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- BUSINESS, Page 73Business NotesENTERTAINMENTYabba-Dabba Deal!
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- Even his detractors will now be forced to admit it: Ted
- Turner is smarter than the average bear. The Atlanta-based media
- mogul already owns the intrepid cable news network CNN, TNT, a
- planet-wide TV empire and the MGM film library, with its 2,200
- movies, including such crowd-pleasing classics as Citizen Kane,
- Casablanca and Gone With the Wind. Last week his Turner
- Broadcasting System announced the acquisition of a new mother
- lode of small-screen gems: Hanna-Barbera Productions, creators
- of the animated adventures of the prehistoric Flintstones, the
- futuristic Jetsons and the Great American Mammal, Yogi Bear.
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- TBS and partner Apollo Investment Fund shelled out $320
- million for the studio -- and perhaps more important, its 3,000
- half-hours of cartoon programming. Going back to the 1950s, the
- treasure trove could form the basis of a long-standing Turner
- dream: a worldwide all-cartoon channel.
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