Time Warner Inc. is the world's second largest media company with major Internet, publishing, film, telecommunications and television divisions after News Corporation.
This is a listing of all of its brands, as shown at the company's website.
[edit] Current assets
HBO
Turner Broadcasting
Warner Bros
Time Inc.
[edit] Former assets
[edit] Dormant or shuttered Time Warner businesses
These are Time Warner divisions which have been closed or absorbed into another part of the company.
- The WB Television Network - merged with UPN to form The CW in 2006
- Lorimar Productions - merged into Warner Bros. Television in 1993
- Telepictures - merged with Lorimar in 1986, and with WBTV in 1989
- Lorimar-Telepictures - formed in 1986 as a merger of Lorimar and Telepictures, became holding company for the separate names in 1988, and merged with WB in 1989
- Associated Artists Productions - formed in 1953, bought pre-1950 Warner library in 1956, sold to United Artists in 1958 and to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1981; the company's distribution functions were originally absorbed into United Artists Television, and later into MGM Television and Turner Entertainment, finally passing on to WB in 1996
- Turner Program Services - Formed in 1982, merged into WBTV's distribution arm in 1996
- Turner Pictures - merged into Warner Bros. in 2003
- Hanna-Barbera - merged into Warner Bros. Animation in 2001
- Ruby-Spears Productions - Hanna-Barbera's sister company.
- Talent Associates - sold to HBO in unknown time period, now part of HBO Enterprises
- Seven Arts Productions - merged with WB in 1967
- Sunset Productions - merged with Guild Films and later Seven Arts
- Motion Pictures for Television and Guild Films - both were later absorbed into Seven Arts
- Monogram Pictures/Allied Artists Pictures Corporation - sold to Lorimar in 1979
- Interstate Television - founded in early 1950s as the TV arm of Allied Artists, became Allied Artists Television in 1960s and was folded into Lorimar with the rest of AAPC in 1979
- Picturehouse - renamed from Fine Line Features in 2005, shuttered in 2008
- Warner Independent Pictures - closed in 2008
- National General Pictures - sold to WB at unknown time
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