Jon Rutherford

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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…

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Boat Rocker acquires Fremantle’s kids division

Boat Rocker Media has acquired FremantleMedia’s Kids & Family Entertainment division. The move is effective…

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Boat Rocker & Cisneros sign ‘long-term’ deal

Canada’s Boat Rocker Rights and a subsidiary of Venezuela’s Cisneros Media Distribution have signed a…

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Boat Rocker & Cisneros sign ‘long-term’ deal

Canada’s Boat Rocker Rights and a subsidiary of Venezuela’s Cisneros Media Distribution have signed a…

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Boat Rocker staffs up distribution

Fast-growing producer and distributor Boat Rocker has staffed up its rights division, adding execs including…

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Boat Rocker buys Peace Point Rights

Toronto’s Boat Rocker Media continues to buy up compatriot companies, this time acquiring Peace Point…

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Boat Rocker takes on Mountain Road library

Canadian distributor Boat Rocker Rights has secured worldwide distribution of local unscripted prodco Mountain Road…

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Boat Rocker collars Young Drunk Punk

New Canada-based distributor Boat Rocker Rights will be in Cannes with its first third-party acquisition,…

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Rutherford builds Boat Rocker rights team

The newly-established Boat Rocker Rights has appointed a VP, global sales and licensing. Gia DeLaney…

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Orphan Black studio restructures as Boat Rocker

Canada’s Temple Street Productions has created a parent unit that will house an expanded group of…

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Rutherford exits Tricon

Jon Rutherford is to leave Canada-based Tricon Films & Television, triggering a restructure that that…

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Tricon hires Saperstein to run kids division

Tricon Films & Television has recruited Frank Saperstein to run its kids and family unit….

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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…

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Content crunch – the fight for rights

As the pace of consolidation quickens, competition for rights is fiercer than ever. Stewart Clarke…

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Tricon launches kids and family division

Canada’s Tricon Films & Television has launched a new kids and family division following the…