The following selection does not claim to present an exhaustive listing, but rather picks some of the company's most important assets. Due to the rapid developments in the world of media giants the list is also subject to changes.
Cable TV Systems and Channels/Networks
Cable TV channels/networks (some part-owned): HBO, HBO Plus, HBO Signature, HBO Family, HBO Comedy, HBO Zone, Cinemax, MoreMAX, ActionMAX, ThrillerMAX, HBO en Espa-ol, Comedy Central, Court TV, HBO Ole, HBO Asia, HBO Central Europe,
Movies, TV, Video Production, and Movie Theaters
Warner Bros. film studio
Warner Bros. Television production studios
Warner Bros. Home Video
Turner worldwide Home Video
Turner Pictures
Castle Rock Entertainment movie production company
New Line Cinema movie production company
Warner Bros. film library
Turner Film Library
Hanna Barbera Cartoons
Owns many movie houses, with over 1,000 screens, around the world
Book Publishing
Time Life Inc.
Book-of-the-Month Club
Warner Books
Little, Brown and Company
Oxmoor House
Leisure Arts
Sunset Books
Magazines
Time, People, Sports Illustrated, Fortune, Life, Money, Parenting, In Style, Entertainment Weekly, Cooking Light, Baby Talk, First Moments, Coastal Living, Health, Progressive Farmer, Southern Accents, Southern Living, Sports Illustrated, For Kids, Sunset, Teen People, Time for Kids, Weight Watchers, Mutual Funds, Your Company, Asiaweek, President, Wallpaper. Hippocrates
Recorded Music
Warner Music Group
The Atlantic Group
Elektra Entertainment Group
Rhino Entertainment
Sire Records Group
Warner Bros. Records
Warner Music International
WEA Inc.
WEA Corp.
WEA Manufacturing
Ivy Hill Corp.
Warner Special Products
Alternative Distribution Alliance
Giant Merchandising
Deals with record labels include:
Maverick records
Tommy Boy Sub Pop
Qwest
143 Records
Internet and New Media
About 130 Websites including: CNN.com, AllPolitics.com, CNNSI.com, Time Digital, People, Southern Living, Sports Illustrated
Turner New Media
Online Services including: Compuserve, Netscape, Netcenter
Pro Sports Teams and Promotions
Atlanta Braves major league baseball team
Atlanta Hawks NBA basketball team
World Championship Wrestling
Goodwill Games
Other
Six Flags entertainment/excursion parks
Warner Bros. Movie World theme park
Over 150 Warner Bros. stores, plus Turner Retail Group
25 % stake in Atari
14 % stake in Hasbro
Business Connections with Other Media Companies
Joint ventures, equity interests or major arrangements with
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The device presented a large number of books - a small library - laid open on lecterns on a kind of ferry-wheel. It allowed skipping chapters and browsing through pages by turning the wheel to bring lectern after lectern before the eyes. Ramelli's reading wheel thus linked ideas and texts and reminds of today's browsing software used to navigate the
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The first newspaper is printed in Europe.
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Being the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet, Cisco Systems is one of the most prominent companies of the Internet industry.
http://www.cisco.com
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The first half of the 20th century was the era of the vacuum tube in electronics. This variety of electron tube permitted the development of radio broadcasting, long-distance
A research and development program funded by the US government. Goal is the development of advanced networking technologies and applications requiring advanced networking with capabilities that are 100 to 1,000 times faster end-to-end than today's Internet.
http://www.ngi.gov