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Blue Ant Media is an international producer, distributor, channel operator and gaming video content company. We own and operate numerous production companies in North America and Asia-Pacific under the Blue Ant Studios banner, creating content for broadcasters and streaming platforms in multiple genres including factual entertainment, natural history, documentary, adult animation and drama. Our distribution business, Blue Ant International, offers a substantial catalogue of content, including one of the world's largest 4K natural history offerings. Blue Ant Media operates channels on multiple continents under 14 brands including Love Nature, Smithsonian Channel Canada, BBC Earth (Canada), ZooMoo, Arcade Cloud and more. Omnia Media, our gaming video content company, has the largest gamer talent network in the world. It creates and distributes gaming video content and podcast shows across digital and OTT platforms such as YouTube, Snapchat, Facebook, and more. Blue Ant Media is headquartered in Toronto, with eight international offices in Los Angeles, Singapore, London, Dunedin, Washington DC, Sydney, Beijing and Taipei.

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December 6, 2016: Blue Ant Media and BBC Worldwide partner to bring BBC Earth to Canada.https://business.financialpost.com/news/blue-ant-media-to-launch-bbc-earth-channel-in-canada-shut-down-adventure-focused-radx June 26, 2017: Sam Sniderman joins Blue Ant Media from Pulse Filmshttps://variety.com/2017/tv/global/sam-sniderman-joins-blue-ant-pulse-films-1202478147/ September 7, 2017: Ward Platt to lead Blue Ant Media’s newly launched Global Networks armhttps://realscreen.com/2017/09/07/ward-platt-to-lead-blue-ants-newly-launched-global-networks-arm/ October 12, 2017: Blue Ant Media launched new animation production company in Canada, Look Mom! Productionshttps://playbackonline.ca/2017/10/12/blue-ant-unveils-new-animation-arm/January 8, 2018: Jamie Schouela promoted to President, Canadian Media at Blue Ant Mediahttps://playbackonline.ca/2018/01/08/jamie-schouela-upped-at-blue-ant/ March 5, 2018: Blue Ant Media Acquires Australian Geographic Magazinehttps://canadianmags.blogspot.com/2018/03/australian-geographic-acquired-by-blue.htmlOctober 10, 2018: Blue Ant Media launches North American executive production team to bolster the company’s content production in the U.S. and Canadahttps://realscreen.com/2018/10/10/blue-ant-media-builds-out-north-american-production-team/ January 9, 2018: Blue Ant Media commissions more Canadian content than ever before with its latest slate of homegrown, original series for its roster of television channelshttps://realscreen.com/2019/01/09/blue-ant-media-increases-originals-slate-for-cottage-life-makeful/ October 3, 2019: Blue Ant Media appoints Laura Michalchyschyn as COO and Co-President of LA-Based Blue Ant Studioshttps://deadline.com/2019/10/blue-ant-hires-laura-michalchyshyn-chief-creative-officer-1202749197/ December 9, 2019: Blue Ant Media named 2020’s Media Company of the Yearhttps://playbackonline.ca/2019/12/09/media-company-of-the-year-blue-ant-media-2/January 24, 2020: Beach House Pictures bolsters its executive production capacity with new hires to its management teamhttps://variety.com/2020/tv/asia/beach-house-pictures-expands-production-capacity-executive-hires-1203478706/

Updates to existing copy: - Torstar is not the majority owner, nor do they have a minority stake in the company- Michael MacMillan is controlling voting shareholder

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Blue Ant Media no longer owns the following: Choice TV (New Zealand)CinemaWorld (Asia-Pacific)HGTV (New Zealand)Antenna Pictures

Blue Ant Digital Studios is named Blue Ant Studios. They are based in Los Angeles

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Key People: Michael MacMillan, CEO & co-founderRob Chase, CFOJamie Schouela, President, Canadian MediaLaura Michalchyshyn, COO & Co-president, Content ProductionSam Sniderman, Co-president, Content ProductionSolange Attwood, EVP, International DistributionWard Platt, CEO, Kids & Global NetworksBeatrice Lee, CEO, Blue Ant Media Asia-PacificAstrid Zimmer, EVP, Legal & Business Affairs

Owner is not TorStar. Owner is Michael MacMillan, CEO & Co-Founder

A discussion is taking place to address the redirectCinemaWorld. The discussion will occur atWikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 September 21#CinemaWorld until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion._signed,Rosguill^talk16:28, 21 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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