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List Of DIC Programs
This is a list of programs produced and/or acquired by DIC Entertainment. Much of DIC's catalogue is currently owned by WildBrain, the successor in interest to Cookie Jar Group (which acquired DIC in 2008). In 1990, DIC signed an international distribution deal with the Italian studio Silvio Berlusconi Communications, covering five or six series. In 2006, DIC reclaimed the international distribution rights to 20 of its series from The Walt Disney Company, the successor in interest to Créativité et Développement. Animated TV series DIC Audiovisuel DIC Enterprises / DIC Entertainment / DIC Animation City Live-action TV series Specials * '' Poochie'' (1984) * ''Robotman & Friends'' (1985) (co-production with United Media Productions and LBS Communications) * '' The Kingdom Chums: Little David's Adventure'' (1986) (co-production with Diana Kerew Productions) * '' Barbie and the Rockers: Out of This World'' (September 1987) (co-production with Mattel) ** '' Barbie an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DIC Entertainment
DIC Entertainment Corporation (; also known as DIC Audiovisuel, DIC Enterprises, DIC Animation City, DIC Entertainment, L.P., and DIC Productions, sometimes stylized as DİC) was a French American film and television production company that was mostly associated as an animation studio. As a former division of The Walt Disney Company, DIC produced live-action feature films and licensed numerous anime series. In 2008, DIC was acquired by Cookie Jar Group in June and was later folded into Cookie Jar in December. As of 2023, most of the DIC library is currently owned by WildBrain (formerly DHX Media) after the company acquired Cookie Jar in October 2012. History 1971–1982: DIC Audiovisuel Diffusion, Information Communications (DIC) was founded in France in 1971 by Jean Chalopin as part of the Compagnie Luxembourgeoise de Télédiffusion (now RTL Group), a well-established media company. DIC primarily focused on producing television content. In 1981, DIC formed a partnership ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mediawan Thematics
Mediawan Thematics (formerly known as AB Groupe) is a French television channel business and audiovisual distribution group in the field of broadcasting that is owned by Mediawan. History Mediawan Thematics had its roots under the name of AB Productions which it was founded in 1977 by Jean-Luc Azoulay and Claude Berda as a Music production (music industry), music production company, and in 1987 went into the world of television. In 1991, AB Productions created their own music record publishing label named AB Disques who had published their own music videos. In December 1995, AB Groupe launched their first television channel named AB Channel 1 (now AB1). In July 1996, AB Productions announced that they've expanded their catalogue by acquiring Pierre Grimblat's French production company Hamster Productions and its parent company The Hamster Group which had merged with AB Productions to become the biggest French television production company with Hamster Productions became a subs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BVS Entertainment
BVS Entertainment, Inc., previously known as Saban Productions, Saban Entertainment and Saban International, is a subsidiary of the Walt Disney Company. Founded on April 24, 1980, as a music production company by Haim Saban and Shuki Levy, it slowly transitioned to or gravitated towards television production and distribution (marketing), distribution, where it is most known for producing and distributing children's television series, children's programs for Freeform (TV channel), Fox Family/ABC Family and defunct channels Fox Kids and Jetix. The company imported, Dubbing (filmmaking), dubbed and adapted various media formats from Japan such as ''Maple Town'', ''Noozles'', ''Funky Fables'', ''Samurai Pizza Cats'', and the first three ''Digimon'' series to North American and international markets over syndication, including both animation and live-action shows. Saban also adapted various tokusatsu shows from Toei Company, including ''Power Rangers'' (based on the ''Super Sentai'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kidd Video
''Kidd Video'' (originally in development as ''Hot Rocks'') is an American Saturday morning live action/cartoon created by DIC Enterprises in association with Saban Productions. The series originally ran on NBC from 1984 to 1985. Reruns continued on the network until 1987 when CBS picked the show up. In the show, four teenagers are taken into a strange dimension called "the Flipside" and become cartoon characters, forced to fight the Master Blaster and his gang, the Copy Cats. The show included then-current music videos. Ownership of the series passed to Disney in 2001 when Disney acquired Fox Kids Worldwide, which also includes Saban Entertainment. Premise The title sequence explained the plot; Kidd Video and his band (Named Kidd, Carla, Ash, & Whiz) of the same name (played by live action performers in the first half of the title sequence) were practicing in a storage unit when an animated villain named the Master Blaster appeared, and transported them to the Master Blaster ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Clark Productions
Dick Clark Productions, LLC (DCP, stylized in lowercase as dick clark productions or dcp) is an American multinational television production company founded by radio and TV host Dick Clark. The studio primarily produces Awards ceremony, award shows and other music entertainment programs, including the Golden Globe Awards (owned outright by DCP since 2023), Academy of Country Music Awards, the DCP-created American Music Awards, the Billboard Music Awards (presented by co-owned music magazine ''Billboard (magazine), Billboard''), ''Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve'', and ''So You Think You Can Dance'' (with 19 Entertainment). Some of its earlier productions, such as ''American Bandstand'', ''New Year's Rockin' Eve'', and ''TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes'' (initially with Carson Entertainment), were hosted by Clark himself. The company was sold to a group led by Daniel Snyder in 2007 for $150 million. In September 2012, it was sold again to Guggenheim Partners, Mandalay Entertai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolf Rock TV
''Wolf Rock TV'' is a 1984 American live action/animated series produced by DIC Enterprises and Dick Clark Productions, featuring the voice of Wolfman Jack. The series ran for seven episodes on American Broadcasting Company, ABC before it was canceled due to low ratings. ''Wolf Rock TV'' was replaced by ''Scary Scooby Funnies'', which consisted of reruns of ''Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo (1980 TV series), Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo'' shorts from ''The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Show'' (1980–1982). The series re-aired in first-run syndication, syndication in 1989 with the animated series ''Kidd Video'' in a segment known as "The Wolf Rock Power Hour". As of today, copies of the series remain unavailable to the public, though some animation cels and merchandise relating to the show have surfaced. Synopsis Wolfman hosts a rock music TV program with three teenagers, Sarah, Sunny and Ricardo, while playing some real live action music videos. A parrot named Bopper also appeared as their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Greetings
American Greetings Corporation is a privately held American company and is the world's second largest greeting card producer behind Hallmark Cards. Based in Westlake, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland, the company sells paper greeting cards, electronic greeting cards, gift packaging, stickers and party products. In addition, the company owns the Carlton Cards, Tender Thoughts, Papyrus, Recycled Paper Greetings and Gibson Greetings brands. American Greetings' former toy design and licensing division, initially called Those Characters From Cleveland, subsequently renamed AG Properties and American Greetings Entertainment and now separately owned as Cloudco Entertainment. American Greetings also holds an exclusive license for Nickelodeon characters. History Sapirstein Greeting Card Sapirstein Greeting Card Co. was founded in 1906 by Polish immigrant Jacob Sapirstein (1885–1987), who sold cards to stores from a horse-drawn cart, American Greetings has been run by membe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Get Along Gang
''The Get Along Gang'' is a group of characters created in 1983 by Tony Byrd, Tom Jacobs, Ralph Shaffer, Linda Edwards, Muriel Fahrion, and Mark Spangler for American Greetings' toy design and licensing division, "Those Characters from Cleveland" (now Cloudco Entertainment), for a series of greeting cards. ''The Get Along Gang'' is a group of 6 pre-adolescent anthropomorphic animal characters in the fictional town of Green Meadow, who form a club that meets in an abandoned caboose and who have various adventures whose upbeat stories were intended to show the importance of teamwork and friendship. The success of the greeting card line led to a Saturday morning television series, which aired on CBS for 13 episodes in the 1984–1985 season, with reruns showing from January to June 1986. Characters ''The Get Along Gang'' franchise was loosely inspired by Hal Roach's ''Our Gang'' series of short films. The core six members of the gang appeared frequently in merchandising and the sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American Commercial broadcasting, commercial broadcast Television broadcaster, television and radio Radio network, network that serves as the flagship property of the Disney Entertainment division of the Walt Disney Company. ABC is headquartered on Riverside Drive in Burbank, California, directly across the street from Walt Disney Studios (Burbank), Walt Disney Studios and adjacent to the Team Disney – Roy E. Disney Animation Building. The network maintains secondary offices at 77 66th Street (Manhattan), West 66th Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City, which houses its broadcast center and the headquarters of its news division, ABC News (United States), ABC News. Since 2007, when ABC Radio (also known as Cumulus Media Networks) was sold to Citadel Broadcasting, ABC has reduced its broadcasting operations almost exclusively to television. The youngest of the "Big Three (American television), Big Three" American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Littles (TV Series)
''The Littles'' (French: ''Les Minipouss'') is an animated television series originally produced between September 10, 1983 and November 2, 1985. It is based on the characters from ''The Littles'', a series of children's novels by American author John Peterson, the first of which was published in 1967. The series was produced for the American broadcast network ABC by the French/American studio DIC Audiovisuel. It was post-produced by a Canadian animation studio, Animation City Editorial Services. Television history Along with '' Inspector Gadget'' and '' Heathcliff and the Catillac Cats'', ''The Littles'' was one of the first cartoons produced by DIC Entertainment for American television, and it was the only one of the three to air on a network rather than in syndication. The first two seasons of shows featured The Littles around the Bigg household, but to improve the show's popularity the final season featured the Littles traveling around the world. During the production ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Field Communications
Field Communications was an American broadcast media company and a wholly owned division of Field Enterprises, which owned the ''Chicago Sun-Times'' and the ''Chicago Daily News''. Based in Chicago, Illinois, the company had owned UHF independent television stations in the United States, with WFLD-TV in Chicago as its flagship and largest-market station. History The broadcasting arm of Field Enterprises began in January 1966 with the initial sign-on of WFLD. On May 26, 1972, Field sold a majority ownership (about 77.5 percent) of WFLD-TV to Oakland, California–based Kaiser Broadcasting; in turn, Kaiser sold a 22.5 percent minority stake in their station group to Field. The Kaiser chain consisted of WKBD-TV in Detroit, WKBF-TV in Cleveland, WKBS-TV in the Philadelphia area, KBHK-TV in San Francisco, WKBG-TV in Boston (owned by Kaiser in a joint venture with the ''Boston Globe'') and KBSC-TV in the Los Angeles area. KBSC-TV, which had struggled in the Los An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nelvana
Nelvana Limited (; also known as Nelvana Enterprises, Nelvana International or Nelvana Digital; commonly known as Nelvana; stylized as "nelvana") is a Canadian animation studio and entertainment production company owned by Corus Entertainment since 2000. Founded in July 1971 by Michael Hirsh (producer), Michael Hirsh, Patrick Loubert, and Clive A. Smith, it was named after Nelvana of the Northern Lights, the first Canadian national superhero, who was created by Adrian Dingle (artist), Adrian Dingle. The company's production logo is a polar bear looking at North Star, Polaris, the North Star. The company is based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in North America and it maintains international offices in France, Ireland and Japan, as well as smaller offices in the top three cities in the U.S. Many of its films, shows and specials are based on licensed properties and literature, but original programming is also part of its roster. Although the company specializes in children's media, Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
