TBS (United States)

TBS (originally an abbreviation for Turner Broadcasting System) is an American pay television channel owned by Turner Networks, a subsidiary of. It carries a wide variety of programming, most of which is focused on comedy, along with some sports events. As of April 2022, TBS is received by approximately 90.4 million households that subscribe to a pay television service throughout the United States.

TBS was originally established on December 10, 1977, as the national feed of Turner's -based, independent television station,. The decision to begin offering WTCG via satellite transmission to cable and satellite subscribers throughout the United States expanded the small station into the first nationally distributed "superstation". With the assignment of WTBS as the broadcast station's call letters in 1978, the national feed became known as SuperStation WTBS, and later SuperStation TBS and TBS SuperStation, finally being renamed TBS in 1993. The channel broadcast a variety of programming during this era, including films, syndicated series, and sports.

WTBS maintained the same program schedule as the cable channel, aside from -mandated public affairs and educational programming that only aired on the local station. By the late 1990s, TBS had begun to focus more intensively on comedic programming, including both live-action and animated sitcoms. On January 12, 1996, TBS was converted into a conventional basic cable channel, at which time it began to be carried within the Atlanta market on cable providers alongside its existing local carriage on and. The former parent station in Atlanta was concurrently relaunched as WPCH-TV (branded as "Peachtree TV") and sold to in 2017, which would sell it to  in 2021 and reformatted as a traditional independent station with a separate schedule catering exclusively to the Atlanta market.