Crown Media Holdings
| Subsidiary | |
| Founded |
1994 (Hallmark Entertainment) 1995 (Crown Media) 2000 (IPO)[1] |
| Founder | Hallmark Cards |
| Headquarters | Studio City, California, United States |
Key people | Bill Abbott (CEO, President) |
| Products | Hallmark Channel |
| Owner | Hallmark Cards |
Number of employees | 208(2014) |
| Website |
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Crown Media Holdings, Inc. (also known as Crown Media) is a United States media production company with corporate headquarters located in Studio City, California, and is controlled by Hallmark Cards.
Crown Media operates the Hallmark Channel and its spin-off Hallmark Movies & Mysteries in the United States, while it licenses the brand to NBCUniversal International Networks for the British channel of the same name. In 2003, Crown Media acquired The Jim Henson Company's half of Hallmark Channel in the UK, discontinuing all syndicated programming from Jim Henson Television.
On March 9, 2016, Hallmark Cards announced it was buying the remaining 3% of Crown Media Holdings from Liberty Media and taking the company private.[2] The privatization was completed later that year.
References
- ↑ Crown Media Holdings, Inc. - Investor Relations - Corporate History
- ↑ "Hallmark buys owner of Hallmark Channel". USA TODAY. Retrieved 2016-04-10.