TNT Sports is the brand name for sports television channels, broadcast divisions, programming, and other media around the world that are owned and operated by

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(WBD). The name originates from the American cable television channel

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. The brand was first used in the 1980s when then-owner

Turner Broadcasting System Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. was an American television and media conglomerate founded by Ted Turner in 1965. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, it merged with Time Warner (later WarnerMedia) on October 10, 1996. As of April 2022, all of its asse ...

initially used separate TNT Sports and TBS Sports brands for its separate American channels TNT and TBS, respectively, before introducing a unified

Turner Sports TNT Sports is the division of Warner Bros. Discovery in the United States that is responsible for Sports broadcasting, sports broadcasts on its parent company's streaming service, Max (streaming service), Max, and primarily the TruTV, TBS (Americ ...

brand in 1995. Turner Broadcasting merged into Time Warner in 1996, which in turn was acquired by

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in 2018 (which would become

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). Turner Sports was then put into a new division known as WarnerMedia News & Sports. In 2017, the company launched the TNT Sports channel in Argentina, then standardized the rest of its existing Latin American sports channels into the TNT Sports brand in 2021. In 2022, WBD was formed with the

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of WarnerMedia by AT&T, and its merger with

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Turner Sports was then renamed as Warner Bros. Discovery Sports after its merger with the sports divisions for WarnerMedia and Discovery, with the brand also being used for the division managing Discovery's existing European and international sports assets such as

Eurosport Eurosport is a group of pay television networks in Europe and parts of Asia, owned and operated by Warner Bros. Discovery through its WBD Sports unit, it operates two main channels—Eurosport 1 and Eurosport 2—across most of its territorie ...

Golf Digest ''Golf Digest'' is a monthly golf magazine published by Warner Bros. Discovery through its TNT Sports unit. It is a generalist golf publication covering recreational golf and men's and women's competitive golf. The magazine started by John F. ...

, and

Global Cycling Network Global Cycling Network (GCN) is a cycling-related YouTube channel which was launched in the United Kingdom in 2013. The channel's parent company, Play Sports Network, became a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery through its TNT Sports unit in 20 ...

. In 2024, WBD officially rebranded the entirety of the division as TNT Sports in the US whil
WBD Sports
still exists in Europe.

Channels and divisions

* TNT Sports (Argentine TV channel), the sports channel in Argentina. * TNT Sports (Brazil), the sports broadcast division for WBD's channels and networks in Brazil. ** Estádio TNT Sports * TNT Sports (Chilean TV channel), the sports channel in Chile. ** TNT Sports HD ** TNT Sports 2 ** TNT Sports 3 ** Estadio TNT Sports * TNT Sports (Mexico), the sports channel in Mexico. *

TNT Sports (United Kingdom) TNT Sports (formerly BT Sport) is a group of pay television sports channels in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Now owned by Warner Bros. Discovery and BT Group, they first launched as BT Sport on 1 August 2013. The channels are based at Warner ...

, 50% with

BT Group BT Group plc (formerly British Telecom) is a British Multinational corporation, multinational telecommunications holding company headquartered in London, England. It has operations in around 180 countries and is the largest provider of fixed-li ...

** TNT Sports 1 ** TNT Sports 2 ** TNT Sports 3 **

TNT Sports 4 TNT Sports 4 is a British sports television channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery Sports and the BT Group. It is part of the TNT Sports group of channels in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The channel was established by ESPN Inc. on August 3 ...

TNT Sports (United States) TNT Sports is the division of Warner Bros. Discovery in the United States that is responsible for sports broadcasts on its parent company's streaming service, Max, and primarily the TruTV, TBS, and TNT cable channels. The division also operat ...

- The sports broadcast division for WBD's channels and networks in the United States, including its original namesake, the cable channel TNT.

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* {{Warner Bros. Discovery * Warner Bros. Discovery subsidiaries Sports divisions of TV channels Mass media companies established in 1973 Mass media companies established in 1995

Channels and divisions

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