Worldvision Enterprises

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Worldvision Enterprises logo from 1991

Worldvision Enterprises, Inc. was a US film distribution company originally founded as ABC Films , a subsidiary of ABC Television Network . The company mainly sold third-party productions.

history

The company was founded in 1957 by the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) as ABC Films . In 1971 ABC Films was split off because of the monopoly legislation. In 1973 it was renamed Worldvision Enterprises .

In the home video section they published Hanna Barbera titles and a series by Jack Nicklaus called Golf My Way .

The video section grew particularly under Taft Broadcasting in 1978. In 1988, Great American Broadcasting sold Taft's successor Worldvision to Aaron Spelling's Spelling Entertainment Group . Shortly thereafter, Spelling incorporated Worldvision into Republic Pictures ; the Spelling Entertainment Group itself was taken over by Viacom in 1995. But as a sales division it existed until 1999, the same year that Viacom announced the acquisition of its former parent company, CBS Corporation . These mergers allowed Viacom, which later renamed itself CBS Corporation, to grow into one of the largest media companies in the world.

Series distributed by Worldvision

• The Hanna-Barbera Collection, including:
  • Jonny Quest
  • Scooby-Doo
  • The Smurfs
• Casper the friendly ghost
• Our little farm
  • Bonanza
• The Aaron Spelling Collection, including
  • Beverly Hills, 90210 and Melrose Place (1990–1999)
  • Twin peaks
  • a heavenly family
  • The streets of San Francisco
• The DHX Media Collection, including
  • El Chavo animado
  • Rainbow Magic
  • Pippi Longstocking
• The Hyperion Pictures Collection, including
  • Itsy Bitsy Spider
  • Life with Louie
  • The Adventures of Hyperman
  • Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
  • The Oz Kids
  • The Proud Family
  • Da boom crew
  • Amazing stories
  • Bone Chillers
  • ARK, the Adventures of Animal Rescue Kids
• The View Askew collection, including
  • Clerks: The Animated Series
  • Comic book men
  • Spoilers
• The Disney collection, including
  • CrossGen
  • The Kingdom Keepers
  • Star darlings
  • WITCH
  • Waterfire Saga
  • The Zodiac Legacy

Worldvision and World Vision

After World Vision International sued Worldvision for trademark rights, the two agreed that Worldvision could continue to use the name from 1974, but had to use the note "Not affiliated with World Vision International, a religious and charitable organization."

Web links

• Description of the logos of Worldvision ( Memento of July 4, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
• Worldvision at IMDb

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://ponderosascenery.homestead.com/files/syndication.html
2. ↑ Entry on "Worldvision Enterprises" in the commercial register of the US state New York  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ^ Joseph Barbera: My Life in "Toons": From Flatbush to Bedrock in Under a Century . Turner Publishing , Atlanta, GA 1994, ISBN 1-57036-042-1 , pp. 191-192.
4. ↑ EMNoam: "Media ownership and concentration in America" Oxford University Press (2009), ISBN 0-19-518852-7 , p 110