The Turner properties, together with TNT and TBS, have been handed alongside in a carousel of offers for greater than 1 / 4 of a century. Each time has introduced job losses.
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When Millie de Chirico graduated from Georgia State University, she stepped proper into what was then the gold commonplace of working in tv in Atlanta: Turner Broadcasting System.
It was 2004, and de Chirico was employed because the assistant to the programming division at Turner Classic Movies. It was the right job for her, she stated, and she or he immersed her in a tradition that inspired creativity and experimentation.
For practically twenty years, de Chirico had the identical boss and the identical co-workers as she labored her method to changing into the chief programmer and host of TCM Underground, the community’s late-night film franchise. But Turner itself was altering, a casualty of structural shifts occurring throughout the leisure business. The networks had been swept into mergers with two other corporations throughout de Chirico’s tenure to deal with the financial pressures.
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The NCS Presidential Debate “game day,” environment is proven at the NCS-Techwood campus, Wednesday, June 26, 2024, in Atlanta. NCS was host to the Presidential Debate between then-former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden, Thursday night time, June 27, 2024. (Jason Getz / AJC)
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Ted Turner at NCS’s launch June 1, 1980. (Joe Benton/AJC)
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Jaime Rosegren, a enterprise consultant for the Georgia crew union IATSE Local 479, stated 2,000 of its 5,400 members are in arrears when it comes to dues due to lack of labor. She spoke at a gathering June 16, 2026 sponsored by the American Economic Liberties Project and held at the Plaza Theatre to speak in regards to the pending Paramount/WBD merger. (Rodney Ho/AJC)
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Savannah Sicurella is an leisure enterprise reporter with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.