AOL Time Warner Inc. 1970s

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1979
Turner Communications Group becomes Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., and WTCG is renamed WTBS

1978
Time Inc. acquires cable operator American Television & Communications (ATC)

1977
Turner Communications Group purchases controlling interest in NBA's Atlanta Hawks

1976
Turner Broadcasting's WTCG in Atlanta is beamed via satellite to cable homes nationwide, becoming cable's first superstation

1976
Turner Communications Group purchases MLB's Atlanta Braves

1974
People magazine launches

1972
Home Box Office transmits first programming to 365 subscribers in Wilkes-Barre, PA

1972
Money magazine launches

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