Time Warner Name Change Set for Oct. 16

AOL Time Warner Inc. set a date for its planned name change, saying in a prepared statement that it will officially become Time Warner Inc. Oct. 16.

At the same time, the media giant will change its New York Stock Exchange ticker symbol to TWX.

AOL Time Warner announced that it would make the change last month, but it gave no exact date.

In the statement, the company said its corporate Web site would also change Oct. 16 to timewarner.com.