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Schulz\u2019s family retain their 20 percent interest.<\/p>\n<p>DHX Media and SMEJ have also secured a deal to extend the duration of the current licensing and syndication agency agreement with SMEJ\u2019s consumer products division, Sony Creative Products (SCP) in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Donovan, the executive chair and CEO of DHX Media, commented, \u201cThrough this transaction, we have reduced our debt while retaining control of Peanuts and strengthening our relationship with a world-leading entertainment and consumer products company. Peanuts is enormously popular around the world, and we look forward to working with Sony to continue driving growth for Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the rest of the Peanuts gang.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DHX Media has officially sold a minority stake in Peanuts to Sony Music Entertainment Japan (SMEJ).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":477,"featured_media":14688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[178,1481,3680],"class_list":["post-14687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-dhx-media","tag-peanuts","tag-sony-music-entertainment-japan","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>DHX Media Finalizes Sale of Minority Stake in Peanuts - TVKIDS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/sony-takes-minority-stake-in-peanuts\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"DHX Media Finalizes Sale of Minority Stake in Peanuts - TVKIDS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"DHX Media has officially sold a minority stake in Peanuts to Sony Music Entertainment Japan (SMEJ).\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/sony-takes-minority-stake-in-peanuts\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVKIDS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-07-23T14:24:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2018-07-23T14:52:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/07\/Peanuts-DHXMedia-718.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"338\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Sara Alessi\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Sara Alessi\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/sony-takes-minority-stake-in-peanuts\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/sony-takes-minority-stake-in-peanuts\/\",\"name\":\"DHX Media Finalizes Sale of Minority Stake in Peanuts - TVKIDS\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2018-07-23T14:24:01+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2018-07-23T14:52:23+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/#\/schema\/person\/3a30a856ec6d9cc2372bf054d26a0418\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/sony-takes-minority-stake-in-peanuts\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/sony-takes-minority-stake-in-peanuts\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/sony-takes-minority-stake-in-peanuts\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"DHX Media Finalizes Sale of Minority Stake in Peanuts\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/\",\"name\":\"TVKIDS\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/#\/schema\/person\/3a30a856ec6d9cc2372bf054d26a0418\",\"name\":\"Sara Alessi\",\"description\":\"Sara Alessi is the associate editor of World Screen. 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