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12/21/05 Good morning. It’s Wednesday, December 21, 2005, and this is your first early morning Kids! briefing. Interactive Television Networks, Inc. has teamed with the National Lacrosse League to launch LacrosseTV on January 1, 2006. The all-lacrosse all-the-time 24/7 TV network will air both live and archived games as well as college lacrosse games and other related content to subscribers’ via broadband internet. The network is scheduled to broadcast at least 20 live NLL games during the 2006 season. The lacrosse season officially begins December 30, 2005. And finally, LacrosseTV will also include dedicated team channels for all eleven NLL teams, which will air archived games plus team news, blogs and other team information. NEW PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT Nippon Animation Co., Ltd has acquired the TV and merchandising rights to the kid’s picture book series Penelope, by author/illustrator husband & wife team of Anne Gutman and Georg Hellensleben. The preschool animated series based on the young blue koala bear is currently in production and slated to premiere on Japanese TV in October 2006. Gutman’s other books include How to Get Rid of Your Little Brother and Hallensleben’s include Baboon, Spider Spider, And if the Moon Could Talk and Pauline, the latter which he both wrote and illustrated. Together Gutman and Hallensleben other popular picture book series includes the Gaspard and Gaspard and Lisa series. The Korea Culture & Content Agency, better known as KOCCA, announced that Character Korea Co., Ltd has sealed a deal for its character Jongno 7, with Italian-based licensing agent, The Licensing Factory. Under the agreement The Licensing Factory will represent the merchandise licensing rights for Jongno 7 across Europe, especially in Italy, Spain and Portugal. Designed by INJIS Content Studio, Jongno 7 is a fantasy village where the fairy Moll and other creatures live. Character Korea is currently producing the Jongno 7 series, a 3D TV animation (20 x 5 min) and a 3D mobile animation (100 x 1 min) that slated to be completed by May 2006. MARKETING/LICENSING THQ Inc. has introduced a new design feature that links multiple titles in its Nickelodeon videogame line-up for the PS2 that enables expanded game play and special features for gamers who own more than one of the titles. THQ’s Nickelodeon games that incorporate this special Cross Save feature include Tak: The Great Juju Challenge, SpongeBob SquarePants: Lights, Camera Pants!, Nicktoons Unite! and Barnyard based on Paramount Pictures’/Nickelodeon Movies’ upcoming theatrical release. The Cross Save is a three-tiered approach. When the memory card for the PS2 detects one of the other three saved Nickelodeon games for the first time, a new tier of bonus content will be unlocked for each game. Players will be able to access different costumes, more health, magic ability, vehicles, and so on. Publisher DH Press will publish a series of new original novels based on classic Universal Pictures movie characters from the Golden Age of horror films for a new generation. The first wave of books set to be published in 2006 will feature Dracula, Frankenstein, The Bride of Frankenstein, The Wolf Man, The Mummy, and The Creature from the Black Lagoon. The initial releases coming out in January 2006 will be Dracula: Asylum and Wolf Man: Hunter’s Moon. DH Press is Dark Horse Comics’ newest prose-publishing venture. ZKid Network Co., has inked a deal to offer girl kids/tweens-targeted digital content to Club Libby Lu, a division of Saks Inc. ZKid Network Co. through its relationship with Clubbin TV.Com will provide celebrity interviews, audio and video content, as well as streaming video onto the Club Libby Lu website and in-store computer kiosks. ZKid will also develop a promotional jingle for Club Libby Lu. Additionally, once a month ZKid will deliver an email to Club Libby Lu’s age appropriate data base of Clubbin TV.Com promoting services, events and products of Club Libby Lu. ZKid will be paid $54,000 for providing these services to Club Libby over a 6 month time period. The contract begins this month and runs through May, 2006, with an option to be extended. The Singing Machine Company has signed a 3-year licensing agreement with the Australian kid’s series Hi-5, to produce and distribute karaoke software, including compact discs with graphics and music downloadable, a range of hardware products, and youth-oriented cassette players, CD and DVD players, and clock radios based on the Hi-5 TV show. Hi-5 debuted in Australia in 1999 on the Nine Network. The series currently airs around the world in some 83 countries including here in the US, weekdays on TLC and Discovery Kids’ as part of the Ready Set Learn! programming line-up. STONE SOUP Sometimes all press doesn’t feel like good press, and that was the case for Nintendo Pokemon USA when researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in NY began using the acronym of “POKEMON” for a cancer gene, rather than calling it by its technical, read: long and drawn out Latin name, POK erythorid myeloid ontogenic. Since the first usage of the Pokemon acronym in association with the cancer gene in a science journal, there have been any number of articles that take the obvious jabs at the connection of Pokemon to the disease. Animated brand Pokemon USA has been on the medical center to drop the use of its brand, which included the threat of legal action. Though it might seem a bit of an over-reaction, you will recall that Pokemon has had its brush with a medical related controversy some years ago when it was claimed that a specific episode of a Pokemon series caused some kids to have epileptic seizures. The end result of the Pokemon gene fiasco? POK erythorid myeloid ontogenic is no longer known as Pokemon, but rather as Zbtb7, which by the way would be a great name for a Sci-Fi TV series … or not. EXECUTIVE MOVES WEA Corp., Warner Music Group Corp.’s US sales and distribution company has undergone a strategic reorganization. Over the past several years, WEA Corp.’s role has grown to include the oversight of its independent distribution network, its incubator initiative, a digital-only label, and the e-Commerce group, as well as the global management and distribution of WMG’s digital assets. The new WEA structure will encompass four units, each of which will report into John Esposito, President/CEO, WEA. Asylum and East West, WMG’s incubator labels, and Alternative Distribution Alliance (ADA) will continue to report directly to Esposito and are not impacted by today’s announcement. Additionally, exiting is EVP/Sales & Marketing, John Madison. He is headed for a position at the Entertainment Distribution Company. Madison’s position will not be filled, and there will be no staff reductions as a result of these announcements. WEA’s four new units:
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