TNT Sports (United States)
TNT Sports (formerly known as Turner Sports and briefly as Warner Bros. Discovery Sports) is the division of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) that is responsible for sports broadcasts on its parent company's streaming service Max and on their various cable channels in the United States, including TBS, TNT, and TruTV. It also operates the online digital media outlets for the NCAA, NBA, PGA Tour, and PGA of America. TNT Sports also operates the sports news website Bleacher Report, as well as NBA TV on behalf of the NBA. It also owns a minority share in the MLB Network. Internationally, the division is branded as Warner Bros. Discovery Sports Europe, which operates Eurosport. Following a rebrand in 2023, Warner Bros. Discovery is set to rebrand the international division as TNT Sports International, making both divisions known as TNT Sports.
Formerly | Turner Sports (1995–2022) Warner Bros. Discovery Sports (2022–2023) |
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Company type | Division |
Industry | Broadcasting |
Genre | Sports |
Predecessor | Discovery Sports (2001–2022) |
Founded | 1995 |
Headquarters | Atlanta, Georgia |
Key people | Luis Silberwasser (Chairman, WBD Sports) Andrew Georgiou (President, WBD Sports Europe) |
Brands | TNT Sports (with BT Group) Eurosport |
Services | |
Parent | Warner Bros. Discovery |
Subsidiaries | Warner Bros. Discovery Sports Europe |
Website | press (United States) discoverysports (Europe) |
Turner also owned WPCH-TV, the former WTBS, which was the longtime television home for Major League Baseball's Atlanta Braves. This relationship ended after the 2013 season. WPCH-TV was itself sold to Meredith Corporation in 2017 (which operated the station under a local marketing agreement since 2011 with CBS affiliate WGCL-TV), then to Gray Television in 2021.
Following AT&T's acquisition of Time Warner in 2018, it was announced in March 2019 that the Turner Broadcasting System would be dissolved, and its assets dispersed into Warner Bros. and two new units. Turner Sports was combined with CNN and AT&T SportsNet into a new division known as WarnerMedia News & Sports, led by CNN president Jeff Zucker. In October 2020, Turner Sports announced a partnership with DraftKings to be the exclusive provider of daily fantasy and sports betting information for most Turner Sports and Bleacher Report properties, excluding the NBA due to its league-wide deal with competitor FanDuel.
Beginning in fall 2023, the division was rebranded to TNT Sports.