21-542: Splash Entertainment, LLC. (formerly known as Mike Young Productions, Inc. and MoonScoop Entertainment, LLC ) is an American animation studio that produces children's TV series. Splash also controls the streaming service Kabillion . The studio was originally owned and operated by three animation producers, husband and wife Mike and Liz Young, and Bill Schultz (6 seasons of The Simpsons , Garfield and Friends and Bobby's World ). The studio makes both traditional 2D and 3D computer animation . The company launched
42-533: A block also introduced by Litton for CW sister channel CBS the previous year. The move came as part of a shift by broadcast television networks towards using their Saturday morning lineup solely to comply with the educational programming requirements mandated by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), along with the cultural shift towards cable and online video on demand viewing of children's and animated programming. Vortexx aired for
63-555: A few shows from the block like Transformers Prime and Sonic X still remain on Kabillion. Kabillion also has several online presences. The company has been on YouTube since February 13, 2007. In July 2016, Kabillion partnered with Xumo to add VOD content to the service as well as a 24-hour live Kabilion channel. In August 2018, in a partnership with Amazon , Kabillion launched its current online merchandise store. In April 2019, Kabillion branched out on to Twitch , with its streams centered around live interviews with members of
84-454: A joint-venture with French studio Cyber Group Studios called CyberSplash Entertainment. The two companies expanded their partnership in February 2023 to include worldwide distribution rights to Splash's TV catalog. Light Chaser Animation Studios Kabillion Kabillion is a children's video on demand channel owned by Splash Entertainment . Launched on January 7, 2007, Kabillion
105-505: A lawsuit involving the Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise , 4Kids Entertainment, which programmed the CW4Kids/Toonzai block for the network, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. On May 1, 2012, Kidsco Media Ventures, an affiliate of Saban Capital Group , placed a bid to acquire some of their assets. On June 26, 2012, after competition from 4K Acquisition Corp, a subsidiary of Konami , the deal
126-419: A programming agreement with Litton Entertainment to launch a new Saturday morning E/I block replacing Vortexx. The block would be replaced on October 4, 2014 by One Magnificent Morning , a block produced by Litton Entertainment (now Hearst Media Production Group ) that would feature live-action documentary and lifestyle programs aimed at pre-teens and teenagers, although the block remained until 2014 similarly to
147-527: A self-distribution unit in 2002. On March 29, 2004, the company launched Taffy Entertainment, which would become the company's rights management and worldwide distribution subsidiary. Taffy soon launched a licensing unit in August. In October 2005, MoonScoop Group acquired a 51% majority stake in both MYP and Taffy, with Mike Young (through Mike Young Productions, Inc.) retaining a 49% stake. In March 2009, MoonScoop announced that both units would be rebranded under
168-468: A separate partnership with Kabillion to add programming from the Vortexx block to the existing Kabillion video on demand service for cable providers. The programs were listed on the service without any separate Vortexx subdivision under their individual show titles, with Vortexx promotional advertising. The shows currently remain on Kabillion with other advertising, even with the closure of Vortexx. Most of
189-508: Is available both as a free VOD channel currently available on Xfinity , Spectrum , Charter Communications , Cox Communications , Verizon Fios , Frontier FiberOptic and Optimum West digital cable systems across the United States, and as an OTT Network available on Sling TV , Roku , Amazon Fire TV , and Apple TV . Its headquarters are in Los Angeles, California . The service
210-466: Is divided into two distinct services, Kabillion , which features general audience programming, and Kabillion Girls Rule , which mainly features programming for both young girls and preschoolers. Both of these services carry productions from Splash Entertainment's catalog (some of which were formerly part of MoonScoop Group ). However, they also carry a variety of licensed titles from other outside production companies. Among these outside productions,
231-618: The Lost Galaxy installment of the Power Rangers franchise (which had been re-acquired by Saban), and the WWE wrestling series Saturday Morning Slam . The block came to an end on September 27, 2014, and was replaced the following week with a live-action E/I block from Litton Entertainment named One Magnificent Morning , marking the end of traditional Saturday morning children's programming on broadcast television. On April 6, 2011, following
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#1733093423839252-522: The Mexican-animated show El Chavo Animado made its English-language debut on Kabilion sometime in 2010. Later, on April 29, 2013, Kabillion entered a partnership with Saban Brands to add programming from The CW's Saturday-morning Vortexx block to the existing Kabillion service. Even with the discontinuance of Vortexx (the last conclusive Saturday-morning block without a strictly E/I-based lineup on broadcast television) on September 27, 2014,
273-490: The market 's former affiliate going dark ) was unable to schedule the block when it initially began its affiliation with the network, due to contractual obligations to paid programming slots and existing syndicated E/I programming on Saturday mornings through March 2013. The station began carrying Vortexx in its network-recommended timeslot on April 6, 2013, with the station's acquired E/I programming moving to Sunday afternoons. On April 29, 2013, Saban Brands announced
294-841: The MoonScoop brand. with Mike Young Productions and Taffy Entertainment rebranding as MoonScoop Entertainment, LLC . MoonScoop Entertainment, LLC.'s parent company, MoonScoop Group , entered administration in Paris courts in July 2013, but this did not affect the operations of the US company. In November, Mike Young filed a $ 5 million lawsuit against MoonScoop's US holding division for a violation of contract, deeming that his business attempted to purchase out MoonScoop Group's stake in MoonScoop Entertainment, LLC., but wouldn't let him do so. Young also claimed that he
315-500: The animation industry as well as some episodic binge streams of its series. Vortexx Vortexx was an American Saturday morning children's television programming block that aired on The CW from August 25, 2012 to September 27, 2014. Programmed by Saban Brands , it replaced Toonzai , a block that was programmed by 4Kids Entertainment until its bankruptcy . The Vortexx block primarily featured animated programs, although it also featured several live-action series, including
336-504: The block's programming aired in high definition , with older standard definition content presented in 4:3 or widescreen with stylized pillarboxing and windowboxing . Vortexx only ran an hour of programming that met the FCC's educational programming guidelines; as a result, The CW's affiliates handled the responsibility of filling the remaining two hours, The CW Plus cable-subchannel affiliates had E/I-compliant programs not acquired from
357-421: The final time on September 27, 2014. It was the last conclusive Saturday morning block across the major American broadcast television networks that primarily featured non-educational programming aimed at children. The KidsClick block from Sinclair Broadcast Group launched on both Sinclair stations and This TV on July 1, 2017, but had no association with a traditional broadcast network otherwise. Officially
378-559: The local time zone, as The CW Plus operates separate feeds based on the network's Eastern and Pacific time zone scheduling for primetime shows. San Antonio CW affiliate KMYS split the Vortexx block over two days, between early Sunday and early Monday mornings before 5:00 a.m. due to an existing arrangement to air Fox 's Weekend Marketplace paid programming block in lieu of sister station KABB . WTVW in Evansville, Indiana (which hurriedly joined The CW on January 31, 2013, due to
399-485: The network preferred the block to air from 7:00 a.m. to Noon in each time zone , though there were local scheduling variances in some areas that may have moved it to different hours, to Sundays, or split the lineup between Saturday or Sunday, along with local pre-emptions of select shows. CW Plus stations in the Central , Mountain , and Alaska time zones time zones also aired the block one hour earlier or later, depending on
420-417: Was completely unaware of MoonScoop Group's financial issues. On January 27, 2014, Dargaud , through their fully-owned subsidiary Ellipsanime , purchased MoonScoop's assets, and a week later on February 3, Mike Young purchased out Ellipsanime's 51% share in MoonScoop Entertainment, LLC., and rebranded the company as Splash Entertainment, LLC . On June 13, 2022, Splash Entertainment announced they would form
441-510: Was finalized, with 4K Acquisition receiving the U.S. rights to the Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise and Saban receiving all other assets, including the programming rights to The CW's Saturday morning block. On July 2, 2012, it was announced that Saban Capital Group , via Kidsco Media Ventures, would begin programming the block that fall. On July 12, 2012, it was announced that the block would be named Vortexx, which launched on August 25, 2012. On June 5, 2014, The CW announced that it had entered into
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