Turner Home Entertainment: Difference between revisions

Turner Home Entertainment, Inc. was founded on July 29, 1986 by Ted Turner's Turner Broadcasting System to distribute the [[RKO Pictures|RKO Radio Pictures]] library on videocassette and, from 1987 to 1999, license the pre-1986 [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios|MGM]] and pre-1950 [[Warner Bros. Pictures|Warner Bros.]] libraries to [[MGM Home Entertainment|MGM/UA Home Video]]. In 1994, when Turner bought out the [[New Line Cinema]] and [[Castle Rock Entertainment]] studios, [[Sony Pictures Home Entertainment|Columbia TriStar Home Video]] sold the distribution rights of [[New Line Home Entertainment|New Line Home Video]] releases to Turner Home Entertainment. Turner Home Entertainment also handled the rights to shows by [[Hanna-Barbera Cartoons|Hanna-Barbera]] and [[Cartoon Network]], as well as [[PBS Distribution|PBS Home Video]] releases from 1994-1997. In 1997, a year after Turner merged with Time Warner, Turner Home Entertainment was dissolved into [[Warner Bros. Home Entertainment|Warner Home Video]], although it remained in a limited fashion until 1999.