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TBS originated as a terrestrial television station in Atlanta, Georgia that began operating on UHF channel 17 on September 1, 1967, under the WJRJ-TV call letters.That station—which its original parent originally filed to transmit UHF channel 46, before modifying it to assign channel 17 as its frequency in February 1966—was founded by Rice Broadcasting Inc. (owned by Atlanta entrepreneur ...
WTCG/WTBS/TBS: 1977–2007; FanDuel Sports South: 1991–present; FanDuel Sports Network Southeast 2000–present; WPCH-TV (Peachtree TV; formerly WTBS): 2008–12, 2025-present Comcast/Charter Sports Southeast aired Peachtree TV broadcasts outside Atlanta DMA: 2008–10; FSN South aired Peachtree TV broadcasts outside Atlanta DMA: 2011–12
Braves TBS Baseball (1973–2007) College Football on TBS (1982–2006) NASCAR on TBS (1983–2000) NBA on TBS (1984–2002) U.S. Olympic Gold (1989–92) NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship (2016–17)
Atlanta Braves baseball games had been a local staple on Atlanta independent station WTBS (channel 17, now WPCH-TV; which, like TBS, was owned by Ted Turner's Turner Broadcasting System) since Turner acquired the team's broadcast rights in 1973, and subsequently gained national prominence when the station was uplinked to satellite in December 1976, becoming one of America's first superstations.
On January 28, 2007, TBS' executive producer Jeff Behnke [9] said that Chip Caray "is definitely going to be TBS' lead play-by-play announcer for division series and LCS games." [ 10 ] Indeed, TBS announced in April 2007 that Baseball Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn , who has experience in broadcasting with ESPN and the San Diego Padres , would join ...
The division began in the 1970s as the sports division of Turner Broadcasting System's basic cable networks, with separate TBS Sports and TNT Sports brands for TBS and TNT, respectively. In 1995, a unified Turner Sports rebranding began to be used, accompanied by an intro and outro sequence featuring the voice of CNN Headline News anchor Don ...
It was possible for TBS to be broadcast over-the-air along with Peachtree TV; however, the station did not release any information on what it planned to do with the new channel. In September 2017, the 17.2 subchannel returned as a standard-definition simulcast of the main channel, carrying Court TV as of 2021.
On September 22, 1995, Time Warner Entertainment—a New York City-based media company formed in 1989 through the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Bros. corporate parent Warner Communications—reached an agreement to acquire the Turner Broadcasting System and its associated properties (including TNT, TBS, CNN, Headline News and Cartoon Network ...