Home Video
- As previously mentioned, Turner Home Entertainment (THE) released most of the Turner catalog on video;
- THE also released World Championship Wrestling pay-per-view events, wrestler profiles, and "Best Of" packages on video until the demise of WCW in 2001; the WCW video library, along with WCW itself, were sold to the World Wrestling Federation (now known as WWE) in March 2001.
- THE distributed home video releases from New Line Home Entertainment, as well as PBS programs in the mid-1990s. NLHE distributed New Line films on video by itself from 1996 until the Warner Bros./New Line merger in 2008. PBS shows are now distributed on video by Paramount;
- THE also distributed films produced by Turner Pictures on video;
- THE distributed the initial video release of an animated film The Swan Princess, which is merely distributed by New Line Cinema;
- Some films released on VHS by Turner Home Entertainment are distributed in the UK by First Independent Films
- Contractually, the MGM and Warner film libraries which Turner owned had been distributed by MGM/UA Home Video until their rights expired in 1999 at which point they were reassigned to Warner Home Video. This transaction also completed WB's re-acquiring of distribution rights to their pre-1950 library;
- In 1994, THE entered a distribution deal with Columbia TriStar Home Video in the UK. The deal expired in 1997;
- It was absorbed into Warner Home Video as an in-name-only unit after Time Warner bought Turner;
- Turner Classic Movies releases special edition DVD boxsets of films from both the Turner and Warner catalogs under the TCM label. They are also a former affiliate of Movies Unlimited, a Philadelphia based mail order DVD and video company.
- THE also released some Hanna-Barbera tapes in the mid-1990's.
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