E - Editors Weblog (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008
Guardian.co.uk, News International, Associated Newspapers, Trinity Mirror, Telegraph Media Group, Bauer and ITV Sport have all signed up Perfrom, a company that specialises in "monetising sports and entertainment rights in digital media."Perform is a sports video provider that provides publishers...
IGN (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008
Postman Pat (PC) The new PC game to will hit shelves in spring 2009.
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
POSTMAN Pat is to be broadcast in China after Entertainment Rights signed a deal with China's national television network.China Central Television has bought 106 episodes of the classic children's TV series, which will be broadcast to more thanADVERTISEMENT200 million children.Entertainment Rights, which has a market cap of about £40 million, yesterday also announced a raft of broadcast agreements...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
China’s 100 million under-fives will have the chance to cuddle Postman Pat and his black and white cat and collect the man from Greendale’s best exploits on DVD after deals struck by his owner, Entertainment Rights.
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 27/06/2008
TV News: Tiger Aspect taps Homeboyz for Kenyan series -- Entertainment Rights has bought worldwide distribution rights to Tiger Aspect Prods.' "Tinga Tinga Tales," a weekly animated series already pre-bought by Playhouse Disney in the U.S. and CBeebies in England.
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 17/06/2008
TV News: Company may sell Big Idea -- Troubled U.K. children’s and family specialist Entertainment Rights, whose properties include “Postman Pat” and “Basil Brush,” may sell one of its U.S. businesses to cut debt of some $200 million.
Times Online (Free subscription) | 15/06/2008
THE new chief executive of Entertainment Rights – the company best known for Basil Brush and Postman Pat – is raiding his toy cupboard in an attempt to trim group debts.
adfreak (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
"We're building the Waldo online ecosystem," Nicole Blake, svp of marketing at Classic Media/Entertainment Rights, tells Brandweek of taking the Where’s Waldo? franchise into cyberspace. Sounds like Ms. Blake is living the dream. The strategy: re-engage twentysomethings in the children’s-book...
Animated News (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
AWN reminds us that 2009 marks the 60th anniversary of Casper and Classic Media, an Entertainment Rights group company, is gearing up for the big celebration with the launch of an expanded licensing program for The Official Ambassador of Halloween. Casper products across key categories, including apparel, DVDs, music, digital content, games and social expressions [...]
TVShowsOnDVD.com News (Free subscription) | 13/05/2008
By David Lambert - Earlier this year we had the scoop that Entertainment Rights (possibly working through their subsidiary, Classic Media) and distributor Genius Entertainment had taken back control of... (more)
Paidcontent (Free subscription) | 12/05/2008
-- NBCU launches Saturday Night Live politics minisite : SNL still doesn't have a real contender for Obama impressions but it does have " SNL Politics ", newly launched with all the usual gimmicks and then some: e-cards, games, profiles of presidential candidates as depicted by cast members and an election for favorite SNL Presidential Candidate. The best bits—and possibly the worst: video clips featuring...
Paidcontent (Free subscription) | 12/05/2008
-- NBCU launches Saturday Night Live politics minisite : SNL still doesn't have a real contender for Obama impressions but it does have " SNL Politics ", newly launched with all the usual gimmicks and then some: e-cards, games, profiles of presidential candidates as depicted by cast members, an election for favorite SNL Presidential Candidate. The best bits—and possibly the worst: video clips featuring...
Izzy Neis (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
Entertainment Rights inks deals with YouTube, Joost and Babelgum to provide all three digital platforms with a selection of its kid/family-targeted animated content with the launch of Retro Heroes, a new free-to-view channel. Under the deal, YouTube debuts a version of Retro Heroes that features short-form (2 and 5 minute) webisodes from ER’s library, while [...]
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
TV News: Company is takeover target -- Net profits at battling U.K. tyke TV group Entertainment Rights dipped by 7% last year, according to results for the year ending December 31.
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
LONDON (Reuters) - Entertainment Rights , owner of children's television characters Postman Pat and Rupert Bear, reported annual pretax profit up 45 percent on Wednesday but said it remained cautious in its outlook.
