About: Does Disney own the Muppets   Sponge Permalink

An Entity of Type : owl:Thing, within Data Space : 134.155.108.49:8890 associated with source dataset(s)

Check out Disney Ownership on Muppet Wiki. Yes, pretty much. Here's how ownership breaks down, along with the date the relevant company acquired control: * Sesame Workshop: Sesame Street Muppets (Dec 2000) * Disney: All other Muppets, Bear in the Big Blue House (Feb 2004) * Henson family: Everything else, including the Creature Shop, Fraggle Rock, movies like Labyrinth, the Hoobs, etc (May 2003) It's interesting to compare the various press releases as the Henson family lost, gained, and again gave up control:

AttributesValues
rdfs:label
  • Does Disney own the Muppets
rdfs:comment
  • Check out Disney Ownership on Muppet Wiki. Yes, pretty much. Here's how ownership breaks down, along with the date the relevant company acquired control: * Sesame Workshop: Sesame Street Muppets (Dec 2000) * Disney: All other Muppets, Bear in the Big Blue House (Feb 2004) * Henson family: Everything else, including the Creature Shop, Fraggle Rock, movies like Labyrinth, the Hoobs, etc (May 2003) It's interesting to compare the various press releases as the Henson family lost, gained, and again gave up control:
dcterms:subject
dbkwik:answers/pro...iPageUsesTemplate
abstract
  • Check out Disney Ownership on Muppet Wiki. Yes, pretty much. Here's how ownership breaks down, along with the date the relevant company acquired control: * Sesame Workshop: Sesame Street Muppets (Dec 2000) * Disney: All other Muppets, Bear in the Big Blue House (Feb 2004) * Henson family: Everything else, including the Creature Shop, Fraggle Rock, movies like Labyrinth, the Hoobs, etc (May 2003) Before February 2000, the Henson company was independent. In February 2000, the German company EM.TV bought the Muppets. They turned around and sold the rights to the Sesame Street characters to Sesame Workshop (formerly Children's Television Network). EM.TV proceeded to utterly collapse and sold the Muppets back to the Henson family in May of 2003, for about the value they bought it. Henson then sold the rights to the Muppets (and Bear in the Big Blue House) to Disney in February 2004. It's interesting to compare the various press releases as the Henson family lost, gained, and again gave up control: Disney worked with the Hensons even before the 2004 deal. As far back as 1989, the Walt Disney Company entered into negotiations to acquire The Jim Henson Company (then Jim Henson Productions) and the Muppets. Jim Henson died during the negotiations, and the deal eventually fell through. However, the JHC and Disney continnued to work together, such as for the (wonderful) MuppetVision 3-D at Disney/MGM studios in Orlando and at Disney's California Adventure in Anaheim. Presumably, we'll now see even more along these lines.
Alternative Linked Data Views: ODE     Raw Data in: CXML | CSV | RDF ( N-Triples N3/Turtle JSON XML ) | OData ( Atom JSON ) | Microdata ( JSON HTML) | JSON-LD    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3217, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), Standard Edition
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2012 OpenLink Software