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Turner To Slash International Staff

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Tuesday January 15, 2013 @ 7:05am PSTTags: CNN, Turner Broadcasting System

Time Warner subsidiary Turner Broadcasting is expected to lay off 30% of its staff in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, according to reports. The news follows a review of the company’s businesses in the regions that was launched in September last year. TBS president of international Gerhard Zeiler said today, “This review required us taking some tough decisions, but they are absolutely necessary to put Turner International in the best possible position for future growth.” About 250 people are expected to lose their jobs. TBS has 17 branded channels in the EMEA region including CNN, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, TCM and Boomerang. CNN, however, will not be affected, The Guardian notes.

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UPDATE: Major League Baseball Will Double Annual Rights Fees Following New Deals With Turner And Fox

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Tuesday October 2, 2012 @ 12:56pm PDTTags: Fox Sports Media Group, Major League Baseball, Turner Broadcasting System

UPDATE, 12:56 PM: The eight-year agreement with Fox Sports Media Group is the second shoe to drop today in Major League Baseball’s renewal deals, following the one we reported earlier with Turner. When you add these agreements with the one that MLB previously struck with ESPN, the league says that it will see a 100% increase in its annual rights fees compared with its current deals. That jibes with earlier leaks about the terms. In the new arrangement, which begins in 2014, Fox will keep the World Series and All-Star Game and share the League Championship Series and Division series with TBS and MLB Network. Fox will be able to broadcast 52 regular season games nationally on Saturdays, up from 26, and Fox can air 12 of them exclusively. The network also agreed to air a weekly 30-minute show created by Major League Baseball Productions. The pacts include TV Everywhere rights. They also end blackouts that prevented subscribers of MLB Extra Innings and MLB.tv from watching Saturday out-of-market games. Baseball Commissioner Allan H. (Bud) Selig says that “the unprecedented and historic commitment these networks have made to televising Major League Baseball for years to come is truly amazing.”

The big question now is whether the networks will be able to pass some of the new costs off to pay TV distributors — and, by extension, consumers who might have to pay higher monthly bills. The deals with Fox and Turner will cost $6.8B over the eight years, Sports Business Daily reports.  That comes to an average of $525M a year for Fox, and $325M a year for Turner. “The plain truth is that these MLB deals will send monthly pay-TV bills streaking skyward,” says American Cable Association Matthew Polka. “They will make life hard for families whose incomes, hammered by the recession, can’t keep pace with the greed of broadcasters, cable networks and sports leagues. And these MLB deals follow the announcement of equally harmful deals between the National Football League and CBS, NBC, Fox and ESPN worth more than $42 billion.”

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Turner Broadcasting Buys Online Sports Site ‘Bleacher Report’

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Monday August 6, 2012 @ 4:04pm PDTTags: Turner Broadcasting System

Time Warner’s cable network unit is said to have paid about $175M for the San Francisco-based digital publication that features user-generated articles for sports fans. The Bleacher Report (also known as B/R) is “a strategic acquisition” that “reflects our … Read More »

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David Eilenberg Named SVP Unscripted Development At TBS And TNT

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday July 10, 2012 @ 9:41am PDTTags: Mark Burnett, TBS, TNT, Turner Broadcasting System

David Eilenberg had been head of development and current programming at Mark Burnett Productions, where he worked on such series as The Voice, The Apprentice and Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader? At TBS and … Read More »

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Conan O’Brien Jabs Oprah Winfrey And Ted Turner At Turner Broadcasting Upfront

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Wednesday May 16, 2012 @ 8:43am PDTTags: Conan O'Brien, Oprah Winfrey, Ted Turner, Turner Broadcasting System

Conan O'Brien Upfront 2012The late-night comic didn’t bring his best material this year. Conan O’Brien told advertisers that if the upfront event were held on Skype, then “we wouldn’t have to wear pants.” He also zinged Turner Broadcasting … Read More »

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Turner Hires Gerhard Zeiler To Run International Unit After He Exits RTL Group

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday February 7, 2012 @ 12:48pm PSTTags: Phil Kent, Turner Broadcasting System

Turner Broadcasting System has landed one of Europe’s top TV executives, Gerhard Zeiler, and is making him president of its international division. The announcement today comes hours after Zeiler stepped down as CEO of RTL Group, Europe’s largest TV production and broadcast company. As president of Turner Broadcasting System International, he will report to TBS Inc chairman and CEO Phil Kent and lead a 3,800-person division across Europe, Asia-Pacific and Latin America. Zeiler will have executive oversight for all entertainment and kids networks and media services offered outside of North America; the distribution and commercial operations of CNN’s international services; all of Turner’s international joint ventures; and all licensing and merchandising. Turner operates more than 130 channels in more than 30 languages in about 200 countries and operates versions of CNN, TNT, Cartoon Network and Turner Classic Movies, as well as country- and region-specific networks and businesses. Read More »

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Turner’s Phil Kent Keynote To Open NATPE

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday November 15, 2011 @ 3:56pm PSTTags: Monaco Media Forum, NATPE, NATPE 2012, Phil Kent, Turner Broadcasting System

Turner Broadcasting System chairman and CEO Phil Kent has been tapped to give the keynote address on the first day of NATPE|Content First, the annual global content market for buyers and sellers that is set to run January 23-25 in … Read More »

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Turner Inks Shaquille O’Neal As NBA Analyst And More

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday July 14, 2011 @ 1:05pm PDTTags: TNT, Turner Broadcasting System

Former NBA superstar Shaquille O’Neal can dunk, but can he make TV audiences laugh? We may soon find out. The contract he just signed with Turner Broadcasting to be an analyst for TNT’s basketball games also includes an entertainment and animation development deal. “O’Neal is a member of the Screen Actor’s Guild, with entertainment credits including a number of roles and executive producer credits in both television and film,” the company says. Here’s the release: Read More »

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‘Inception,’ ‘Titans’ Headed To TNT

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday July 21, 2010 @ 2:42pm PDTTags: Broadcast Licensing Fees, Clash of the Titans, Due Date, Inception, Jonah Hex, TBS, TNT, Turner Broadcasting System, Valentine's Day, Warner Bros
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inception posterTNT has landed the TV rights to Chris Nolan’s blockbuster Inception in a deal between parent company Turner and corporate sibling Warner Bros. that includes several other WB titles: romantic comedies Sex And the City 2 and Valentine’s Day, … Read More »

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Turner Broadcasting Inc Ups Two Publicists

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Thursday June 24, 2010 @ 12:00pm PDTTags: Big Media, TBS Inc., Time Warner, Turner Broadcasting System

Time Warner’s Turner Broadcasting System, Inc, announced today that, effective immediately, Jeff Matteson assumes strategic and operating oversight of the TBS, Inc communications team, directing and coordinating messaging across the Turner portfolio of networks and businesses in the newly created role of senior vice president and strategic communications officer. … Read More »

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