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You jest but at one point it was not entirely impossible
Time Warner was always much larger than TBS ever was, it would have been nigh impossible for such a thing to happen
Of course this wouldn't have stopped Ted from trying, he infamously did not care for TW management very much even before the 1996 TBS-TW merger; Time and Warner Communications acquired significant shares in TBS after the MGM merger, and when they combined in 1990 it gave them veto power on the Turner board, which they used to block practically every purchase TBS wanted to make (likely to ensure they would not become a serious competitor to them)
In a Press Club speech from 1993 or so Ted compared it to the genital mutilation done in Egypt
By the way Turner Broadcasting turned 55 this year and nobody has said anything about it