Echo Bridge Completes Licensing Agreements

LOS ANGELES, September 24:
Following its recent purchase of Alliance Atlantis International Distribution,
Echo Bridge Entertainment has finalized a slate of international licensing
agreements for hit series such as Degrassi and Instant Star.

In the teen category, Echo
Bridge secured a broadcast deal for the seventh season of Degrassi with France’s Virgin 17. The company also signed
licensing agreements with Virgin 17 and Italy’s Mediaset for season four of the musical drama Instant
Star. Both series air in the U.S.
on MTV Networks’ The N.

Echo Bridge sold the
popular animated series Lunar Jim
to several broadcasters, including ZDF in Germany, BBC Worldwide for their
CBeebies channel in Poland and ABC Australia. Lunar Jim currently airs on CBeebies, KI.KA, Kids CBC, Radio
Canada Television, Discovery Kids Latin America, Discovery Kids Brazil and ABC
Kids.

Additionally, re-license
agreements were concluded for season one of the CGI-animated Dragon Booster with ABC Australia, while TV2 in Norway re-licensed season two of Adventures
of Sinbad.

“We are excited with the
immediate response from broadcasters around the world to our diverse Alliance
Atlantis International Distribution catalogue of programming,” said Dan March, the
executive VP of Echo Bridge. “We now have a breadth of programming that
provides broadcasters a multitude of choices to fill all parts of their
programming schedules. In addition to the library which includes prime-time
series, factual programming, children’s programming and reality, we continue to
offer dynamic first run programming for series such as Degrassi, Jeff Ltd,
Rich Bridge Poor Bride and more.”

The April acquisition of
Alliance Atlantis International Distribution added approximately 7,500 titles
and more than 5,500 hours of programming to Echo Bridge’s existing catalogue of
more than 3,500 titles.

—By Jackie Stewart