Time Warner's Turner Broadcasting will extend voluntary exit packages to more than 500 staffers in an effort to slash overhead and free up cash needed to bankroll programming and technology.

John Martin, CEO, unveiled a restructuring program in June to combat the dip in ratings.

TBS is the home of CNN, TBS and TNT and is a major contributor to Time Warner's bottom line.

It kicked in $2.8B of TWC's $6.8B second-quarter revenues and $940M of its $1.6B operating profit.

TB has 13,500 staffers.