Joe Rogan Experience #2532 - Tim Robbins · Aired Jul 29, 2026
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Ted Turner, while running Warner Brothers, sold the broadcast rights to The Shawshank Redemption to himself at the lowest possible cost.
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The framing is off. Ted Turner never ran Warner Bros, he ran Turner Broadcasting System, and it was that company's 1993 purchase of Castle Rock Entertainment that let his network TNT air The Shawshank Redemption cheaply. Warner Bros didn't get the film's rights until Time Warner and Turner Broadcasting merged three years later, in 1996.
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Is it true that Ted Turner, while running Warner Brothers, sold the broadcast rights to The Shawshank Redemption to himself at the lowest possible cost?
Partly. The claim stretches what the evidence shows. The framing is off. Ted Turner never ran Warner Bros, he ran Turner Broadcasting System, and it was that company's 1993 purchase of Castle Rock Entertainment that let his network TNT air The Shawshank Redemption cheaply. Tim Robbins said it (matched by voice) on Joe Rogan Experience #2532 - Tim Robbins, aired Jul 29, 2026, at 1:22:24. The supporting source is en.wikipedia.org, linked below.
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