{"id":9900,"date":"2006-02-16T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-16T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2006\/02\/16\/navarre-clarifies-funimations-under-performance\/"},"modified":"2006-02-16T10:15:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-16T14:15:00","slug":"navarre-clarifies-funimations-under-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/navarre-clarifies-funimations-under-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Navarre Clarifies FUNimation&#8217;s &#8220;Under Performance&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/article.php?id=8382\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Network<\/a>, Navarre&#8217;s recent shareholder conference call clarified the recent announcement that FUNimation was performing &#8220;below expectations.&#8221; Navarre President Cary Deacon explained that FUNimation&#8217;s distribution of anime to home video has been performing above expectations while revenue from FUNimation&#8217;s non-anime home video, merchandise licensing, and sub-licensing for television broadcast has been performing below expectations. As a result, FUNimation has invested nearly $8 million into licensing new anime properties and will re-focus its attention on the anime home video market.<\/p>\n<p>Deacon also explained that the FUNimation Channel television network has not been optioned by any American broadcaster yet, but the FUNimation Channel is &#8220;5-year plan, not a 12-month plan,&#8221; so the network&#8217;s development is progressing as estimated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Anime News Network, Navarre&#8217;s recent shareholder conference call clarified the recent announcement that FUNimation was performing &#8220;below expectations.&#8221; Navarre President Cary Deacon explained that FUNimation&#8217;s distribution of anime to home video has been performing above expectations while revenue from FUNimation&#8217;s non-anime home video, merchandise licensing, and sub-licensing for television broadcast has been performing [&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-9900","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\/9900","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=9900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}