Posted on 04/25/2003 10:25:29 AM PDT by Helms
Holdings
This listing is indicative only.
Book Publishing
Imprints include -
Time-Life International Books Time-Life Education Time-Life Music Time-Life AudioBooks Book-of-the-Month Club Paperback Book Club Children's Book-of-the-Month Club History Book Club Money Book Club HomeStyle Books Crafter's Choice One Spirit Little, Brown Bulfinch Press Back Bay Books Warner Books Warner Vision The Mysterious Press Warner Aspect Warner Treasures Oxmoor House Leisure Arts Sunset Books TW Kids Leisure Arts
Cable and Satellite
US operations include -
HBO Home Video HBO Pictures/HBO Showcase HBO Independent Productions HBO Downtown Productions HBO NYC Productions HBO Animation HBO Sports Cinemax Time Warner Sports
International
HBO Asia HBO en Espa–ol HBO Ole (with Sony) HBO Poland (with Sony) HBO Brasil (with Sony) HBO Hungary Cinemax Selecciones
Other Operations
HBO Direct (DBS) Comedy Central (50% owned with Viacom) CNN CNN CNN/SI CNN International CNN en Espanol CNN Headline News CNN Airport Network CNN fn CNN Radio CNN Interactive Court TV (with Liberty Media) Time Warner Cable Road Runner (high speed cable modem to the Internet, with MediaOne Group, Microsoft, and Compaq) Time Warner Communications (telephone service) New York City Cable Group (major cable network with around 1 million subscribers) New York 1 News (24 hour news channel devoted only to NYC) Time Warner Home Theater (Pay-Per-View) Time Warner Security (residential and commercial security monitoring) Kablevision (53.75% - cable television in Hungary)
Film & TV Production/Distribution
A detailed profile of the Warner production, distribution and exhibition arm is here. The major units are -
Warner Bros. Warner Bros. Studios Warner Bros. Television (production) The WB Television Network Warner Bros. Television Animation Hanna - Barbera Cartoons Telepictures Production Witt - Thomas Productions Castle Rock Entertainment Warner Home Video Warner Bros. Domestic Pay - TV Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution Warner Bros. International Television Distribution The Warner Channel (Latin America, Asia - Pacific, Australia, Germ.) Warner Bros. International Theaters (owns/operates multiplex theaters in over 12 countries)
Magazines
Time Time Asia Time Atlantic Time Canada Time Latin America Time South Pacific Time Money Time For Kids Fortune Life Sports Illustrate Sports Illustrated Women/Sport Sports Illustrated International SI for Kids Inside Stuff Money Your Company Your Future People Who Weekly (Australian edition) People en Espa–ol Teen People Entertainment Weekly EW Metro The Ticket In Style Southern Living Progressive Farmer Southern Accents Cooking Light Parenting Baby Talk Baby on the Way This Old House Sunset Sunset Garden Guide Health Hippocrates Coastal Living Weight Watchers Real Simple President (Japan) Dancyu (Japan) Wallpaper (UK)
Over 100 titles under the IPC umbrella in the UK, including
19 25 Beautiful Homes Aeroplane Amateur Gardening Amateur Photographer Angler's Mail Bird Keeper Cage & Aviary Birds Cars & Car Conversions Caravan Chat Classic Boat Country Homes & Interiors Country Life Cycle Sport Cycling Weekly Decanter essentials Eventing Family Circle Farm Holiday Guides Golf Monthly The Guitar Magazine Hair Hi-Fi News Homes & Gardens Horse Horse & Hound Ideal Home International Boat Industry Land Rover World Livingetc Loaded Marie Claire MiniWorld Mizz Model Collector Motor Boats Monthly Motor Boat & Yachting Motor Caravan Magazine Mountain Bike Rider Muzik NME Now 4x4 Park Home & Holiday Caravan Practical Boat Owner Practical Parenting Prediction Racecar Engineering The Railway Magazine Rugby World Ships Monthly Shoot Monthly Shooting Times Soaplife Sporting Gun Stamp Magazine SuperBike The Field The Golf TVTimes TV & Satellite Week Uncut VolksWorld Webuser Wedding & home What Digital Camera What's on TV Woman Woman & Home Woman's Own Woman's Weekly Women & Golf World Soccer Yachting Monthly Yachting World Yachting & Boating World
American Express Publishing Corporation (partial ownership/management)
Travel & Leisure Food & Wine Your Company Departures SkyGuide
DC Comics
Vertigo Paradox Milestone Mad Magazine
Music Recording Labels
The Atlantic Group Atlantic Classics Atlantic Jazz Atlantic Nashville Atlantic Theater Big Beat Blackground Breaking Curb Igloo Lava Mesa/Bluemoon Modern 1 43 Rhino Records Elektra Entertainment Group Elektra EastWest Asylum Elektra/Sire Warner Brothers Records Warner Brothers Warner Nashville Warner Alliance Warner Resound Warner Sunset Reprise Reprise Nashville American Recordings Giant Maverick Revolution Qwest Warner Music International WEA Telegram East West ZTT Coalition CGD East West China Continential DRO East West Erato Fazer Finlandia Magneoton MCM Nonesuch Teldec
Other Recording Interests and Joint Ventures
Warner/Chappell Music (publishing company)
WEA Inc. (sales, distribution and manufacturing)
Ivy Hill Corporation (printing and packaging)
Warner Special Products
Columbia House (minor stake with Sony - direct marketing)
Music Sound Exchange (with Sony - direct marketing)
Music Choice and Music Choice Europe (with Sony, EMI and General Instrument)
Viva (with Sony, Vivendi and EMI) - German music video channel
Channel V (with Sony, EMI, Bertelsmann and News)
Heartland Music (50% - direct order of country and gospel music)
Online/Other Publishing
AOL
Road Runner (with Microsoft)
Warner Publisher Services
Time Distribution Services
American Family Publishers (50%)
Pathfinder
Africana.com
Retail & Parks
Warner Bros. Consumer Products
Warner Bros. Studio Stores (250 stores worldwide in over 30 countries)
Warner Brothers Recreation Enterprises - owns/operates international theme parks (Australian parks are in partnership with Village Roadshow)
Turner Entertainment
Entertainment Networks
TBS Superstation
Turner Network Television (TNT)
Turner South
Cartoon Network
Turner Classic Movies
Cartoon Network in Europe
Cartoon Network in Latin America
TNT & Cartoon Network in Asia/Pacific
Film Production
New Line Cinema
Fine Line Features
Turner Original Productions
Sports
Atlanta Braves
Atlanta Hawks
Atlanta Thrashers
Turner Sports
World Championship Wrestling
Good Will Games
Philips Arena
Other Operations
Turner Learning
CNN Newsroom (daily news program for classrooms)
Turner Adventure Learning (electronic field trips for schools)
Turner Home Satellite
Turner Network Sales
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History
This chronology is indicative only. There's a broader communications and media timeline on this site. The Cinetext.net site features a more detailed profile of Warner Bros..
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1907 four Warner brothers establish film distribution business and move into production
1917 Warners have first major success with My 4 Years In Germany
1918 brothers open their first West Coast Studio on Sunset Boulevard
1923 Time launched by Henry Luce & Britton Hadden
1923 Warner Brothers incorporated
1925 Warners establish Vitaphone Co., begin experimental sound pictures at Warner Vitagraph studio in Brooklyn
1926 Warners Don Juan, starring John Barrymore, features music but no spoken dialogue
1927 Warners move Vitaphone to Hollywood, release Al Jolson's The Jazz Singer
1930 Luce's Fortune magazine launched
1931 March of Time broadcast launched
1932 Luce buys Architectural Forum
1935 first Porky Pig cartoon from Warners animation unit
1935 March of Time newsreel launched 1936 Life launched
1937 Detective Comics (DC) founded
1939 All-American Comics founded
1940 Bugs Bunny introduced by Warners
1944 twilight of the Studio System, with court ruling that Warners must release Olivia de Havilland after 7 year contract
1945 Warners increases stake in ABPC to 37.5%
1947 Atlantic Records founded
1948 much of Warners film library sold to MGM
1949 Warners ordered to divest cinema chain
1949 Warners begins to license cartoon characters to children's clothing manufacturers
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1950 Elektra Records founded by Jac Holzman
1954 Sports Illustrated launched
1957 Time-Life buys Indianapolis television station
1958 Warner Bros. Records founded, later renamed WEA
1963 Warners closes animation unit
1963 Warners buys Sinatra's ailing Reprise records
1967 Jack Warner sells his stake in Warners to Seven Arts
1967 Atlantic records bought by Warner-Seven Arts
1967 DC and All-American Comics bought by parking-lot to funeral parlour conglomerate Kinney National Services
1967 Kinney buys Ashley Famous talent agency
1967 New Line Cinema founded
1968 Time buys Boston publishing house Little, Brown (founded 1837)
1969 Warner-Seven Arts acquired by Kinney National and becomes Warner Communications
1970 Warner Music opens in Australia
1970 Warner Communications buys Elektra records
1970 Geffen founds Asylum label
1972 Time buys out Charles Dolan from Home Box Office (HBO) cable tv network, Dolan establishes Cablevision
1972 Money launched
1972 Life ceases
1973 Time buys pulp and paper group Temple Industries to form Temple-Eastex
1974 People launched
1976 Turner buys Arlanta Braves sports team
1976 Nolan Bushnell sells Atari to Warners for US $28 million
1976 Turner's WTCG in Atlanta beamed via satellite to US cable networks
1977 Turner buys Atlanta Hawks
1978 Time buys cable operator American Television & Communications
1979 Turner Communications Group becomes Turner Broadcasting System, WTCG is renamed WTBS
1980 CNN, world's first 24-hour all-news network
1982 Tri-Star Pictures formed by CBS television, HBO and Columbia Pictures
1984 Time spins off Temple-Eastex and Inland Container Corporation to form Temple-Inland
1984 Warner sells most of loss-making Atari to founder of Commodore Computers
1984 Warner sells cosmetics business
1985 Quantum Computer Services formed, later renamed AOL
1985 Time buys Southern Progress group (founded 1886), with Progressive Farmer (1886), Southern Living (1966) and Oxmoor House (1969)
1985 Time buys Scott Foresman publishing group
1985 Laurence Tisch buys 25% of CBS to thwart Turner bid
1986 Turner buys MGM film library
1987 Warner buys Chappell Music publishing company for US$275m
1988 WEA buys Teldec records (Germany) and Magnet records (UK)
1989 Time Warner created with Time's acquisition of Warner Communications
1989 WEA buys CGD Records (Italy) and MMG Records (Japan)
1989 Scott, Foresman and Little, Brown sold to Murdoch-controlled Harper & Row
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1989 Quantum renamed America Online
1990 Entertainment Weekly launched
1990 New Line Cinema launches art house division, Fine Line Features
1990 WEA buys Carrere Disques (France)
1991 Chicago Tribune takes 10% stake in AOL for US$5m
1992 WEA buys Erato records (France)
1993 WEA buys Spanish DRO Group, Hungarian Magneoton label, Swedish label Telegram Records, Continental Records in Brazil and Finnish Fazer Musiiki
1994 Time Warner launches Pathfinder magazine portal
1994 Warner/Chappell Music acquires CPP/Belwin, becoming world's largest music publisher and largest publisher of printed music
1994 Turner Broadcasting System, Castle Rock and New Line Cinema merge
1994 Seagram buys 14.5% stake in Time Warner
1994 AOL reaches 1 million subscribers and links to the internet for the first time
1995 AOL buys WebCrawler, Ubique, ANS, Global Network Navigator, WAIS, Medior, BookLink Technologies and NaviSoft
1995 Time Warner buys Houston Industries cable tv network for $2.3bn
1995 WB Network launched
1995 AOL Germany
1996 US Telecommunications Act results in billions of dollars of broadcast properties changing hands
1996 rest of Atari sold to Midway Games
1996 Time Warner takes over Turner Broadcasting System
1996 AOL buys games specialist ImagiNation Network
1996 AOL UK, AOL Canada and AOL France
1996 AOL launches Buddy List instant message feature for AOL members and AIM instant message service for internet users
1997 AOL chat rooms opened to advertisers
1997 Time Warner sells American Lawyer magazines for US$63m
1998 AOL buys CompuServe and ICQ online messaging
1998 WEA buys 90% of Nuova Fonit Cetra, Italian record and music publishing group
1998 AOL and Bertelsmann launch AOL Australia
1998 forms AOL Latin America with Cisneros
1999 AOL buys Netscape, MovieFone, Spinner, Winamp, SHOUTcast and DMS
1999 Time Warner Cable trials video-on-demand in Austin and Tampa
2000 Time Warner buys Times Mirror Magazines from Tribune Company, including Golf, Ski, Skiing, Field & Stream, Yachting and other titles
2000 AOL buys online travel information provider MapQuest
2000 AOL merges with Time Warner
2001 global AOL subscribers surpass 30 million
2001 Asiaweek, Family Life and On closed
2001 AOLTW announces plan to spend US$6.75bn buying Bertelsmann's 49.5% stake in AOL Europe
2001 buys IPC Magazines from Cinven for £1.15bn
2002 AT&T sells stake in Time Warner Cable
2002 AOLTW buys 15.3% of VIVA Media from EMI
2002 buys Warren Miller Films
2002 buys 50% of music publisher Deston Songs from edel music AG
2003 Warner Bros sells stake in Australian cinema joint venture (319 screens in 29 multiplexes) to AHL's Greater Union and Village Roadshow
1963 Warners closes animation unit...thus ending the golden age of cartoon animation.
1972 Life ceasesPretty funny, taken out of context. Kinda sounds like a Paul Erlich prediction from the 1960s.
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