On November 3, 1997 I began working at TBS.
I was hired to work for the in-house production facility known simply as "Turner Production", later named "Turner Studios." I remember at the time getting a lot of advice from peers to not take the job. Turner was viewed as a backwater of production. A place to start your career, not the place to get ahead. I've seen the picutres and videos that support that viewpoint and if you've seen "WKRP in Cincinnati" you'll get some idea of what Turner was like in the early days.
Well a few years after I started, Turner built the Southeast's largest production studio, a $50 million full service facility. And most of those people that told me not to come here are now my co-workers.
