race, and bought a bankrupt tv station. it was a broken down uhf television station in atlanta. television at its basest form. hello, i m bill teish. what next? using that little station to launch a huge idea. he began to tell me about how he was going to transform uhf television into this new world of satellite television. we changed the name of turner communications to the turner broadcasting system. ted renamed the nation wtbs. it became the nation s first superstation. and was one of the first channels of what would evolve into a cable universe with thousands more. this is wtbs, atlanta, georgia. in the early days of the superstation, programming still was at a premium. and we didn t have as much as we needed. and that programming didn t give the small station the national footprint ted wanted.
race, and bought a bankrupt tv station. it was a broken down uhf television station in atlanta. television at its basest form. what next? using that little station to launch a huge idea. he began to tell me about how he was going to transform uhf television into this new world of satellite television. we changed the name of turner communications to the turner broadcasting system. ted renamed the nation wtbs. it became the nation s first superstation. and was one of the first channels of what would evolve into a cable universe with thousands more. in the early days of the superstation, programming still was at a premium. and we didn t have as much as we needed. and that programming didn t give the small station the national footprint ted wanted.
television into this new world of satellite television. we changed the name of turner communications to the turner broadcasting system. ted renamed the nation wtbs. it became the nation s first superstation. and was one of the first channels of what would evolve into a cable universe with thousands more. in the early days of the superstation, programming still was at a premium. and we didn t have as much as we needed. and that programming didn t give the small station the national footprint ted wanted. his solution buy a baseball team. the braves broadcast nationwide on tbs, became america s team. come see the big league team with little league spirit. hey, we re in atlanta. we didn t see the future like ted did.