Time Warner was first founded in January 1990 as a result of the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications. The company's original identity was created by Chermayeff & Geismar, and included an eye-ear logo designed by Steff Geissbuhler (which was adopted for Time Warner Cable).
1990-1992 byline.
1992-2001 Time Warner Entertainment byline.
1993-2001[]
In April 1993, Time Warner's eye-ear logo was replaced by a more reserved and traditional serif-based wordmark created by Anspach Grossman Portugal.
In early 2000, Time Warner and America Online (AOL) announced that they would merge to become AOL Time Warner, and the merge was finalized in January 2001. Landor Associates was responsible for designing their new logo, which retained the last one's horizontal lines, but added the word "AOL" next to "TIME WARNER", which had been re-rendered as "Time Warner". Also, the wordmark was colored blue, and the lines were recolored in a pale shade of blue.
Time Warner (second era)[]
2003-2018[]
Starting in November 2002, AOL Time Warner alternated with its Time Warner and AOL Time Warner names, until October 2003, when the company's name was officially and legally reverted back to Time Warner. Lippincott Mercer was hired to created the company's new corporate identity[3]. On a side note, their new logo dropped the two horizontal lines above and below the wordmark, whose font was changed from Times New Roman to Bodoni Bold and was rendered as "TimeWarner". Its color is the only aspect that remains unchanged, as it retains the blue color from the AOL Time Warner logo.
This logo later began to be used within various of its subsidiaries' logo bylines (specifically Warner Bros. Pictures, New Line Cinema, Castle Rock Entertainment, Warner Animation Group, and Cartoon Network Studios, among others), with the words "A" and "Company" in the FF Meta typeface (with some exceptions, such as that of Cartoon Network Productions and Turner Broadcasting System since 2015). Since August 2016, there is another variant of its byline in which the two words mentioned on a last sentence are smaller and has a different font, with a Time Warner logo being larger than the others and the only one that retains its font.
"The new logo signals this is not the same company it was as the old Time Warner. We wanted it to be forward looking without coming up with some logo that had symbols or fireworks shooting out of it." –Time Warner Senior Vice President Edward Adler, October 2003
* Identityworks
On October 22, 2016, AT&T announced its intent to acquire Time Warner for $85 billion.[4]
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This slightly different version, intended for larger sizes (though not always used there), is also used by the company.
Film production: Warner Bros. Pictures (Others | Trailer variants | Closing variants | Logo Variations) | Warner Animation Group (Others | Trailer variants) | New Line Cinema (Others | Trailer variants | Closing variants) | Castle Rock Entertainment (Others) | HBO Films | HBO Documentary Films
Television production: Warner Bros. Television (Warner Horizon Television | Others) | Warner Bros. Animation | Alloy Entertainment | Warner Bros. Television Distribution | Warner Bros. International Television | Telepictures (Others) | The Wolper Organization | Toonzai | Hanna-Barbera (Others) | HBO Entertainment | HBO Enterprises | HBO Kids | Eyeworks
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group (Others): HBO Home Entertainment (Others) | Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment | Warner Bros. Games | Monolith Productions | Cartoon Network Games | Traveller's Tales (Others) | HBO Interactive Entertainment | Snowblind Studios | Rocksteady Studios | Turbine | NetherRealm Studios | Avalanche Software
Broadcast television: The CW4
HBO:
U.S. channels: HBO (HD | Go | OD | Now) | HBO 2 (HD) | HBO Comedy | HBO Family | HBO Latino | HBO Signature | HBO Zone Cinemax (HD | Go) | MoreMax | 5StarMax | ActionMax | Cinemáx | MovieMax | OuterMax | ThrillerMax
International channels: HBO (HD) | HBO 2 (HD) | HBO 3 (HD) | Cinemax (HD) | HBO Asia | Cinemax Asia | Cinemax 2 (HD) | HBO Europe | HBO Latin America Group (HBO | HBO 2 | HBO Family | HBO Signature | HBO Plus | Max | Max Prime | Max Up) | Cinemax (LA) | A+E Networks (LA)7
Turner Broadcasting System:
U.S networks and companies: Adult Swim | Adult Swim Video | Boomerang | Cartoon Network (HD) | Cartoon Network Studios (Others) | Cartoon Network Productions (Others) | Cartoon Network Books | CNN | CNN Airport | HLN | NBA TV | Turner Classic Movies | TCM Classic Film Festival | TBS | TNT | Toonami | truTV International channels: Boing | Boomerang Europe | Boomerang Southeast Asia | Cartoonito | CNN International | CNN Türk | Imagine TV | TCM Europe | Chilevisión | Warner | CNN Chile | CNN en Español | CNN-News 18 | CNN Indonesia6 | CNN Philippines5 | Boomerang Latin America | Tooncast | Esporte Interativo | TNT Sports | TNT Latin America | I-Sat | HTV | TCM Latin America | Much Music Latin America | TBS Latin America | TruTV Latin America | Space Latin America | TNT Series | QTV | TABI Channel | Mondo TV | WarnerTV | WB Channel
Cartoon Network: Arabic | Australia | Canada | Europe | France | Germany | Greece | Hungary | India | Italy | Japan | Latin America | Nordic | Pakistan | Philippines | Poland | Portugal | Russia and CIS | Southeast Asia | Taiwan | Turkey | UK & Ireland
Other assets: Turner Entertainment | Bleacher Report | Turner Sports
Other: TMZ.com | Fandango (30%) (Flixster | Rotten Tomatoes) | Machinima | Momlogic | WaterTower Music | Warner Bros. Movie World1 | Warner Village Cinemas1 | Warner Bros. Digital Distribution | Warner Bros. Studios | Warner Bros. Online | Hulu9 (10%) | WB Movies All Access | Movies Anywhere
Defunct/Dissolved: Brut Productions | The Burbank Studios3 | Cartoon Network Too | Cartoon Network Spain | Castle Rock Entertainment Television | Charter Entertainment | CNN+ | Geffen Pictures (Others) | Geffen Television | Fine Line Features | Hanna-Barbera Home Video | Hanna-Barbera Poland | Hanna-Barbera Australia | HBO/Cannon Video | HBO Savoy Video | HBO Independent Productions | HBO Downtown Productions | HBO NYC Productions | HLN HD | Infinifilm | Kideo Video | Lorimar Television (Others) | Lorimar-Telepictures (Others) | Lorimar Film Entertainment | Lorimar Records | Lorimar Home Video | Nelson Entertainment | New Line Home Entertainment | New Line Television | New Line Television Distribution | New Line Television Pay Per View | Rankin/Bass Productions | Raw Feed | Roadshow-Lorimar Home Video1 | Scholastic-Lorimar Home Video8 | Seven Arts Associated Corporation | Seven Arts Television | Silver Screen Partners | Super Deluxe | TCM 2 | Ted Turner Pictures | Telepictures Distribution | Thorn EMI/HBO Video | Time-Telepictures Television | TNT (Africa) | Toonami (UK & Ireland) | Turner Home Entertainment | Turner Program Services | Upwave | Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment Company2 | Warner Books | Warner Bros. Television Animation | Warner Bros. Italia | Warner Communications | Warner Bros. Family Entertainment | Warner Independent Pictures | Warner-Nest Animation | Warner Premiere | Warner Premiere Digital | The WB
1Co-owned by Village Roadshow. 2Assets owned by ViacomCBS. 3Was co-owned with Columbia Pictures. 4Joint Venture with Nine Media Corporation. 5Joint Venture with Trans Media. 6HBO Latin America Group has distribution to networks owned by a joint venture of A&E Networks and Ole Communications. 7Co-owned by Scholastic. 8Will take 10% of Hulu.
Film production and distribution: Warner Bros. Pictures (Others | Trailer variants | Closing variants | International | Logo Variations) | Warner Animation Group (Others | Trailer variants) | Warner Bros. Animation (Others | Warner Bros. Classic Animation) | New Line Cinema (Others | Trailer variants | Closing variants)
Television production and distribution: Warner Bros. Television (Warner Horizon Television | Studio 2.0 | Others) | Warner Bros. Television Animation | Alloy Entertainment | Warner Bros. Television Distribution (Others) | Warner Bros. International Television | Telepictures (Others) | Cartoon Network Studios | Eyeworks
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group: Warner Home Video (Others) | HBO Home Entertainment | Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment | Warner Bros. Games (Others | Trailer variants) Monolith Productions | Cartoon Network Games | Traveller's Tales | Snowblind Studios | Rocksteady Studios | Turbine | NetherRealm Studios
DC Entertainment: DC Comics (Others | Logo Variations) | Vertigo (Others) | DC Collectibles | Mad | DC All Access
Broadcast television: The CW3 (HD)
International channels: Warner Channel | WarnerTV | WB Channel
Other: The WB | TMZ.com | Fandango (30%) (Flixster | Rotten Tomatoes) | Machinima | Momlogic | WaterTower Music | Warner Bros. Movie World1 | Warner Village Cinemas1 | Warner Bros. Digital Distribution | Warner Bros. Studios | Warner Bros. Online
Dissolved: Warner Bros. Licensing | Raw Feed | Lorimar Television | Lorimar-Telepictures | Lorimar Motion Pictures | Lorimar Records | Lorimar Home Video | Roadshow-Lorimar Home Video1 | Scholastic-Lorimar Home Video7 | Kideo Video | Telepictures Distribution | Time-Telepictures Television | Geffen Pictures | Geffen Television | New Line Home Entertainment | Infinifilm | New Line Television | New Line Television Pay Per View | Fine Line Features | Warner Independent Pictures | Hanna-Barbera Home Video | Hanna-Barbera Poland | Hanna-Barbera Australia | Cartoon Cartoons | Cartoon Network Too | Cartoon Network Spain | CN Real | Summer @ Seven | Super Deluxe | Har Har Tharsdays | New @ 7 | CNN+ | TCM 2 | Upwave | Warner Bros. Italia | Thorn EMI/HBO Video | HBO/Cannon Video | HBO Savoy Video | HBO Independent Productions | HBO Downtown Productions | HBO NYC Productions | Nelson Entertainment | Charter Entertainment | Rankin/Bass Productions | Brut Productions | Castle Rock Entertainment Television | Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment Company2 | Warner Bros. Family Entertainment | Ted Turner Pictures | Turner Home Entertainment
Adult Swim | Adult Swim Video | Boomerang | Cartoon Network (HD) | CNN | CNN Airport | HLN | NBA TV | Turner Classic Movies (HD) | TBS (HD) | TNT (HD) | Toonami | truTV
International Channels Cartoonito | Warner | I-Sat | HTV | MuchMusic | TBS Latin America | TruTV | Glitz* | Tooncast | Space | Esporte Interativo BR | Chilevisión | QTV | TABI Channel | Mondo TV | WarnerTV | WB Channel | Pogo
TNT Latin America | TNT Series | TNT Sports | Europe | Romania | Nordic | Africa | UK and Ireland
Boomerang: International | Australia | Brazil | Latin America | Russia | Southeast Asia | South Korea | Thailand | New Zealand | UK and Ireland | Asia | Greece
Boing: Africa | France | Italy | Spain
CNN: CNN International | CNN Türk | Imagine TV | CNN Chile | CNN en Español | CNN-News 18 | CNN Indonesia2 | CNN Philippines1
Cartoon Network: Australia | Brazil | Canada | Czech Republic | France | Germany | Greece | Hungary | India | Japan | Latin America | Middle East & Africa | Middle East (English | Arabic | Hindi) | Pakistan | Philippines | Poland | Portugal | Romania | Russia | Southeast Asia | South Korea | Sweden | Taiwan | Turkey | UK and Ireland | New Zealand | China
Toonami: Asia | France
Turner Classic Movies: UK and Ireland | Spain | France (HD) | Latin America | Nordic | Middle East | Africa
Television production Turner Entertainment | Bleacher Report | Turner Sports | Super Deluxe | TBS Productions | TNT Productions | Hanna-Barbera | Cartoon Network Productions (Others) | Cartoon Network Studios (Others) | Cartoon Network Studios Europe | Studio T
Film production Turner Entertainment | Cartoon Network Movies | CNN Films
Publishing Cartoon Network Books
Defunct Cartoon Network Too | Cartoon Network (Spain) | CNN+ | TCM 2 | Upwave | Turner Program Services | HLN HD | Nuts TV
1Co-owned with Nine Media Corporation and Radio Philippines Network. 2Joint venture with Trans Media.
Mobile telecommunications: AT&T Mobility | AT&T Wireless Services | GoPhone
Television services: AT&T U-verse | DirecTV
Other properties: BellSouth | AT&T Digital Life | AT&T Originals
Precedessor companies: Bell Labs | Western Electric Export Corporation
Defunct: Advanced Mobile Phone Service | Aio Wireless | Ameritech | AT&T Broadband | Bell Atlantic | Bell Telephone Company | Cingular Wireless | Illinois Bell | Lucent | NYNEX | Pacific Bell | Pacific Telesis | Southwestern Bell Corporation | US West