{"id":2388,"date":"2018-05-18T10:45:10","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T14:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvcanada\/boat-rocker-buys-majority-stake-canadian-producer-insight\/"},"modified":"2018-05-18T11:25:47","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T15:25:47","slug":"boat-rocker-buys-majority-stake-in-canadian-producer-insight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvcanada\/boat-rocker-buys-majority-stake-in-canadian-producer-insight\/","title":{"rendered":"Boat Rocker Buys Majority Stake in Canadian Producer Insight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boat Rocker Media has acquired a majority stake in Insight Productions, a TV production company headquartered in Toronto, Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Insight Productions has produced a string of hits in Canada, including <em>The Amazing Race Canada<\/em>, <em>Big Brother Canada<\/em>, The JUNO Awards and <em>Top Chef Canada<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>With the investment, Insight plans to increase and diversify its content offerings and move more aggressively into digital content. It signals Boat Rocker\u2019s continued growth in the Canadian market and around the world.<\/p>\n<p>John Brunton, Insight\u2019s founder, chairman and CEO, continues to run all aspects of the company. The senior management team and showrunners remain in place, as does the entire Insight team. Barbara Bowlby, COO and president, is transitioning into retirement this year but will remain a senior advisor and shareholder of the company.<\/p>\n<p>Under the new structure, Insight will operate as an independent business unit, with Boat Rocker providing capital investment in addition to business and strategic support.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJohn and Barb have built an incredible business over the last four decades and we are proud to become partners with such pillars of the Canadian production industry,\u201d said John Young, CEO, and David Fortier and Ivan Schneeberg, co-executive chairmen of Boat Rocker Media. \u201cWe are equally excited to collaborate with some of the best showrunners and producers in Canada as Insight\u2019s incredible team continues to raise the bar with domestic and international broadcasters alike.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve had the great pleasure of counting John, David and Ivan as friends and respected colleagues for many years, so we\u2019re delighted to join forces with them and Boat Rocker,\u201d said Brunton and Bowlby. \u201cBoat Rocker\u2019s investment in our company and our team amplifies our ability to expand and diversify Insight\u2019s development slate and allows us to plunge more aggressively into the digital world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boat Rocker Media has acquired a majority stake in Insight Productions, a TV production company headquartered in Toronto, Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":2389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[128,331],"class_list":["post-2388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-boat-rocker-media","tag-insight-productions"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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