Time Warner Inc. summary

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Time Warner Inc., Largest media and entertainment conglomerate in the world. Its products encompass magazines, including Time, Sports Illustrated, and People; hardcover books; comic books; recorded music; motion pictures; online services; and broadcast and cable television programming and distribution, such as the networks HBO, CNN, and TBS. In 2001 Time Warner and the Internet company America Online (later called AOL) merged to form AOL Time Warner. The new company experienced huge losses, and in 2003 AOL was dropped from its name. Six years later Time Warner formally split with AOL. See also Warner Bros.

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Warner Brothers Studio lot, Burbank, California

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