Turner Program Services

Turner Program Services was the former syndication arm of Turner Broadcasting. It served the same purpose as Turner Entertainment's distribution unit, with the exception that TPS was more involved in distributing television series rather than films.

Founded in 1982, the company was originally responsible for syndicating Turner-produced programs (such as the syndicated game show Starcade) as well as developing programming for TBS such as Night Tracks. TPS expanded its distribution into other networks' series in the 1990s, syndicating series such as The Wonder Years (which is now owned by 20th Television since 2011). When Turner bought the rights to the Hanna-Barbera library of cartoons TPS became their distributor to local stations.

One of the more notable series TPS was responsible for developing was Captain Planet and the Planeteers, which was a co-production with DiC Entertainment and centered on a character created by Turner Broadcasting founder Ted Turner. DiC and Turner combined on the development of the series while TPS was responsible for the distribution of the series, which aired on both TBS and in syndication. (When the series' sequel, The New Adventures of Captain Planet, debuted in 1993, Turner Entertainment through Hanna-Barbera developed and produced the series on its own, and neither TPS nor DiC was involved.)

Also, earlier in 1986, TPS, with the help of veteran anime translator Fred Ladd, produced a second English translation of the 1970s anime Science Ninja Team Gatchaman called G-Force: Guardians of Space, which would subsequently air on TBS (1986) and Cartoon Network (1995–1997). TPS also held partial distribution rights to G-Force (along with King Features Entertainment) until all rights to the series reverted to license holder Sandy Frank Entertainment in 2003.

Upon Time Warner's purchase of Turner in 1996, TPS was merged into Telepictures Productions and the combined entity became known as Telepictures Distribution, which is now part of Warner Bros. Television Distribution (Telepictures still exists as a production company).

Turner Broadcasting System

North American television

TBS Europe

Boing	Africa France Italy Spain

Boomerang	Central and Eastern Europe Arab World, Africa, Greece and Cyprus France Germany Italy Netherlands Nordic Portugal Turkey UK & Ireland

Cartoon Network	Arabic Arab World and Africa Central & Eastern Europe France Germany Italy Netherlands Nordic Poland Portugal CIS and Southeastern Europe Turkey UK & Ireland

Turner Classic Movies	Arab World and Africa Nordic UK & Ireland

TNT	Comedy Film Serie Nordic

NonStop Television	Luxe.tv Mezzo TV

Others	Cartoon Network +1 Cartoonito CNN International CNN Türk TruTV (UK and Ireland) Toonami (France)

TBS Asia Pacific

Cartoon Network	Australia and New Zealand China (on demand) India Japan Pakistan Philippines⁴ Southeast Asia South Korea Taiwan

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Others	Boomerang Australia and New Zealand Boomerang Southeast Asia Boomerang South Korea Teletoon China Entertainment Television Imagine TV Lumiere Movies Oh!K Pogo Real Toonami Asia Toonami India TruTV Turner Classic Movies WB Channel Warner Channel World Heritage Channel

TBS Latin America

TV production/distribution

Internet assets

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^Note 1 Owned by the NBA, operated by Turner.
^Note 2 Operated by the Meredith Corporation under a local marketing agreement.
^Note 3 Co-owned by Trans Media.
^Note 4 Co-owned with Nine Media Corporation and Radio Philippines Network through a brand licensing agreement.

^Note 5 Assets now owned by WWE, Inc. through WCW, Inc.

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