Turner Network Seeks Arrangement to Air 5 Games a Week
The Turner Broadcasting System expects to reach agreement within a month to broadcast five major league games per week on Turner Network Television, The Atlanta Constitution reported.
TNT, started by Ted Turner last month, reaches 18 million cable television homes and hopes to reach 50 million by 1990. Turner Broadcasting System now broadcasts Atlanta Braves games on its cable-transmitted Superstation TBS.
Ted Turner, who has controlling interest in Turner Broadcasting, owns the Braves.
The package would pay baseball about $120 million a year in either a 3-year or a 5-year package, the newspaper reported.
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