Posts Tagged ‘4Kids’

Following the announcement of Dragon Ball Z Kai for this Fall, 4Kids CEO Alfred Kahn has confirmed that the company will rebrand the CW4Kids programming block to the tentative name of “Toonzai” before settling on a final name later this year. The block will be scheduled from 7:00AM-12:00PM EDT across The CW affiliates and will [...]

4Kids Entertainment faces possible delisting from the New York Stock Exchange after receiving notice that its capitalization is lower than the minimum required to be listed on the exchange. This follows poor financial results due to the abject failure of its internally developed Chaotic multimedia property comprising a collectible card game and companion animated series [...]

Alfred Kahn, known to American otaku as ‘Al’ and the man behind the company that bastardized the One Piece and Yu-Gi-Oh franchises has been revealed as the buyer for white collar criminal Bernie Madoff’s former Manhattan apartment steps away from the now defunct investment firm at the center of one of the largest cases of [...]

According to paidcontent, 4kids is reportedly putting itself up for sale and going through a selective bidding process as a result of declining revenues and the loss of a very lucrative deal with Fox. The company went through a 15 percent staff reduction last year to cut costs with its stock price declining for the [...]

American media licensor and toy developer 4Kids Entertainment has posted a five minute test reel of English subtitled Sonic X footage to gauge demand for the production and availability of the original Japanese version. 4Kids Entertainment originally licensed Sonic X for television broadcast on the 4Kids TV programming block on Fox beginning in 2003 with [...]