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A tale of Time and Warner

The corporate history of Time Inc., its merger with Warner Communications to form Time Warner, and many other things

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Halina Bennet
Dec 15, 2025
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Warner Bros. Discovery is the latest name attached to a century-long accumulation of media assets shaped by shifting technology, regulation, and capital markets. (Photo by Cheng Xin)

In his post this morning, Matt alluded in a footnote to “a whole larger corporate history here … but we can only go back so far.”

Here’s where I take you back farther.

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