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misterboo72today at 4:17 PM2 repliesview on HN

As a film fan I remember all of the outrage over his plan to colorize classic films. He was also a critic of the film "Taxi Driver" and complained about the film's values.

He was everywhere in the late 70s and early 80s. WTCG -- The Super Station.


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schlauerfoxtoday at 4:56 PM

Can't find the source but the quote I heard attributed to Orson Welles to Turner wanting to colorize the purposefully black-and-white Citizen Kane was "Tell Ted Turner to keep his goddamn crayolas off my movies"

5555624today at 6:18 PM

By 1980, WTCG had become "WTBS" and then "TBS SuperStation" and simply "TBS"