, usually referred to as '''TNT''', is a
Cable TV network created by media mogul
Ted Turner and launched with a showing of his favorite film, ''
Gone With The Wind '', on
October 3 ,
1988 . TNT airs
National Basketball Association games as ''
The NBA On TNT '',
NASCAR , and reruns of popular network television shows from the past. TNT was also the home of ''
WCW Monday Nitro '', the flagship show of the now defunct
World Championship Wrestling , once regularly the highest
Rated weekly program on cable.
In
June 12 ,
2001 TNT relaunched itself, with a new logo and tagline, ''"We Know Drama."'' It now focuses on sports and high-action movies with lots of drama and energy, and the "Primetime in the Daytime" weekday lineup featuring reruns of network TV dramas such as ''
Law & Order '' (which it also airs almost nightly), ''
Charmed '', ''
NYPD Blue '', ''
ER '', and ''
Judging Amy ''. It is in direct contrast to sister network
TBS , which shows more comedy related programming. In Latin America, the TNT logo relaunched in
2003 . As of now, TNT ditched the yellow in their logo, and the yellow was replaced by Blue.
,
2001 and in Latin America until
July 1 ,
2003 ]]
A
British version of TNT was launched in the
1990s (called TNT Classic Movies) but was exclusively dedicated to movies, mainly from the
MGM and
Warner Brothers archives. At the time the channel was combined with
Cartoon Network Europe into a channel called
TNT & Cartoon Network . It was later renamed
TCM (Turner Classic Movies), presumably to coincide with the launch of the U.S. channel. TNT continued to run in the UK, consisting of shows, newer movies, music and sports but closed in mid-
2000 .
Similarly, a channel branded TNT also existed in Australia during the
1990s . As with the UK version, it was essentially TCM. The use of the name caused some confusion as it is also the name of a major logistics company.
In
2004 , TNT became the first
Turner Network to begin broadcasting in
High Definition .
