Content: TV, Radio and Filmed
Cable Systems, #2 in
ISP (AOL)
Magazines
Books
Games
1 radio station
Businesses sold:
Time-Warner Books (not specific to any other T-W properties)
Recorded Music
Sports teams-Atlanta Braves baseball and Hawks hockey team
Current Holdings are according to wikipedia, http://www.freepress.net/ownership/chart.php, and other sources
BROADCAST TV:
The CW Television Network
See also: The CW Television Network
On January 24, 2006, CBS Corporation and Time Warner announced that they were to create a new broadcast network, The CW Television Network. The network officially debuted on September 18, 2006. The network is the result of a merger of The WB Television Network (a Time Warner holding) and UPN (a CBS Corporation holding). CBS Corporation and Time Warner each own 50% of the network. Tribune Broadcasting (previously owned a 25% stake in The WB) and CBS Corporation contributed its stations as new network affiliates.
TV/VIDEO PRODUCTION:
QDE Entertainment ( 50%, with Quincy Jones and David Salzman)
HBO Independent Productions
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Radio stations
KRBE-FM, Houston, Texas (50%)
Radio Services
Headline News en Espanol Radio
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CABLE TV:
CABLE CHANNELS:
Home Box Office, Inc. (HBO, HBO Sports, HBO Pay-Per-View, HBO Video, HBO Independent Productions, HBO Multiplexes, HBO on Demand, as well as HBO channels around the world), HBO HD,
Cinemax Multiplexes, Cinemax on Demand, Cinemax HD,
Court TV (was 50% Time Warner, 50% Liberty Media, TW bought rest in 2006),
WTBS,
Boomerang, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim
Turner Classic Movies, TCM Europe, TCM Asia Pacific, TCM Classic
Turner Network Television, TNT, TNT HD, TNT
CNN / US, CNN Airport Network, CNN International, CNN Headline News, CNN.com, CNNStudentNews.com, CNN Headline News in Asia Pacific, CNN Headline News in Latin America, CNN en Español, CNN en Español Radio, CNNj, CNN+, CNN Turk, CNN-IBN, CNNRadio, CNNfn, CNN International, CNN Mobile, CNN Newsource, CNN Pipeline, CNNMoney.com, CNN to go,
CETV (
BOING (family channel in
Joint Ventures:
Accent Health
NBC / Turner
NASCAR Races
Zee / Turner
Private Networks:
Dealer Entertainment Network
The Checking Network
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Time Warner Cable
Time Warner Cable Inc.: Digital Phone (Internet protocol-based voice service), RoadRunner, and RoadRunner-Business Class.
CABLE TV PARTNERSHIPS:
As a result of the aquisition of Adelphia Communications, Time Warner will shuffle certain cable operations with Comcast to give each a greater concentration of customers in the former Adelphia service areas.
Time Warner’s areas of enhanced concentration include: Southern California (
Digital Phone
Local news channels:
Metro Sports, Kansas City, Missouri and Kansas City, Kansas
Capital News 9, Albany, New York
News 10 Now, Syracuse, New York
News 14 Carolina -
Urban Cableworks of Philadelphia (joint venture with Urban Cableworks);
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INTERNET and GAMES:
America Online: Instant Messenger, Music Now, CompuServe, ICQ, inStore, KOL, McAfee VirusScan Online (bundled with AOL services), MapQuest, Moviefone, Netscape, RED, Singingfish, Advertising.com, AOL CityGuide, AOL PassCode, MusicNet@AOL, Tegic Communications, Inc., Truveo, Weblogs, Wildseed, Xdrive,
AOL High Speed (a partnership with BellSouth, Time Warner Cable, Verizon, and other DSL providers to offer broadband internet access.)
-12/2005 Google paid $1 billion for a 5% stake in AOL.
AOL also bought iTunes competitor MusicNow more recently.
Internet: Allpolitics.com, CartoonNetwork.com, TheWB.com, DCComics.com, 52thecomic.com, Time.com
Websites/Broadband Services:
PLAY ON! Powered by ACC Select
TNT Overtime
AdTech, AG
Games.com
Kid's AOL (KOL)
LightningCast
Third Screen Media
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
Eidos (10.3%)
Monolith Productions video games
Warner Bros. Online
Warner Bros. Games
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FILM:
Production:
-a joint venture with Village Roadshow Pictures,
-a joint venture with Alcon Entertainment,
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-Subsidiary New Line owns: New Line Cinema and Fine Line Features.
-Picturehouse is a joint venture between HBO and New Line.
-Warner Bros. International Cinemas
-Warner Bros. Studios
WB Music
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PUBLISHING:
Time Inc.
The Time Inc. division publishes approximately 150 titles worldwide. It is the leading magazine publisher in the
Comics: DC Comics, E.C. Publications, Inc. (publisher of MAD magazine)
BOOKS:
Time Warner Book Group was sold in 2006 (with publishing companies The Mysterious Press, Time Warner Book Group UK, Warner Faith, Warner Vision, Warner Business Books, Aspect, and Little, Brown and Company (including Little, Brown Adult Trade, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, Back Bay, and Bulfinch Press);
March 31, 2006 Time Warner sold the Time Warner Book Group, including Little, Brown & Co. and Orbit to French publisher Hachette Livre, of the Lagardere group for $537 million. Hachette publishes Elle, Premiere and Car and Driver magazines
BOOK PUBLISHERS STILL OWNED BY TIME WARNER:
Oxmoor House, Inc., Leisure Arts, Inc., Sunset Books, Book-of-the-Month Club, Inc., Southern Progress Corporation, Parenting Group, Martha Stewart Books, Southern Living Books, Sports Illustrated Books
MAGAZINES:
Time 4Media was sold in 2007 (publishes 17 magazines worldwide),
-1/2007- the Bonnier Magazine Group agreed to acquire 18 magazines that Time Inc. was divesting for around $220 million. The magazines in the package included Field & Stream, Outdoor Life, Ski, Yachting, Popular Science and TransWorld Snowboarding, as well as 11 other titles that were art of Time Inc.'s Time4Media Group. Also included were Parenting, and Baby Talk, which were part of the Parenting Group.[12]
Over 150 Magazines: 25 Beautiful Gardens, 25 Beautiful Homes, 25 Beautiful Kitchens, 4x4, Aeroplane, All You, Amateur Gardening, Amateur Photographer, Ambientes, Angler’s Mail, Audi Magazine, Baby Talk, Balance, Bird Keeper, BMX Business News, Bride to Be, Business 2.0, Cage & Aviary Birds, Caravan, Center Street, Chat, Chilango, Classic Boat, Coastal Living, Cooking Light, Cottage Living, Country Homes & Interiors, Country Life, Cycle Sport, Cycling Weekly, Decanter, Ele (joint venture), English Woman’s Weekly, Entertainment Weekly, Essence (joint venture), Essentials, EXP, Expansion, European Boat Builder, Eventing, Family Circle (U.K.), Field & Stream, Fortune, Fortune Asia, Fortune Europe, FSB: Fortune Small Business, Golf Magazine, Golf Monthly, Guitar, Hair, Health, Hi-Fi News, Homes & Gardens, Horse, Horse & Hound, Ideal Home, In Style, In Style Australia, In Style U.K., International Boat Industry, IPC, Land Rover World, Leisure Arts, Life, Life and Style, Livingetc, Loaded, Manufactura, Marie Claire (joint venture), MBR-Mountain Bike Rider, MiniWorld, Mizz, Model Collector, Money, Motor Boat & Yachting, Motor Boats Monthly, Motor Caravan, NME, Now, Nuts, Obras, Outdoor Life, Oxmoor House, Parenting, Park Home & Holiday Caravan, People, People en Espanol, Pick Me Up, Popular Science, Practical Boat Owner, Practical Parenting, Prediction, Progressive Farmer, Quad Off-Road Magazine, Quien, Quo (joint venture), Racecar Engineering, Real Simple, Ride BMX, Rugby World, Salt Water Sportsman, Ships Monthly, Shoot Monthly, Shooting Times, Ski, Skiing, Soaplife, Southern Accents, Southern Living, Sporting Gun, Sports Illustrated, Sports Illustrated for Kids, Stamp Magazine, Sunset, Superbike, Synapse, Teen People, The Field, The Golf, The Railway Magazine, The Shooting Gazette, This Old House, This Old House Ventures, Time, Time Asia, Time Atlantic, Time Canada, Time for Kids, Time Pacific, TrandWorld Business, TransWorld Motocross, TransWorld Skateboarding, TransWorld Snowboarding, TransWorld Surf, TV & Satellite Week, TV Easy, TVTimes, Uncut, VolksWorld, Vuelo, Wallpaper, Wallpaper Navigator Webuser, Wedding, What Camera, What Digital Camera, What’s on TV, Who, Woman, Woman & Golf, Woman & Home, Woman’s Own, Woman’s Weekly, World Soccer, Yachting, Yachts, Yachting Monthly, and Yachting World.
Joint Ventures: Avantages
Grupo Editorial Expansion (publishes 15 magazines in
MORE MAGAZINES:
Better Digital Photography
Chat Passion Series
Farm
First Moments
For the Love of Cross Stitch
For the Love of Quilting
Freeze
In Style
Media Networks, Inc.
Mizz Specials
Now Style Series
Skiing Trade News
Targeted Media, Inc.
The Guitar Magazine
Time Distribution Services
Time Inc. Custom Publishing
Time Inc. Home Entertainment
Wallpaper Navigator
Woman's Weekly Fiction Special
Uncut Presents Series
Marketing businesses: Synapse Group Inc., Southern Progress Corporation (publisher of Southern Living At Home magazine), and Targeted Media, Inc.
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Other: Time Warner Telecom Inc. (aggregate interest of 44%)
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FORMER HOLDINGS OF THE COMPANIES THAT BECAME TIME-WARNER:
Since the AOL merger, a number of transactions have taken place:
The professional wrestling company WCW was sold to competitor WWE for $7 million.
AOL/Netscape's longrunning litigation against Microsoft was settled out of court.
Time Warner announced that it was shutting down its CNNfn financial information channel and disposing of its share in Google (2004).
Time-Life and Time-Life Records sold 1/2004
Warner Music Group sold 3/2004
Comedy Central ½ stake sold 4/2003
Time Warner Book Group sold 3/2006
Lorimar Productions folded into Warner in 1993
Lorimar-Telepictures (splits into Lorimar and Telepictures)
Turner South channel (2/2006 sold to Fox),
50% of Warner Amex Satellite Entertainment co., or 40.5% of Showtime-the Movie Channel, and/or 33% of MTV, VH-1 and Nickelodeon--Sold to Viacom in 1987
Panavision cameras—owned by Warner between 1960 and early 1980s
Atari video games owned by Warner 1976-1984
Warner Owns 42.5% of United Television, which owns 6 TV stations
Warner’s bought 37% of Hasbro in 1983
Warners owned Malibu Grand Prix mini car race tracks which it bought for $4 million in late 1970’s, now owned by Palace Entertainment, bought in 2002
- Popular Library bought from CBS in 1982, imprint disappeared in early 1980s
Sports Teams:
-Atlanta Braves baseball team—100%; Atlanta Braves: in 2/2007 purchased from Time Warner in a complex deal, in which $1 billion cash, a group of craft magazines & the Braves (valued at approximately $450 million) were exchanged for 60 million Time Warner stock shares.
Atlanta Hawks are sold mid-2003
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Lorimar Telepictures (BOUGHT BY Warner’s in 1989) once owned
TV STATIONS:
KMID-Midland/Odessa Texas Midland - Odessa KMID 2 (VHF) ABC network affiliate owned and
operated by Nexstar Broadcasting Group
KCPM-Chico/Redding Chico - Redding KNVN 24 (UHF) NBC network affiliate owned by Evans Broadcasting and operated by Catamount Broadcasting
2 stations in Puerto Rico San Juan - Caguas -Ponce - Mayagüez WLII /WSUR-TV 11 (VHF) /
9 (VHF) Malrite Communications (1991) Univision Owned & Operated (O&O)
(Simulcasts on locally-owned WORA-TV 5 in Mayagüez)
WPGH-Pittsburgh bought 1986 for $35 million
Pittsburgh WPGH-TV 53 (UHF) Renaissance Broadcasting (1987) Fox network affiliate owned and operated by Sinclair Broadcast Group
WTTV-Indianapolis bought 1986 for $85 million. Now owned by Tribune Co.
Rankin/Bass Productions, made Christmas shows-owned/distributed by Telepictures between 1974 and 1988
75% stake in US Magazine (25% Jan Wenner) uncertain what happened but magazine is now 100% owned by Wenner
Karl Video distribution- bought by Lorimar in 1984
Bozell & Jacobs, Kenyon, Eckhardt ad firm
Lorimar acquired Bozell, Jacobs in 1986 for $41 million and Kenyon & Eckhardt in 1983 for $20 million. Management of Bozell bought the firms back in 9/1987 for $143 million
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