Nickelodeon Acquires Rights to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Franchise

Deal worth $60 million, new CGI series to premiere in 2012

Mike Reynolds (Multichannel News) -- Broadcasting & Cable, 10/21/2009 11:24:39 AM

Nickelodeon has acquired global, multiplatform rights to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise for some $60 million.

The deal with The Mirage Group and 4Kids Entertainment gives Nickelodeon the global intellectual property rights to TV, film and video game property.

Nickelodeon also announced plans to develop a new CG-animated television series based on the popular superhero franchise, with a premiere expected in 2012.

Read the full story at Multichannel.com

Talkback

We would love your feedback!

Post a comment

» View All Talkback Threads

Related Content

• Topics
• Author

4Kids Launching Shows on The CW, Fox

09/03/2008

Time Warner Cable Launches VOD Day-and-Date in Texas

08/08/2007

Hedgehog Stays in Fox Box

05/12/2004

Sundance Channel Acquires Rights to Marc Jacobs Documentary

10/08/2007

Ski Channel Signs Event Deals

05/27/2008

Also by this author

• TNT Begins With Its Largest NBA Opening Night Ever

• OnScreen Media Summit: Cox Continues Focus On My Primetime VOD Platform

• Nickelodeon Acquires Rights to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Franchise

• Scripps Rebrands Fine Living Into Cooking Channel

• Hispanic TV Summit: Telemundo's Browne -- Count On Census 2010 Being A 'Game-Changer'

Also by Mike Reynolds

Product Wire

• Resource Center
• Browse Categories
• Browse Companies

Featured Company

• Parks Associates

  

  Parks Associates is an internationally recognized market research and consulting company specializing in emerging consumer technology products and services. Founded in 1986, Parks Associates creates research capital for companies ranging from... more

• Telestream

  

  Telestream products are used by the world's leading media and entertainment companies and corporations for transcoding and workflow automation. Telestream helps customers transform their media for multiplatform distribution to web, mobile, DVD... more

• Akamai

  

  Akamai provides market-leading managed services for powering rich media, dynamic transactions, and enterprise applications online. Having pioneered the content delivery market one decade ago, Akamai's services have been adopted by the world's most... more

• Disney ESPN Media Networks

  

  ESPN, Inc. is the world's leading multinational, multimedia sports entertainment company featuring a portfolio of over 50 multimedia sports assets. The company is comprised of six domestic television networks (ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN Classic, ESPNEWS... more

---

Most Recent Resources

• Robust Encoding, Transcoding and Streaming Systems – Critical...
• Simultaneous Multi-Format Encoding for Efficient Content Repurposing
• Broadband Services: The Turning Point
• Digital Lifestyles and the Service Provider
• IPTV and the Digital Home