrestling professional wrestling aired from 1971 to 2001 under several different wrestling promotions including Jim Barnett own Georgia Championship Wrestling Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Federation Bill Watts his mid-south wrestling and Jim Crockett juniors Jim Crockett Promotions which eventually became Turner owned World Championship Wrestling through the early 1990s the wrestling programs and Braves baseball were among basic cable's highest-rated offerings due to heavy viewership in the southeast NASCAR select NASCAR Winston Cup Busch Series and Craftsman Truck Series races aired on TBS until the 2000 season for several years in the late 1990s the only Cup races aired on TBS were the two regular Cup Series races from Lowe's Motor Speedway and the July race at Pocono Raceway TBS was also the home of the postseason exhibition races held at Suzuka circuit and the Twin Ring Motegi tracks in Japan from 1996 to 1998 NASCAR events moved to TNT in 2001 as part of a deal between the organization NBC and TNT although the initial plans were for TBS to carry the races instead Turner Broadcasting decided that the NASCAR telecasts would better fit TNT's we know drama image campaign equals a sports equals on September 23rd 2015 Turner Broadcasting announced that it is planning and Counter Strike global Offensive League beginning in 2016 there is also the possibility of other video games being added in future seasons references external links www TBS comm TBS official website WWN a comm Turner Broadcasting System official website clips of 17 update early in the morning maintained by former anchor Bill Tosh http:www.

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