- Time Warner Inc.
- One Time Warner Center
New York, NY 10019
-
Voice (212) 484-8000
- http://www.timewarner.com/
- 1898
- Henry Luce, son of an American missionary, is born
in China
- 1918
- The four Warner Brothers, Jack, Albert, Harry and
Samuel, open their first West Coast studio
- 1921
- Luce and Yale classmate Briton Hadden begin working
together as reporters for The Baltimore News
- 1923
- The four brother's film distribution and production
business is incorporated and called Warner Brothers Pictures Inc.
- 1923
- Luce and Hadden use the $86,000 they raised to
release Time magazine. Hadden becomes editor while Luce serves
as business manager
- 1927
- Warner Brothers film production releases the first
"talkie" Al Jolson's The Jazz Singer
- 1928
- First Time Man-of-the-Year features Charles Lindbergh
- 1929
- Hadden dies of a streptococcus infection. Luce
takes over as Time editor
- 1930
- Fortune magazine is launched by Luce as part of
Time Inc.
- 1931
- March of Time radio program first airs
- 1934
- Luce launches Architectural Forum
- 1935
- March of Time newsreel first runs its first newsreel
- 1936
- Life magazine is launched
- 1937
- Detective Comics (DC) is created
- 1938
- Ted Turner born in Cincinnati, OH
- 1940
- Bugs Bunny appears for the first time in a Warner
Brothers' short A Wild Hare
- 1942
- arch of Time became straight news program
- 1944
- Leon Schlesinger sells his cartoon studio (Looney
Tunes) to Warner
- 1947
- Jack Warner testifies before House Committee on
Un-American Activities
- 1948
- Warner Brothers sells film library to MGM. The
Supreme Court's anti-trust Paramount Decree forces movie studios
to divest themselves from owning theaters
- 1950
- Elektra Records is founded by a college student,
Jac Holzman
- 1952
- House and Home magazine launched. Time makes first
investment in television industry by purchasing KOB-TV Albuquerque,
NM
- 1954
- Sports Illustrated is launched
- 1958
- Warner Bros. Records is founded. Label is later
called WEA (Warner/Elektra/Atlantic)
- 1960
- Brown University expels Ted Turner
- 1961
- Time-Life Inc. is formed to be Time Inc.'s book
division
- 1963
- Ted Turner's father Ed commits suicide because
of financial difficulties. Ted takes over family's billboard business
- 1963
- Animation division at Warner closed. Frank Sinatra
sells his Reprise record label to Warner Brothers
- 1967
- Henry Luce dies in Phoenix, Arizona
- 1967
- Seven Arts Ltd. buys Warner Brothers for $84 million.
Company becomes known as Warner-Seven Arts. Warner Seven-Arts
purchases Atlantic Records
- 1967
- New Line Cinema formed
- 1967
- Kinney National Company, a funeral parlor conglomerate
purchases D.C. Comics and All-American Comics. Kinney also buys
Ashley Famous talent agency
- 1968
- Time-Life Inc. acquires Little, Brown and Company
- 1969
- Kinney National Company acquires Warner-Seven Arts
and in 1972 renames the company Warner Communications Inc.
- 1970
- Holzman sells his Elektra Records to Warner Communications
- 1970
- Turner purchases Atlanta UHF television station,
WJRJ, renaming it WTCG (Turner Communications Group)]
- 1972
- Time Inc. buys Home Box Office (HBO) from Charles
Dolan. HBO transmits first programming to 365 subscribers in Wilkes-Barre,
PA. Money magazine launched
- 1974
- People magazine launched
- 1976
- Ted Turner purchases Major League Baseball's Atlanta
Braves. Turner Broadcasting's WTCG becomes cable television's
first Superstation as it is beamed via satellite to cable homes
across the country
- 1976
- Video game pioneer Nolan Bushnell sells Atari to
Warner Communications for $28 million.
- 1977
- Turner Communications Group purchases the National
Basketball Association's Atlanta Hawks. Turner wins yachting's
America's Cup
- 1978
- Warner Communications acquires cable operator American
Television & Communications (ATC)
- 1979
- Turner Communications Group becomes Turner Broadcasting
System, Inc. WTCG is renamed WTBS
- 1980
- The first 24-hour, all-news network, CNN, is launched
with 1.7 million subscribers
- 1982
- Turner Broadcasting launches CNN Headline News
and thwarts a takeover attempt by Westinghouse
- 1984
- Warner Communications sells most of its stake in
Atari off to Jack Tramiel, deposed president of Commodore Computers.
- 1986
- Time acquires Scott Foresman & Company book
publishing unit
- 1986
- Turner Broadcasting buys MGM library of movies
and television shows
- 1987
- Warner acquires Chappell Music
- 1988
- TNT cable network launched
- 1989
- Time Warner Inc. is formed after Time merges with
Warner Communications
- 1989
- Publishing houses Scott Foresman and Little, Brown
sold off to Harper Row
- 1990
- Entertainment Weekly is launched
- 1991
- The Internet bulletin-board system Quantum Computer
Services changes name to America Online. Steve Case is one of
the company's founders
- 1991
- The Tribune Company receives a 9% stake in AOL
after making a $5 million investment in the company
- 1992
- Gerald Levin takes control of Time Warner after
death of Steven J. Ross. New York 1 News launched
- 1992
- America Online becomes a publicly traded company
- 1992
- Turner Broadcasting launches Cartoon Network
- 1993
- Turner Broadcasting System merges with Castle Rock
and New Line
- 1994
- AOL reaches 1 million subscribers
- 1994
- Turner Classic Movies is launched
- 1994
- Warner/Chappell Music becomes the world's largest
music publisher after it acquires CPP/Belwin
- 1994
- In Style magazine is launched
- 1994
- Edgar Bronfman Jr.'s Seagram company acquires a
14.5% stake in Time Warner
- 1995
- AOL launches services in Europe. AOL purchases
WebCrawler
- 1995
- Time Warner acquires Houston Industries
- 1995
- WB network broadcast network is launched
- 1996
- Telecommunications Act of 1996. Time Warner acquires
Turner Broadcasting System
- 1997
- Time Warner sells American Lawyer magazine to investment
bankers Wasserstein Perella
- 1997
- AOL acquires CompuServe and ICQ
- 1998
- AOL acquires Netscape
- 1999
- AOL acquires Spinner, Winamp, SHOUTcast and DMS
- 1999
- Turner acquires a National Hockey League expansion
franchise. The Atlanta Thrashers begin play in 1999
- 2000
- AOL acquires MapQuest
- 2000
- Time Warner makes deal with Tribune Company for
Times Mirror magazines that include Golf, Ski, Skiing, Field &
Stream, and Yachting
- 2000
- AOL and Time Warner announce their $183 billion
merger. The largest corporate merger in history is finalized in
January of 2001. The world's largest media and entertainment company
changes name to AOL Time Warner
- 2001
- AOL Time Warner acquires the United Kingdom's top
magazine publisher, IPC Media, from Cinven for $1.67 billion.
- 2002
- AOL Time Warner buys out AT&T's stake in Time
Warner Entertainment. AOL-Time Warner then created its own cable
operation while AT&T merged with Comcast.
- 2003
- Steve Case steps down as AOL Time Warner chairman.
Dick Parsons replaces Case. AOL Time Warner reports $54.24 billion
quarterly loss. Company changes name back to Time Warner
- 2004
- Time Warner sells the Atlanta Hawks, Atlanta Thrashers, and Philips
Arena to a local investment group
- 2004
- The Time Warner Center opens
- 2004
- Time Warner finalizes deal to sell the WEA CD and DVD manufacturing
division to Cinram International. The company agrees to sell Warner Music
Group (including its record labels Warner Brothers, Atlantic, Elektra and
music publishing division Warner Chappell) to private investor group led by
Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
- 2005
- Ex-executive chairman Steve Case resigns from Time Warner board
- 2005
- Time Warner donated the maximum contribution of $250,000 to George W. Bush's second presidential inauguration
- 2006
- Global publishing company Hachette Book Group USA (HBG) acquired the Time Warner Book Group from Time Warner
- 2007
- New CEO Jeffrey Bewkes considers such cost-trimming measures as selling AOL and Time Inc
- 2008
- Michael Lynne and Bob Shaye, o-chairmen and CEOs of New Line Cinema, resign from their positions, protesting Bewkes' alleged plans to dissolve the movie studio into Warner Bros. and thus cut costs
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- last updated 4/24/2013