Genius Brands International Launches The New "Kartoon Channel!" Monday June 15 in Over 100 Million U.S. Television Households and 200 Million Mobile Devices With Over 4,000 Episodes of Family-Friendly Content - Seite 2

Heyward added: “Unlike other subscription services, Kartoon Channel! is an ad-supported service and will be 100% free, making it available to all.  We believe that is particularly meaningful in these times where many kids are home from school and summer camps, viewership is up, and parents are looking to find cost effective ways to provide positive entertainment. [The channel will go live on Monday with immediate access to the services and more rolling out.]”*

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 violence, no negative stereotypes, no inappropriate language, no degradation of the environment, and no excess commercialization. 

“We serve a very special audience and our role is not just to entertain, but whenever possible to enrich the young viewers with programs from which they can come away smarter,” said Heyward. “Warren Buffett’s Secret Millionaires Club teaches kids lessons in business.  Llama Llama, for example, is a metaphor for a single mom raising her kids, imparting strong values of self-confidence and responsibility. The series is based on the very successful franchise book series by the late Anna Dewdney and with Jennifer Garner starring in the role of Mama Llama.”

“We are thrilled to provide a smart and safe destination for kids and their families with the launch of Kartoon Channel!,” said Margaret Loesch, Executive Chairman of Kartoon Channel! “David Neuman, who oversees creative, and myself, working with General Manager Caroline Tyre, will be seeking ways to grow the channel to deliver a unique viewing experience that offers the very best in kids and family entertainment.”

*[Program schedule and lineup of content will be released Monday morning.]

About Genius Brands International
Genius 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 Stan Lee’s Superhero Kindergarten, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger; 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; entrepreneurship series Warren Buffett's Secret Millionaires Club; and Stan Lee's Cosmic Crusaders, created with Stan Lee's Pow! Entertainment. 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.