Kids Entertainment - TMNTPedia - Wikia. Entertainment (commonly known as 4. Kids) is an American film and television production company in bankruptcy since April 2. TMNT cartoon and acted as the licensor for TMNT in general from 2. It is known for English- dubbing Japanese anime and specializing in the acquisition, production and licensing of children's entertainment around the United States. The first anime that 4.
Kids dubbed was the first eight seasons of Pokémon that aired on Kids' WB! United States. The company is most well known for its range of television licenses, which has included the multi- billion dollar Pokémon and Yu- Gi- Oh! Japanese anime franchises. Kids ran three programming blocks, each of which was home to the 2. Fox Box, 4. Kids. TV, and The CW4. Kids, all aimed at children. As of December 2.
Kids. TV block ended on Fox Network, leaving 4. Kids to only broadcast The CW4. Kids. 4. Kids Entertainment has its world headquarters on Sixth Avenue in New York City, its subsidiary, 4. Kids Productions, has its headquarters in a separate building in Manhattan. The New York Stock Exchange delisted 4. Kids (NYSE: KDE) on June 1, 2.
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- Public: Industry: Licensing: Fate: Reincorporated as 4Licensing Corporation (OTCQB: FOUR) Founded: 1970 (as Leisure Concepts, Inc.) 1992 (began television production) Headquarters: New York, NY, USA.
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On April 6, 2. 01. Chapter 1. 1 bankruptcy protection following a lawsuit concerning the Yu- Gi- Oh! In 2. 01. 2, 4. Kids Entertainment was renamed as 4. Licensing Corporation. Licenses and productions. Kids Entertainment licenses a wide variety of media products, ranging from video games and television programs to toy lines featuring the Royal Air Force. Kids focuses on licensing content for the children and pre- teen market, including content for both boys and girls.[ Many of its licenses come from dubs of Japanese anime, including Fighting Foodons, and Shaman King, while others are Western animations or properties like Chaotic, or Back to the Future: The Animated Series.
Most programs are either licensed out to local stations, or broadcast on their dedicated programming block 4. Kids TV. Typically, 4. Kids will retain several properties on hiatus (such as Yu- Gi- Oh! GX), or in production to allow for turnover of their existing products. Kids also licenses, and merchandises, a number of non- animation based products, such as calendars like The Dog, and toys like Cabbage Patch Kids. Television. Fox. Box/4. Kids TVIn late January 2.
Kids Entertainment signed a four- year, US$1. Fox Broadcasting Company to program its Saturday morning lineup. It premiered September 1. Fox. Box"[ after Fox Kids was dissolved following the purchase of Fox Family Worldwide by The Walt Disney Company. Fox. Box rebranded to "4.
Kids TV" in January 2. Kids Entertainment is wholly responsible for the content of the block and collects all advertising revenues from it. Kids Entertainment announced that it would exit its contract with Fox and terminate its Fox programming block by the end of 2. The final broadcast of 4. Kids TV on Fox was on December 2. Many of the licenses distributed by 4.
Kids Entertainment, and presented on 4. Kids TV are managed by 4. Kids Productions, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of 4. Kids Entertainment. First launched in 1. Kids Productions deals primarily with television, film, home video, and music licenses, and currently manages the programming for 4. Kids. TV. The CW4.
Kids. On October 2, 2. Warner Bros. and CBS announced that the Kids' WB programming block on their co- owned network, The CW, would be ending in 2.
Rights for the five hour Saturday morning block were bought by 4. Kids, and they began to program the time with their own programming (mixed in with three former Kids' WB originals) in September 2. Because of this additional deal, 4. Kids provided programming for both The CW and Fox in the 2.
Kids nine hours of combined children's programming on two broadcast networks, as 4. Kids. TV ran until December 2. The new block, The CW4. Kids, started May 2. The CW4. Kids was renamed to Toonzai starting on August 1. Magical Do- Re- Mi!, Cubix: Robots for Everyone, Dinosaur King, Yu- Gi- Oh!, Yu- Gi- Oh!
D's, Sonic X and Dragon Ball Z Kai. Toonzai. Toonzai is a Saturday morning cartoon block on The CW that premiered on August 1. September 2. 01. 0) taking the place of The CW4. Kids. Even though 4. Kids TV was discontinued as it's now online only, this programming block continued to use the CW4. Kids name, to reflect to the network it airs on. Kids also indicated that it will retain Yu- Gi- Oh!
Sonic X in its lineup. In addition to that, Toonzai also airs Dragon Ball Z Kai. Dragon Ball Z Kai also airs on Nicktoons Network in the US. Toonzai is The CW4. Kids's nickname. The "Toonzai" brand name is similar to Cartoon Network's former action animation block "Toonami", which aired briefly on The CW4.
Kids's predecessor, Kids' WB from July 2. June 2. 00. 2. Other notable business proceedings.
Sight Licensing Solutions Inc. On April 1. 8, 2. Kids had announced a new subsidiary entitled 4. Sight Licensing Solutions Inc.
Sight will license and market brands aimed at adults, teenagers and pre- teens. We have built an impressive roster of captivating and successful children's entertainment properties," said Alfred Kahn.[1. Given the increased number of brands that we are representing that focus on an older audience, we felt it would be beneficial to organize a new subsidiary primarily devoted to the marketing and licensing of these brands. We believe that we can successfully utilize our marketing and licensing expertise to build brand value for properties targeting an older consumer that are not necessarily media or character driven.". Kids and Microsoft. On January 1. 7, 2.
Kids and Microsoft signed a deal to license children's video games exclusively for the Xbox 3. One of the first titles announced was Viva Piñata which would be developed by Rare Ltd. Editing and localization of anime. The management of 4.
Kids Entertainment has stated that it seeks to "localize anime so children in English- speaking countries will understand it..", judging that localization is necessary in order for these titles to be profitable. For most titles, the editing 4.
Kids performs falls into a few broad categories – 4. Kids may seek to "Americanize" a program by changing character names, dialog, music, food, or stereotypes which would be unfamiliar or even offensive to an American audience, as in the Pokémon series, where rice balls are changed into American food such as jelly doughnuts or submarine sandwiches. The company also may replace some materially suggestive objects such as cigarettes or guns with lollipops, water guns, or crosses or may content deemed too violent or suggestive for American children.
In an interview with Al Kahn, former CEO of 4. Kids, when asked how the company decides what properties or anime to acquire, his reply was, ".
United States, then they're going to have to accept the fact that it's going to be available in two styles." While this was true for a short while, as the first several episodes of Yu- Gi- Oh! A March 2. 00. 6 study by the Parents Television Council on violence in children's television programs said that the 4. Kids dub of Shaman King was still too violent for children. L. Brent Bozell also pointed out the 4. Kids- dubbed Shaman King in one of his weekly column as an example of children's media he perceived as having undue "cultural landmines".
Yu- Gi- Oh! lawsuit and bankruptcy. On March 2. 9, 2. TV Tokyo and Nihon Ad Systems (NAS) sued 4. Kids Entertainment, alleging that the company entered into illegal agreements with other companies, including Funimation Entertainment and Majesco Entertainment, regarding the Yu- Gi- Oh! TV Tokyo claimed that those agreements allowed 4.
Kids to collect royalties without paying a portion of those royalties to TV Tokyo, which violates their original agreement. The companies are seeking almost $5 million in "underpayments, wrongful deductions, and unmet obligations." As part of the suit, the companies terminated the Yu- Gi- Oh! Kids. Neither Funimation nor Majesco are listed as defendants in the case. On March 3. 1, 4. Kids Entertainment filed a shareholder report stating that on March 2.
Kids 1. 0 days notice as required. Kids further revealed that they had made a good- faith payment of $1 million and agreed to a March 1. TV Tokyo and NAS nevertheless decided to go ahead with.
The company also stated that even if the termination is found to be valid, the company is prepared to do whatever it takes to stay in business. Kids has filed for Chapter 1. April 6, 2. 01. 1. Kids requested that the court suspend co- licensor Asatsu DK's attempts to exercise control of the Yu- Gi- Oh! United States, particularly in terms of selling the rights to the latest anime series, Yu- Gi- Oh! Zexal, which was due to be pitched at the Licensing International Expo on June 1.
However, on June 2, bankruptcy judge Shelley Chapman issued a court order on TV Tokyo and NAS for an automatic stay on the U. S. Yu- Gi- Oh! license and said that the trial will proceed in two phases.
The first phase is whether the contractual termination was valid, and the second is how much money 4. Kids would owe the companies. The first phase of the trial began on August 2. On October 2. 7, it was announced that 4. Kids and the executives of former financial company Lehman Brothers reached a deal, after Lehman had improperly invested most of 4. Kids funds in auction rate securities.
Kids received $5. On December 2. 9, Chapman ruled that the Yu- Gi- Oh! TV Tokyo, NAS and ADK not terminating the agreement properly.