Also an odd note, when the deal is down, this will separate the ownership of Peanuts from Strawberry Shortcake for the first time since 2015 when Iconix bought the latter. That was always a funny period that 80% of Peanuts was owned by a company that owns Mudd Jeans, Ecko Unltd, London Fog and many other fashion brands.
Sony Entertainment Music Japan was an interesting purchaser in the first place, when Wild Brain sold part of their stake to also help debt (probably from when DHX was eating up stuff). It also seems that Sony is willing to be holding this knowing they can't just do anything with the Peanuts characters without family consent. Wild Brain seemed to want to avoid American-owned media companies, they know ball, good work to them.
The Apple TV deal gets to stay in place, it would be wrong in terms of deal making to pull it just because ownership change, though it will be interesting in like 2030, would they even decide to go back to broadcast TV? (whatever is left of it, especially if Nexstar gets to destroy it and whatever else is going on , or if the NFL leaves , it's doomed) it would have been 10 years since they broadcasted on regular TV, that's a long time, there's going to be kids born and alive that never knew Peanuts were on television and because it's Apple TV ( Plus) they might have not really seen them there too since it's a lesser used (though apparently more viewer minutes than P+ lol) service. I think there was misstep made in 2020, where they should have had a dual deal with a broadcast network and the streaming deal, but it's like how the MLS made a mistake too and kind of hurt the viewing of their sport.
Sony Entertainment Music Japan was an interesting purchaser in the first place, when Wild Brain sold part of their stake to also help debt (probably from when DHX was eating up stuff). It also seems that Sony is willing to be holding this knowing they can't just do anything with the Peanuts characters without family consent. Wild Brain seemed to want to avoid American-owned media companies, they know ball, good work to them.
The Apple TV deal gets to stay in place, it would be wrong in terms of deal making to pull it just because ownership change, though it will be interesting in like 2030, would they even decide to go back to broadcast TV? (whatever is left of it, especially if Nexstar gets to destroy it and whatever else is going on , or if the NFL leaves , it's doomed) it would have been 10 years since they broadcasted on regular TV, that's a long time, there's going to be kids born and alive that never knew Peanuts were on television and because it's Apple TV ( Plus) they might have not really seen them there too since it's a lesser used (though apparently more viewer minutes than P+ lol) service. I think there was misstep made in 2020, where they should have had a dual deal with a broadcast network and the streaming deal, but it's like how the MLS made a mistake too and kind of hurt the viewing of their sport.
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