Saban Capital Group LLC is an American

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based in

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focused on media, entertainment and communications. Formed in 2001 by

Haim Saban Haim Saban (; ; born October 15, 1944) is an Israeli and American media proprietor, investor, musical composer and producer of records, film, and television. A businessman with interests in financial services, entertainment, and media, and an ...

, Saban Capital Group owns Saban Films, and co-owns

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History

In October 2006, SCG's Saban Entertainment Group division announced the beginning of its virtual studio program for starting up and developing family entertainment. In March 2007,

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was sold to Broadcasting Media Partners which includes Saban Capital Group,

Madison Dearborn Partners Madison Dearborn Partners (MDP) is an American private equity firm specializing in leveraged buyouts of privately held or publicly traded companies, or divisions of larger companies; recapitalizations of family-owned or closely held companies; ba ...

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, and

Thomas H. Lee Partners Thomas H. Lee Partners, L.P. is an American private equity firm headquartered in Boston. The firm focuses on investing in middle market growth companies across various sectors, including financial technology, services, healthcare, technology, ...

. On October 17, 2011, Saban Capital Group acquired 7.5% stake in Jakarta-based

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n largest integrated media company,

Media Nusantara Citra PT Media Nusantara Citra Tbk, the MNC Media, or MNC, is an Indonesian Mass media, media company. MNC's core businesses are content production. The group owns and operates four free-to-air television networks – RCTI, MNCTV, GTV (Indonesian TV ...

. In July 2012, Saban Capital Group acquired minority stake in PT MNC Sky Vision Tbk, the largest pay-TV operator in

which owns

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and Top TV. In June 2012, Kidsco Media Ventures LLC, a SCG affiliate, jointly with

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's 4K Acquisition Corp. purchased some of the key assets of

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with Kidsco getting the ''Dragon Ball Z Kai'', ''Cubix'', ''

Sonic X is a Japanese anime television series based on Sega's ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' video game series. Produced by TMS Entertainment under partnership with Sega and Sonic Team, and directed by Hajime Kamegaki, ''Sonic X'' initially ran for 52 ep ...

'' and The CW Network's Saturday Morning programming block contract rights. In August 2012, Saban Capital Group launched a new music publishing division called "Music Ventures". On September 13, 2018, ''Saban Capital Acquisition Corp.'' announced the purchase of ''

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'' and ''Sim Video International'' in a $622 million cash and stock deal. The transaction was aimed at creating a comprehensive production and post-production entity. Saban Capital Acquisition Corp. proposed a change of name to Panavision Holdings Inc., but expected to continue to trade on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Saban ended up terminating its deal to acquire Panavision on March 1, 2019.

Saban Entertainment Group

Libraries

* ''Hollywood Star Dogs'' * '' Cirque du Soleil Media'' * ''

CNCO CNCO was an American latin boy band based in Miami, Miami, Florida. The group consisted of Richard Camacho, Erick Brian Colón, Christopher Vélez and ZABDIEL, Zabdiel De Jesús; Joel DELEŌN, Joel Pimentel was a member until his departure in M ...

'' * ''Emojiville'' * '' La Banda'' * '' Macbeth Footwear'' * ''

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'' * '' MIX5'' * '' Paul Frank'' * '' Piping Hot''

Saban Brands

On May 5, 2010, Saban Capital Group announced that it would start Saban Brands (SB), a successor company to Saban Entertainment (later known as

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 ...

) dedicated to acquiring entertainment and consumer brands. On May 12 the same year, 2010, Saban Brands bought back the ''

Power Rangers ''Power Rangers'' is an American media franchise created by Haim Saban, Shuki Levy and Shotaro Ishinomori built around a live-action superhero television series, based on the Japanese tokusatsu franchise ''Super Sentai''. It is currently ow ...

'' franchise and some of its some related shows from

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for $43 million and would produce a new nineteenth season of Power Rangers that began airing on

Nickelodeon Nickelodeon (nicknamed Nick) is an American pay television channel and the flagship property of the Nickelodeon Group, a sub-division of the Paramount Media Networks division of Paramount Global. Launched on April 1, 1979, as the first ca ...

on February 7, 2011, with the previous 700 episodes being rerun on

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. In February 2018, Saban Brands appointed

Hasbro Hasbro, Inc. (; a syllabic abbreviation of its original name, Hassenfeld Brothers) is an American multinational corporation, multinational toy manufacturing and entertainment holding company founded on December 6, 1923 by Henry, Hillel and Herma ...

as the global master toy licensee for ''Power Rangers'' beginning in April 2019 with a future option to purchase the franchise. On May 1, 2018, Saban agreed to sell ''Power Rangers'' and other entertainment assets to Hasbro for US$522 million in cash and stock, with the sale expected to close in the second quarter. Other properties in the deal included '' My Pet Monster'', '' Popples'', '' Julius Jr.'', '' Luna Petunia'', '' Treehouse Detectives'' and Saban Brands' content/media libraries (excluding '' Rainbow Butterfly Unicorn Kitty'', ''

'' and other properties that were sold to different companies before the deal). Saban's ''

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'' and ''

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'' licenses were also transferred to Hasbro, although were later left to expire, thus reverting to

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for its international distribution. Only nine existing employees out of sixty would be retained by SCG, and the Saban Brands subsidiary ended operations upon the closure of business on July 2, 2018.

Saban Films

On May 6, 2014, Saban Capital announced the launch of Saban Films (SF), a distribution company that will acquire yearly 8 to 10 feature films for the North American market.

Units

* Saban Entertainment Group * Saban Kids & Family * Saban Films * Saban Real Estate, LLC

Investments

Current

(CTE) (JV) *

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* Taomee (minority stake) *

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(2016) *

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* IronSource * Sim Video International

Past

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* Keshet Broadcasting LTD *

* ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG * Vessel * Broadcasting Media Partners (20%) **

, Inc. *

(MNC) (7.5%)

Political activities

The Saban Group is a top contributor to the Democratic Party. It has donated to former President

Barack Obama Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who was the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African American president in American history. O ...

's campaign and was one of the top donors of the Clinton Campaign of 2016 with a contribution of approximately 12 million dollars.

References

External links

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