{"id":17319,"date":"2009-08-05T11:59:21","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T15:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=17319"},"modified":"2009-08-05T12:05:29","modified_gmt":"2009-08-05T16:05:29","slug":"4kids-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/4kids-for-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"4Kids For Sale?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/429789_4kidsentlogo.jpg\" alt=\"429789_4kidsentlogo\" width=\"226\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17320\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Digital media news site PaidContent.org <a href=\"http:\/\/paidcontent.org\/article\/419-yu-gi-oh-cabbage-patch-kids-u.s.-parent-4kids-entertainment-for-sale\/\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> that children&#8217;s entertainment media licensor\/distributor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.4kidsentertainment.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">4Kids Entertainment<\/a> is now in the early stages of negotiating a buy-out with potential new owners. 4Kids, the domestic master licensor of anime titles including  Yu-Gi-Oh!, Shaman King, and Dinosaur King, hasn&#8217;t been profitable since 2006. 4Kids has neither confirmed nor denied the report, saying only, &#8220;We don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t comment on rumors or speculation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/wallstreetpit.com\/9140-4kids-entertainment-puts-itself-up-for-sale\" target=\"_blank\">Wall Street Pit<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital media news site PaidContent.org reports that children&#8217;s entertainment media licensor\/distributor 4Kids Entertainment is now in the early stages of negotiating a buy-out with potential new owners. 4Kids, the domestic master licensor of anime titles including Yu-Gi-Oh!, Shaman King, and Dinosaur King, hasn&#8217;t been profitable since 2006. 4Kids has neither confirmed nor denied the report, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17319"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17333,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17319\/revisions\/17333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}