Genius Brands International “Genius Brands”
(NASDAQ: GNUS) continues to expand the footprint of its premiere
children’s entertainment destination,
Kartoon
Channel!, which launched
in June 2020, with the first television manufacturer deal finalized
with
Samsung, the world’s largest
TV manufacturer with a share of over 20% of the global TV market.
Kartoon Channel! is available for FREE on Samsung Smart TVs.
Additionally, Kartoon Channel! is now also
available on a new Android and the Android TV app, and a new
version is available to stream on Roku as well. Kartoon Channel! is
currently available across a broad spectrum of OTT, AVOD and mobile
channels, including Apple TV and iOS, Amazon Fire TV, Google Play,
Comcast, Cox, DISH, Sling TV, Xumo, and streaming on the web
via www.kartoonchannel.com.
“We are very proud of what our team has
accomplished in just three months since launching Kartoon Channel!
with distribution across a broad spectrum of platforms with new
partners being added frequently and new content coming to the
channel on a weekly basis,” commented Jon Ollwerther,
General Manager of Kartoon Channel! & EVP of Global Business
Development at Genius Brands. “Today, Kartoon Channel! and
Kartoon Classroom! are available, for free, to virtually every home
in America, with the same great user experience and user interface.
We are continuing to build unique avenues to provide a value-driven
experience to our audience of toddlers to tweens and their parents
and we are on track to achieve what we set out to do—create a
premiere entertainment and educational destination in a safe
environment to meet the needs of parents and kids.”
About Kartoon Channel!
+ Kartoon Classroom!Available in over 100M U.S.
television households and over 200M mobile devices,
The Kartoon Channel!, which is also now available on iOS,
offers access to a wide variety of Genius Brands original and
acquired family-friendly content, with more added daily,
including Babar, Angry Birds, Stan Lee’s Mighty7, Thomas
Edison’s Secret Lab, Baby Einstein, Baby Genius, Llama Llama
shorts, Warren Buffett’s Secret Millionaires Club, and
more. Additionally, Genius
Brands has added more family-friendly gaming
content, including Minecraft’s Journey to the
End and Fairy Horse Quest, Octodad, PixArk,
and Big B Roblox Challenge from Tankee. Genius
Brands will also premiere on Kartoon Channel! the
upcoming comedy-adventure series, Stan Lee’s Superhero
Kindergarten, currently in pre-production and starring Arnold
Schwarzenegger, on Kartoon
Channel! in Q1 2021.
Kartoon Channel! content has been curated
through a program code developed in consultation with Stanford
University Professor Emeritus Don Roberts, one of the world’s
leading researchers of children’s media, to ensure the delivery of
positive and purposeful content that parents can always know will
provide safe viewing for their children. The Kartoon Channel!
Content Code, under the leadership of Professor Roberts, ensures
among other things, there will be no imitatable violence, no
negative stereotypes, no inappropriate language, no degradation of
the environment, and no excess commercialization.
Kartoon Classroom! is an innovative extension of
Kartoon Channel! that features relevant and impactful STEAM-based
content (science, technology, engineering arts and math), including
programming from Genius Brands’ ‘content with a purpose’ library
such as Baby Genius (Early Development), Thomas Edison’s
Secret Lab (STEM), and Warren Buffett’s Secret
Millionaires Club (Financial Literacy). Additionally, Kartoon
Classroom! will showcase content from third party creators
worldwide, such as Baby Einstein (Early Development),
Little Smart Planet (Early Learning), I’m A
Dinosaur (Paleontology), Super Geek Heroes (Early
Learning), Counting with
Earl (Math), Giligilis (Musical Learning),
and Out of this Word (English Language). Genius
Brands will also develop new original content for the platform and
announces the first Kartoon Classroom! original series in
development, KC! Pop Quiz.
To stream Kartoon Channel! and Kartoon Classroom! for free,
download our app or visit: www.kartoonchannel.com
About Genius Brands
InternationalGenius Brands International, Inc. (Nasdaq:
GNUS) is a leading global kids media company developing, producing,
marketing and licensing branded children’s entertainment properties
and consumer products for media and retail distribution. The
Company’s award-winning ‘content with a purpose’ portfolio includes
the upcoming Stan Lee’s Superhero Kindergarten, starring Arnold
Schwarzenegger and in partnership with Alibaba; Rainbow Rangers for
Nick Jr.; Llama Llama, starring Jennifer Garner, for Netflix;
award-winning toddler brand Baby Genius; adventure comedy STEM
series Thomas Edison's Secret Lab; and entrepreneurship series
Warren Buffett's Secret Millionaires Club. Through licensing
agreements with leading partners, characters from Genius Brands’ IP
also appear on a wide range of consumer products for the worldwide
retail marketplace. The Company’s new Kartoon Channel! is available
in over 100 million U.S. television households via a broad range of
distribution platforms, including Comcast, Cox, DISH, Amazon Prime,
Sling TV, Apple TV, Roku, Amazon Fire and more. For additional
information, please visit www.gnusbrands.com.
Forward Looking Statements: Certain statements
in this press release constitute "forward-looking statements"
within the meaning of the federal securities laws. Words such as
"may," "might," "will," "should," "believe," "expect,"
"anticipate," "estimate," "continue," "predict," "forecast,"
"project," "plan," "intend" or similar expressions, or statements
regarding intent, belief, or current expectations, are
forward-looking statements. While the Company believes these
forward-looking statements are reasonable, undue reliance should
not be placed on any such forward-looking statements, which are
based on information available to us on the date of this release.
These forward looking statements are based upon current estimates
and assumptions and are subject to various risks and uncertainties,
including without limitation, our ability to generate revenue or
achieve profitability; our ability to obtain additional financing
on acceptable terms, if at all; our ability to repay our
outstanding debt; the potential issuance of a significant number of
shares to our convertible note holders which will dilute our equity
holders; fluctuations in the results of our operations from period
to period; general economic and financial conditions; our ability
to anticipate changes in popular culture, media and movies, fashion
and technology; competitive pressure from other distributors of
content and within the retail market; our reliance on and
relationships with third-party production and animation studios;
our ability to market and advertise our products; our reliance on
third-parties to promote our products; our ability to keep pace
with technological advances; our ability to protect our
intellectual property and those other risk factors set forth in the
“Risk Factors” section of the Company’s most recent Annual Report
on Form 10-K and in the Company's subsequent filings with the
Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"). Thus, actual
results could be materially different. The Company expressly
disclaims any obligation to update or alter statements whether as a
result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as
required by law.
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