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| name               = Warner Communications, Inc.
| logo               = Warner Communications.svg
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| industry           = [[Entertainment]]
| fate               = Merged with [[Time Inc.]]
| predecessor        = [[Kinney National Company]]
| successor          = Time Warner (now [[WarnerMedia]])<br>[[AT&T]]
| foundation         = {{Start date and age|1972}}
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| defunct            = {{End date and age|1990|1|10}}
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| location_city      = [[New York City]], [[New York (state)|New York]]
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| key_people         = [[Steve Ross (businessman)|Steve Ross]] ([[Chief executive officer|CEO]])
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| divisions          = [[Warner Bros.|Warner Bros. Inc.]]<br>[[DC Comics]]<br>[[Lorimar Television]]
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| location_country   = [[United States]]
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'''Warner Communications, Inc.''' was an [[United States|American]] entertainment company established in 1972 from the entertainment assets of [[Kinney National Company]], which were spun off due to a financial scandal over its parking operations<ref>{{cite web |url=http://analysesoffinance.blogspot.be/2011/10/list-of-corporate-scandals.html |title= List of corporate scandals |publisher=Financial Analyses|date=4 October 2011|accessdate=30 August 2015}}</ref> (as [[National Kinney Corporation]]) and changed its name.

==History==
It was the parent company for [[Warner Bros.|Warner Bros. Pictures]], [[Warner Music Group]] and, though [[Warner Cable]], [[Dimension Pictures (1970s company)|Dimension Pictures]]. It also owned [[DC Comics]] and [[Mad (magazine)|''Mad'' magazine]]. Warner made (and later lost) considerable profits with [[Atari, Inc.]], which it owned from 1976 to 1984.

In 1979, Warner formed a joint venture with credit card company [[American Express]], [[Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment]], which owned such cable channels as [[MTV]], [[Nickelodeon]], and [[The Movie Channel]]. Warner bought out American Express's half in 1984, and sold the venture a year later to [[Viacom]], which renamed it [[Viacom Media Networks|MTV Networks]] (now known as Viacom Media Networks).

In 1982, Warner purchased [[Popular Library]] from [[CBS Publications]].<ref>{{cite web | title=Copyrights of Golden-Age Comics | url=http://www.herogoggles.com/copyright1.html|work=Golden-Age Comic book Superheroes & Villains Encyclopedia | accessdate=20 September 2011}}</ref>

In 1987, it was announced that Warner Communications and [[Time Inc.]] were to merge, although it took two years for the merger to take place. The merged company, Time Warner, was acquired by [[AT&T]] in 2018 and renamed [[WarnerMedia]].

The Warner Communications name was still credited on releases from [[Elektra Records]] and its sister labels until 2004. [[Warner Music Group]] continues to use the "Big W" logo, designed by [[Saul Bass]] in 1972.

==See also==
* [[Kinney National Company]]
* [[Kinney Parking Company]]
* [[National Kinney Corporation]]
* [[Warner Bros.-Seven Arts]]

==References==
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