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In May 2002, 4Kids Entertainment launched a home video division called 4Kids Entertainment Home Video and appointed FUNimation Productions as the exclusive distributor for their Yu-Gi-Oh!, Cubix, Cabbage Patch Kids and Tama and Friends properties. [41] By 2002, 4Kids got $140 million in Pokémon revenue. [42] [43]
4Kids Entertainment, and its predecessor company (Leisure Concepts) and successor company (4Licensing Corporation) along with their subsidiaries have licensed, developed, and distributed a wide variety of media products, ranging from video games and television programs to toy lines.
Starting on September 2, 2003, 4Kids Entertainment and Funimation Entertainment began distributing 2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated TV series to DVD, and originally also to VHS. The latest VHS release occurred on June 7, 2005, [1] while the original run of DVD releases continued until October 21, 2008. [2]
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The series was initially released on DVD by FUNimation Entertainment and 4Kids Home Video in various compilation releases, with pre-2005 releases also available on VHS. On July 25, 2023, Nickelodeon and Paramount Home Entertainment released the entirety of the 2003 series in a single box set. [6]
From 2003 to 2009 in the United States, 4Kids Home Video and their exclusive distributor FUNimation Entertainment released VHS tapes (until 2005) and DVDs of the series in single-release volumes and later multi-disc boxsets. The first two to be released were "A Super Sonic Hero" and "The Chaos Factor," released on June 1, 2004.
Funimation Entertainment, along with OlympuSAT, launched the Funimation Channel on September 29, 2005, the second 24-hour anime digital cable network in North America (the first being A.D. Vision's Anime Network). [72] [73] OlympuSAT was the exclusive distributor of the channel. [73] On March 23, 2006, a syndicated block was announced for ...
The anime was available on 4Kids's video on demand service and www.4Kids.tv, but was removed from the 4Kids TV website in October 2009, as 4Kids Entertainment held the rights to the anime until September 2009. [9] A moderator on the 4Kids forums stated in November 2009 that 4Kids no longer held the license. [10]