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UPDATED at 4PM PT: A lawyer for Dish Network’s decision to furnish Warren Schlichting, group president of Sling TV, with transcripts from last Thursday’s proceedings earned a rebuke from the judge, a long delay to the exec’s testimony and a 90-minute blast of white noise via the courtroom PA system. Turner…

Turner Networks CEO John Martin offered an unvarnished appraisal of the Justice Department’s lawsuit seeking to block the merger of AT&T and Time Warner: “I think the government is clueless.” Martin used the platform of the Code Media stage in Huntington Beach to shoot holes in the Trump administration’s rationale for…

In addition to introducing new shows and schedules, Turner used its upfront presentation this morning to pitch advertisers on its ad-targeting data, opportunities to blend commercial messages with news and entertainment and efforts to cut commercial clutter. Following its decision last year to cut ad loads on channels…

Time Warner’s Turner Broadcasting is about to accelerate the effort by traditional media companies to offer subscription streaming services for their content. “Before the end of this year we’ll have at least a couple of direct-to-consumer products in the marketplace,” Turner CEO John Martin said today at a luncheon…

Today I’ll be tracking today's Time Warner Investor Day gathering in New York — the first one it has held since 2010. It's important: Investors have seen the value of their shares melt by 18.5% since mid-July to $70.64 yesterday. Shareholders became excited after word got out that Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox…

Turner’s “2020” plan moves  forward. CEO John Martin told staffers today that the company will unveil details of a new corporate structure “in the next two months.” In today’s memo, Martin said the company would “start 2015 a more streamlined, nimble and efficient company focused on driving programming, monetization…

Five months into his stint as CEO of Turner Broadcasting System, John Martin is focusing on maximizing performance and trimming fat. In a company memo sent out today (read it below), Martin outlines a global initiative called Turner 2020. It will feature a systematic assessment of every part of the company, focusing…