Uploaded July 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Original incarnation of TNT as Ted's Saturday sports network - NCAA and SEC college ball. These IDs were used for sports affiliate stations, often as out-cues for affiliates.
We were carrying one year of NCAA Football every Saturday - another year for SEC Football. A lot of stations wanted to carry those games from us, so "Turner Network Television" came into being around 1983, as the umbrella network for (TBS's) college football.
I flew in separate gold pieces over a blue-matted background, that was actually the floor tile in engineering. Much better job with the "floor tile background" on a1983 Coming Up Next for TBS - this was quickly knocked out in an evening in TBS Control B, with Quad videotape machines no less!
Original incarnation of TNT as Ted's Saturday sports network - NCAA and SEC college ball. These IDs were used for sports affiliate stations, often as out-cues for affiliates.
We were carrying one year of NCAA Football every Saturday - another year for SEC Football. A lot of stations wanted to carry those games from us, so "Turner Network Television" came into being around 1983, as the umbrella network for (TBS's) college football.
I flew in separate gold pieces over a blue-matted background, that was actually the floor tile in engineering. Much better job with the "floor tile background" on a1983 Coming Up Next for TBS - this was quickly knocked out in an evening in TBS Control B, with Quad videotape machines no less!
