{"id":7309,"date":"2004-05-13T11:18:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-13T15:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2004\/05\/13\/manga-entertainment-acquired-by-idt\/"},"modified":"2004-05-13T11:18:00","modified_gmt":"2004-05-13T15:18:00","slug":"manga-entertainment-acquired-by-idt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/manga-entertainment-acquired-by-idt\/","title":{"rendered":"Manga Entertainment Acquired By IDT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Multinational telephone and technology company IDT Entertainment, the parent company of Anchor Bay Entertainment and several special effects studios, has purchased Manga Entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In a little more than two years IDT Entertainment has established itself as a worldwide entertainment leader,&#8221; said Jim Courter, IDT&#8217;s CEO. &#8220;IDT Entertainment leads the world in primetime broadcast animation programming, and is quickly emerging as a top producer of animated feature films. Now, with the acquisition of Manga Entertainment, IDT Entertainment has a foothold in the hottest genre of &#8220;anime&#8221; style projects coming out of Asia. It will allow IDT Entertainment to develop and co-produce new titles for worldwide broadcast and distribution.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/home.businesswire.com\/portal\/site\/google\/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&#038;newsId=20040513005288&#038;newsLang=en\" target=\"_blank\">Business Wire<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multinational telephone and technology company IDT Entertainment, the parent company of Anchor Bay Entertainment and several special effects studios, has purchased Manga Entertainment. &#8220;In a little more than two years IDT Entertainment has established itself as a worldwide entertainment leader,&#8221; said Jim Courter, IDT&#8217;s CEO. &#8220;IDT Entertainment leads the world in primetime broadcast animation programming, [&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-7309","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\/7309","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=7309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}