TURNER ACQUIRES `PATIENT,' `SHINE' FOR BROADCAST.Byline: Daily News Wire Services Turner Broadcasting System Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (often abbreviated TBS Networks or TBS, inc.) is the company managing the collection of cable networks and properties started by Robert Edward "Ted" Turner from the mid-1970s to the late-1990s. Inc. announced the acquisition of the exclusive U.S. network television premiere rights to the multiple Oscar nominees ``The English Patient'' and ``Shine.'' TBS also acquired ``Evita'' under the deal, as well as the 1995 Woody Allen comedy ``Mighty Aphrodite Aphrodite (ăfrədī`tē), in Greek religion and mythology, goddess of fertility, love, and beauty. Homer designated her the child of Zeus and Dione. ,'' ``Jackie Chan's First Strike'' and ``The Island of Dr. Moreau,'' starring Val Kilmer and Marlon Brando. The titles will premiere on either Turner Network Television Turner Network Television, usually referred to as TNT, is an American cable TV network created by media mogul Ted Turner and currently owned by the Turner Broadcasting System division of Time Warner. (TNT TNT: see trinitrotoluene. TNT in full trinitrotoluene Pale yellow, solid organic compound made by adding nitrate (−NO2) groups to toluene. ) or the TBS Superstation. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Bradley J. Siegel, president of TNT and Turner Classic Movies, said the acquisition will ``continue to push viewers and ratings from the broadcast networks to basic cable.'' In January, Turner Broadcasting and Warner Bros BROS Brothers BROS Benefits and Retirement Operations Section (King County, Washington) BROS Barnes and Richmond Operatic Society (London, UK) . announced a deal bringing to TBS and TNT the U.S. network television premiere rights to such titles as ``Space Jam,'' ``Michael'' and Tim Burton's ``Mars Attacks!'' It was the second such agreement for TBS, which also recently acquired the network broadcast premiere windows to such titles as ``The Shawshank Redemption,'' ``The American President,'' ``Dumb and Dumber'' and ``Don Juan DeMarco,'' all of which will premiere on TNT or TBS later this year or in 1998. |
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