TORONTO -- Opening a new retail frontier, Canadian broadcaster Corus Entertainment and U.S. partner Comcast Corp. on Thursday said they would shortly launch a new video-on-demand service to provide Nelvana library product to households with kids aged six to 12 years. Toronto-based Corus, which owns and operates cartoon producer Nelvana Ltd., indicated the new Vortex on Demand service would launch in mid-July at no cost to Comcast digital cable customers and would be made available as part of Comcast's On Demand kids and teens programming offerings. As part of their agreement, Comcast will tap hundreds of titles from the Nelvana library, including Jacob Two-Two, Tales From the Crypt Keeper, Pippi Longstocking, and Elliot Moose.
TORONTO -- Canadian cartoon producer Nelvana Ltd. said Monday that it has inked a home video and DVD pact with Teletoon, the country's all-animation specialty channel. Toronto-based Nelvana said the joint venture with Teletoon will bring library titles like Pippi Longstocking and Braceface into retail stores under a newly-created Teletoon Presents label. Distribution partner kaBoom! Will release the first Teletoon Presents home entertainment offering, My Dad the Rock Star, on April 4, Nelvana said. Nelvana vp home entertainment Peter Maule said his company wanted to leverage its ties to the specialty channel to launch new home-video and DVD titles.
- 1/25/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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