26-02-2023, 12:38 AM
(26-02-2023, 12:23 AM)mouseboy33 Wrote: TCM stands for Turner Classic Movies, it was launched when Ted Turner decide to monetize his massive movie collection in 1994, it was built around the 1.9 Billion acquisition of the MGM archive. Its strange they initially launched the classic movie channel under the TNT brand in the UK instead of the long time well established TCM brand....then eventually change it from TNT to TCM. TNT has been around as a general entertainment channel since 1998, but was in existence in some form since 1982 as Turner's syndication service for TBS (WTBS Atlanta)
I think pretty much everyone here knows what TCM stands for, haha. To answer your question, TCM didn't exist when TNT first launched here (which was in 1993). TNT did - so Turner obviously decided to use that name in Europe.