EXHIBIT 21 SUBSIDIARIES OF TIME WARNER INC. Set forth below are the names of certain subsidiaries, at least 50% owned, directly or indirectly, of Time Warner and TWE as of December 31, 1996, unless otherwise indicated. Certain subsidiaries which when considered in the aggregate would not constitute a significant subsidiary are omitted from the list below. Indented subsidiaries are direct subsidiaries of the company under which they are indented. PERCENTAGE STATE OR OTHER OWNED BY JURISDICTION OF IMMEDIATE INCORPORATION OR NAME PARENT ORGANIZATION - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- --------------------- TIME WARNER INC. (Registrant): Delaware Turner Broadcasting System, Inc............................................... 100 Georgia Turner Arena Productions and Sales, Inc.................................... 100 Georgia Atlanta Coliseum, Inc.................................................... 100 Georgia The Omni Promotions Management Company................................... 100 Georgia Seats, Inc............................................................... 100 Georgia Atlanta National League Baseball Club, Inc................................. 100 Georgia Hawks Basketball, Inc...................................................... 100 Georgia Atlanta Hawks, L.P....................................................... 100 Georgia Cable News Network, Inc.................................................... 100 Georgia Cable News International, Inc............................................ 100 Delaware CNN America, Inc......................................................... 100 Delaware CNN Germany, Inc......................................................... 100 Georgia CNN Newsource Sales, Inc................................................... 100 Georgia Castle Rock Entertainment Inc.............................................. 100 Georgia Castle Rock Entertainment................................................ 100(1) California Goodwill Games, Inc........................................................ 100 Georgia HB Holding Co.............................................................. 100 Delaware Hanna-Barbera Entertainment Co., Inc..................................... 100 California New Line Cinema Corporation................................................ 100 Delaware Turner Entertainment Group, Inc............................................ 100 Georgia Turner Entertainment Networks, Inc....................................... 100 Georgia Turner Entertainment Networks Asia, Inc............................... 100 Georgia Turner Network Television, Inc........................................ 100 Georgia Superstation, Inc................................................... 100 Georgia Turner Original Productions, Inc................................. 100 Georgia The Cartoon Network, Inc............................................ 100 Georgia Turner Classic Movies, Inc.......................................... 100 Georgia Turner Home Entertainment, Inc........................................ 100 Georgia Turner Learning, Inc................................................ 100 Georgia Turner Publishing, Inc.............................................. 100 Georgia Turner Retail Company............................................... 100 Georgia Turner Pictures Group, Inc................................................. 100 Georgia Turner Entertainment Co............................................. 100 Georgia H-B Distribution Co.............................................. 100 Georgia TBS Funding Corp........................................................... 100 Georgia Turner Broadcasting Sales, Inc............................................. 100 Georgia Turner Broadcasting System Asia Pacific, Inc............................... 100 Georgia Turner Home Satellite, Inc................................................. 100 Georgia 1 PERCENTAGE STATE OR OTHER OWNED BY JURISDICTION OF IMMEDIATE INCORPORATION OR NAME PARENT ORGANIZATION - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- --------------------- Turner Broadcasting System Limited......................................... 100 U.K. Turner International Advertising Sales Limited........................... 100 U.K. Turner International Network Sales Limited............................... 100 U.K. Turner International, Inc.................................................. 100 Georgia Turner Network Sales, Inc.................................................. 100 Georgia Turner Omni Venture, Inc................................................... 100 Georgia ICC Ventures, Inc.......................................................... 100 Georgia CNN Center Ventures...................................................... 100(2) Turner Private Networks, Inc............................................... 100 Georgia Turner Properties, Inc..................................................... 100 Georgia Turner Sports, Inc......................................................... 100 Georgia Turner Sports International Enterprises, Inc............................. 100 Georgia World Championship Wrestling, Inc.......................................... 100 Georgia Time Warner Companies, Inc.................................................... 100 Delaware Asiaweek Limited........................................................... 80 Hong Kong Sunset Publishing Corporation.............................................. 100 Delaware Time International Inc..................................................... 100 Delaware Time Inc.(3)............................................................... 100 Delaware American Family Enterprises (partnership)................................ 50 New York Book-of-the-Month Club, Inc.............................................. 100 New York Entertainment Weekly, Inc................................................ 100 Delaware Little, Brown and Company (Inc.)......................................... 100 Massachusetts Time Distribution Services, Inc.......................................... 100 Delaware Time Customer Serivce, Inc............................................... 100 Delaware Time Publishing Ventures, Inc............................................ 100 Delaware Southern Progress Corporation(4)...................................... 100 Delaware Time Inc. Ventures....................................................... 100 Delaware Health Publications, Inc.............................................. 100 Delaware Hippocrates Partners (partnership).................................. 50 California TWC Ventures............................................................. 100 Delaware Time Life Inc............................................................ 100 Delaware Time-Life Customer Service, Inc....................................... 100 Delaware Warner Books, Inc........................................................ 100 New York Warner Publisher Services Inc............................................ 100 New York Time TBS Holdings, Inc..................................................... 100 Delaware TW Service Holding I, L.P. (partnership)................................... (5) Delaware TW Service Holding II, L.P. (partnership).................................. (5) Delaware TW Programming Co. (partnership)......................................... (6) New York TW Cable Service Co. (partnership)....................................... (7) New York Time Warner Connect (partnership)........................................ (7) New York WCI Record Club Inc........................................................ 100(8) Delaware The Columbia House Company (partnership)................................. 50 New York Warner Communications Inc.................................................. 100 Delaware DC Comics (partnership).................................................. 50(9) New York Warner Bros. Music International Inc..................................... 100 Delaware Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp......................................... 100 California WB Music Corp............................................................ 100 California 2 PERCENTAGE STATE OR OTHER OWNED BY JURISDICTION OF IMMEDIATE INCORPORATION OR NAME PARENT ORGANIZATION - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- --------------------- W Cinemas Holding Inc.................................................... 100 Delaware W Cinemas Inc......................................................... 100 Delaware Alpha Theatres Inc.................................................... 100 Delaware NPP Music Corp........................................................... 100 Delaware Warner/Chappell Music, Inc............................................... 100 Delaware New Chappell Music, Inc(10)........................................... 100 Delaware Super Hype Publishing, Inc............................................ 100 New York Cotillion Music, Inc.................................................. 100 Delaware Walden Music, Inc..................................................... 100 New York Summy-Birchard, Inc................................................... 100 Wyoming Warner Bros. Publications U.S. Inc.................................... 100 New York CPP/Belwin, Inc....................................................... 100 Delaware Lorimar Motion Picture Management, Inc................................... 100 California E.C. Publications, Inc................................................... 100 New York WCI/Am Law Inc........................................................... 100 Delaware American Lawyer Media, L.P............................................ 83.25 Delaware Warner Music Group Inc................................................... 100 Delaware Warner Bros. Records Inc................................................. 100 Delaware Atlantic Recording Corporation........................................ 100 Delaware Warner-Elektra-Atlantic Corporation................................... 100 New York WEA International Inc.(11)............................................... 100 Delaware Warner Music Canada Ltd............................................... 100 Canada The Columbia House Company (Canada) (partnership)................... 50 Canada Warner Special Products Inc.............................................. 100 Delaware Warner Custom Music Corp.............................................. 100 California WEA Manufacturing Inc.................................................... 100 Delaware Allied Record Company................................................. 100 California Time Warner Limited...................................................... 100 U.K. Warner Music International Services Ltd............................... 100 U.K. Time Warner UK Limited.............................................. 100 U.K. Warner Chappell Music Group (UK) Ltd................................ 100 U.K. Warner Chappell Music Limited.................................... 100 U.K. Magnet Music Ltd............................................... 100 U.K. Warner Music (U.K.) Limited......................................... 100 U.K. Ivy Hill Corporation..................................................... 100 Delaware Warner Cable Communications Inc.......................................... 100 Delaware TWI Ventures Ltd......................................................... 100 Delaware American Television and Communications Corporation......................... 100(12) Delaware American Communications Corporation...................................... 100 Indiana American Digital Communications, Inc..................................... 100 Delaware ATC Holdings II, Inc..................................................... 100 Delaware ARP 113, Inc.......................................................... 100 Delaware Paragon Communications (partnership).................................. 50(13) Colorado ATC/PPV, Inc............................................................. 100 Delaware Carolina Network Corporation............................................. 100 Delaware Philadelphia Community Antenna Television Company........................ 100 Pennsylvania Lower Bucks Cablevision, Inc.......................................... 100 Pennsylvania Tri-County Cable Television Company................................... 100 New Jersey 3 PERCENTAGE STATE OR OTHER OWNED BY JURISDICTION OF IMMEDIATE INCORPORATION OR NAME PARENT ORGANIZATION - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- --------------------- Public Cable Company..................................................... 100 Maine Public Cable Company (partnership).................................... 77 Maine TWI Cable Inc.(14)......................................................... 100 Delaware TW/Kblcom Inc.(15)....................................................... 100 Delaware KBL Communications, Inc............................................... 100 Delaware Paragon Communications (partnership)................................ 50(13) Colorado Summit Communications Group, Inc......................................... 100 Delaware Summit Cable Inc...................................................... 100 Delaware Summit Cable Services of Georgia, Inc............................... 100 Delaware Summit Cable Services of Forsyth County, Inc........................ 100 Delaware Summit Cable Services of Thom-A-Lex, Inc............................ 100 Delaware Time Warner Operations Inc................................................. 100(16) Delaware HBO Film Management, Inc................................................. 100 Delaware TW/TAE Holding, Inc........................................................ 100 Delaware TW/TAE, Inc.............................................................. 100 Delaware SUBSIDIARIES OF TIME WARNER ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY, L.P. Time Warner Entertainment-Advance/Newhouse Partnership.......................... 66.67 New York CV of Viera Joint Venture (partnership)....................................... 50 Florida Time Warner Communications Holdings Inc.(17).................................... 100 Delaware Century Venture Corporation..................................................... 50 Delaware Erie Telecommunications, Inc.................................................... 54.19 Pennsylvania Kansas City Cable Partners...................................................... 50 Colorado Time Warner Cable New Zealand Holdings Ltd...................................... 100(18) New Zealand Queens Inner Unity Cable System................................................. 56.21 New York Comedy Partners, L.P. (partnership)............................................. 50 New York Warner Cable of Vermont Inc..................................................... 100 Delaware HBO Direct, Inc................................................................. 100 Delaware TWE Asia, Inc................................................................. 100 Delaware TW Buffer Inc................................................................. 100 Delaware Warner Bros. (F.E.) Inc.................................................... 100 Delaware Warner Bros. (Japan) Inc................................................... 100 Delaware Warner Bros. (South) Inc................................................... 100 Delaware Warner Bros. (Transatlantic) Inc........................................... 100 Delaware Bethel Productions Inc................................................... 100 Delaware Warner Films Consolidated Inc.............................................. 100 Delaware Exeter Distributing Inc.................................................. 100 Delaware Riverside Avenue Distributing Inc........................................ 100 Delaware HBO Asia Holdings, L.P. (partnership)........................................... 100(19) Delaware HBO Pacific Partners, C.V..................................................... 83.33 Neth. Antiles Home Box Office (Singapore) Pty. Ltd....................................... 100 Singapore Turner/HBO Ltd. Purpose Joint Venture (partnership)............................. 50 New York Acapulco 37 S.A. de C.V......................................................... 100 Mexico Warner Bros. Gesellschaft mbH................................................... 100 Austria Time Warner Entertainment Limited............................................... 100 U.K. The Bountiful Company Limited................................................. 50 U.K. Warner Bros. Studio Stores Ltd................................................ 100 U.K. Warner Bros. Consumer Products (UK) Ltd....................................... 100 U.K. 4 PERCENTAGE STATE OR OTHER OWNED BY JURISDICTION OF IMMEDIATE INCORPORATION OR NAME PARENT ORGANIZATION - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- --------------------- TWE Finance Limited........................................................... 100 U.K. Warner Bros. Theatres Ltd..................................................... 100 U.K. Warner Bros. Distributors Ltd................................................. 100 U.K. Lorimar Telepictures International Ltd..................................... 100 U.K. Warner Bros. International Television Distribution Italia S.p.A.......... 100 Italy Warner Bros. Theatres (U.K.) Limited.......................................... 100 U.K. Warner Bros. Theatres Advertising Agency Limited........................... 100 U.K. Warner Bros. Productions Limited.............................................. 100 U.K. Warner Home Video (U.K.) Limited.............................................. 100 U.K. Metro Color Laboratories (U.K.) Ltd............................................. 100 U.K. Kay Holdings Ltd.............................................................. 100 U.K. Metrocolor (London) Limited................................................ 100 U.K. Lorimar Distribution International (Canada) Corp................................ 100 Canada Lorimar Canada Inc.............................................................. 100 Canada Productions et Editions Cinematographiques Francaises SARL (PECF)............... 100 France Warner Home Video France S.A.................................................. 100 France Time Warner Entertainment Australia Pty. Ltd.................................... 100 Australia Lorimar Telepictures Pty. Limited............................................. 100 Australia Warner Bros. (Australia) Pty. Ltd............................................. 100 Australia Warner Holdings Australia Pty. Limited........................................ 100 Australia Warner Bros. Properties (Australia) Pty. Ltd............................... 100 Australia Warner Bros. Theatres (Australia) Pty. Limited............................. 100 Australia Warner World Australia Pty. Limited........................................ 100 Australia Movie World Enterprises Partnership (partnership)........................ 50 Australia Warner Home Video Pty. Limited............................................. 100 Australia Warner Bros. Video Pty. Ltd.............................................. 100 Australia Warner Sea World Aviation Pty. Ltd......................................... 100 Australia Sea World Aviation Partnership (partnership)............................. 50 Australia Warner Sea World Investments Pty. Limited.................................. 100 Australia Sari Lodge Pty. Limited.................................................. 50 Australia Sea World Management Pty. Ltd......................................... 100 Australia Warner Sea World Operations Pty. Ltd....................................... 100 Australia Sea World Enterprises Partnership (partnership).......................... 50 Australia Warner Sea World Units Pty. Ltd............................................ 100 Australia Time Warner Germany Holding GmbH................................................ 100(20) Germany Time Warner Entertainment Germany GmbH........................................ 100 Germany Time Warner Entertainment Germany GmbH and Co. OHG......................... 100(21) Germany Warner Bros. Movie World GmbH & Co. KG................................... 60 Germany Warner Bros. Deutschland Pay TV GmbH....................................... 100 Germany Warner Home Video GmbH..................................................... 100 Germany Warner Home Video Spol SRO............................................... 100 Czech Republic GWHS Grundstrucks Verwaltungs GmbH......................................... 100 Germany Warner Bros. Film GmbH..................................................... 100 Germany Warner Bros. Film GmbH Kinobetriebe...................................... 100 Germany Warner Bros. Film GmbH Multiplex Cinemas Mulheim......................... 100 Germany Time Warner Merchandising Canada Inc............................................ 100 Canada Warner Bros. Canada Inc......................................................... 100 Canada Warner Bros. Distributing (Canada) Limited...................................... 100 Canada 5 PERCENTAGE STATE OR OTHER OWNED BY JURISDICTION OF IMMEDIATE INCORPORATION OR NAME PARENT ORGANIZATION - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- --------------------- Warner Home Video (Canada) Ltd.................................................. 100 Canada Warner Bros. (Africa) (Pty) Ltd................................................. 100 So. Africa Warner Bros. Belgium SA/NV...................................................... 100 Belgium Warner Bros. (D) A/S............................................................ 100 Denmark Warner & Metronome Films A/S.................................................. 50 Denmark Warner Bros. Theatres Denmark A/S............................................. 100 Denmark Scala Biografome I/S (partnership)......................................... 50 Denmark Dagmar Teatret I/S (partnership)........................................... 50 Denmark Warner Bros. Film Ve Video Sanayi Ve Ticaret A.S................................ 100 Turkey Warner Bros. Finland OY......................................................... 100 Finland Warner Bros. (Holland) B.V...................................................... 100 Netherlands Warner Home Video (Nederland) B.V............................................. 100 Netherlands Warner Bros. Theatres (Holland) B.V........................................... 100 Netherlands Warner Bros. Holdings Sweden AB................................................. 100 Sweden Warner Bros. (Sweden) AB...................................................... 100 Sweden Warner Home Video (Sweden) AB................................................. 100 Sweden Warner Bros. Italia S.p.A....................................................... 100 Italy Warner Entertainment Italia S.r.L............................................. 100 Italy Warner Bros. (Korea) Inc........................................................ 100 Korea Warner Bros. (Mexico) S.A....................................................... 100 Mexico Warner Bros. (N.Z.) Limited..................................................... 100 New Zealand Warner Home Video (N.Z.) Limited.............................................. 100 New Zealand Warner Bros. Norway A/S......................................................... 100 Norway Warner Bros. Singapore Pte. Ltd................................................. 100 Singapore Warner Home Video (Ireland) Ltd................................................. 100 Ireland Warner Home Video Portugal Lda.................................................. 100 Portugal Warner-Lusomundo Sociedade Iberica de Cinemas Lda............................... 50 Portugal Warner Home Video Espanola S.A.................................................. 100 Spain Warner Bros. Consumer Products S.A............................................ 100 Spain Warner Mycal Corporation........................................................ 50 Japan Kabelkom Management Co. (partnership)(22)....................................... 50 Delaware Hungary Holding Co.............................................................. 100(20) New York Kabelkom Holding Co. (partnership)(22)........................................ 50 Delaware Quincy Jones Entertainment Company L.P. (partnership)........................... 50 Delaware DC Comics (partnership)......................................................... 50(9) New York HBO Ceska Republika, S.R.O...................................................... 100 Czech Republic - ------------ (1) TBS owns 58.75% and Castle Rock Entertainment, Inc. owns 41.25%. (2) Turner Omni Venture, Inc. owns 75% and ICC Ventures, Inc. owns 25%. (3) The names of five subsidiaries of Time Inc. carrying on the magazine publishing business are omitted. (4) The names of nine subsidiaries of Southern Progress Corporation carrying on the magazine or book publishing business are omitted. (5) The General Partners of TWE own 87.5% and TW/TAE, Inc. and Time Warner Companies, Inc. each own 6.25% as limited partners. (6) TWE owns 99% and TW Service Holding II, L.P. owns 1%. (footnotes continued on next page) 6 (footnotes continued from previous page) (7) TW Service Holding I, L.P. owns 99% and TW Service Holding II, L.P. owns 1%. (8) Time Warner Companies, Inc. owns 80% and Warner Communications Inc. owns 20%. (9) Warner Communications Inc. owns 50% and TWE owns 50%. (10) The names of 16 subsidiaries of New Chappell Inc. carrying on substantially the same music publishing operations in foreign countries are omitted. (11) The names of 34 subsidiaries of WEA International Inc. carrying on substantially the same record, tape and video cassette distribution operations in foreign countries are omitted. (12) Time Warner Companies, Inc. owns 86.34%, Warner Communications Inc. owns 7.8% and Time TBS Holdings, Inc. owns 5.86%. (13) American Television and Communications Corporation indirectly owns 50% of Paragon Communications and the remaining 50% is owned indirectly by TWI Cable Inc. (14) The names of 42 subsidiaries of TWI Cable Inc. carrying on the cable television business are omitted. (15) The names of 21 subsidiaries of TW/Kblcom Inc. carrying on the cable television business are omitted. (16) Time Warner Companies, Inc. owns 87.21% and Warner Communications Inc. owns 12.79%. (17) The names of 21 subsidiaries of Time Warner Communications Holdings Inc. carrying on the same alternate access operations are omitted. (18) TWE owns 99% and Time Warner Companies, Inc. owns 1%. (19) TWE owns 99% and TWE Asia Inc. owns 1%. (20) TWE owns 99% and HBO Direct, Inc. owns 1%. (21) Time Warner Entertainment Germany GmbH owns 85% and Time Warner Germany Holding GmbH owns 15%. (22) The names of 13 subsidiaries of Kabelkom Management Co. and Kabelkom Holding Co. carrying on substantially the same cable television operations in Hungary are omitted. 7