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Boat Rocker Media merges content and rights divisions
Boat Rocker Media is combining its content, distribution and brands teams together under Boat Rocker…
Boat Rocker acquires Fremantle’s kids division
Boat Rocker Media has acquired FremantleMedia’s Kids & Family Entertainment division. The move is effective…
Boat Rocker & Cisneros sign ‘long-term’ deal
Canada’s Boat Rocker Rights and a subsidiary of Venezuela’s Cisneros Media Distribution have signed a…
Boat Rocker & Cisneros sign ‘long-term’ deal
Canada’s Boat Rocker Rights and a subsidiary of Venezuela’s Cisneros Media Distribution have signed a…
Boat Rocker staffs up distribution
Fast-growing producer and distributor Boat Rocker has staffed up its rights division, adding execs including…
Boat Rocker buys Peace Point Rights
Toronto’s Boat Rocker Media continues to buy up compatriot companies, this time acquiring Peace Point…
Boat Rocker takes on Mountain Road library
Canadian distributor Boat Rocker Rights has secured worldwide distribution of local unscripted prodco Mountain Road…
Boat Rocker collars Young Drunk Punk
New Canada-based distributor Boat Rocker Rights will be in Cannes with its first third-party acquisition,…
Rutherford builds Boat Rocker rights team
The newly-established Boat Rocker Rights has appointed a VP, global sales and licensing. Gia DeLaney…
Orphan Black studio restructures as Boat Rocker
Canada’s Temple Street Productions has created a parent unit that will house an expanded group of…
Rutherford exits Tricon
Jon Rutherford is to leave Canada-based Tricon Films & Television, triggering a restructure that that…
Tricon hires Saperstein to run kids division
Tricon Films & Television has recruited Frank Saperstein to run its kids and family unit….
Tricon picks up content from Canadian producer Fusion TV
Canada-based producer and distributor Tricon Films & Television has acquired Fusion TV’s catalogue of unscripted…
Content crunch – the fight for rights
As the pace of consolidation quickens, competition for rights is fiercer than ever. Stewart Clarke…
Tricon launches kids and family division
Canada’s Tricon Films & Television has launched a new kids and family division following the…