{"id":11694,"date":"2018-10-11T09:52:50","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T13:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/blue-ant-acquires-saloon-media\/"},"modified":"2018-10-11T09:52:50","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T13:52:50","slug":"blue-ant-acquires-saloon-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/blue-ant-acquires-saloon-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Ant Acquires Saloon Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Further expanding its North American production capabilities, Blue Ant Media has acquired the Toronto-based factual outfit Saloon Media.<\/p>\n<p>Saloon Media&#8217;s credits include <em>Mummies Alive<\/em> for HISTORY (Canada), Smithsonian Channel (U.S.) and Yesterday (U.K.); <em>Tornado Hunters<\/em> for CMT; <em>See No Evil<\/em>\u00a0for ID and <em>Hunting Nazi Treasure<\/em> for HISTORY (Canada), American Heroes Channel (U.S.) and More4 (U.K.). The venture is led by CEO\u00a0Michael Kot, who was with Entertainment One before creating Saloon Media in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlue Ant Media is committed to growing its content business in both Canada and the United States,&#8221; said Sam Sniderman, executive VP of global production at Blue Ant Media. &#8220;The acquisition of Saloon Media is a key step in the execution of this strategy, as their award-winning factual content and notable creative talent fit perfectly within our content growth strategy in North America. We have long admired Michael Kot, and his team, for the quality and global reach of their programming and we are thrilled to have them as colleagues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSaloon\u2019s ambition to reach a wider audience and connect with new global business partners dovetails perfectly with Blue Ant Media\u2019s push to expand content production for world markets,&#8221; Kot said. &#8220;We\u2019re extremely excited to be part of Blue Ant\u2019s growing North American team, and on a personal note, I look forward to working once again with Michael MacMillan to make great programs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Saloon Media team also includes\u00a0executive producers Steve Gamester and Paul Kilback, and Betty Orr as head of production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Further expanding its North American production capabilities, Blue Ant Media has acquired the Toronto-based factual outfit Saloon Media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":290,"featured_media":11695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[345,1421],"class_list":["post-11694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-blue-ant-media","tag-saloon-media","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Blue Ant Acquires Saloon Media - TVREAL<\/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\/tvreal\/blue-ant-acquires-saloon-media\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Blue Ant Acquires Saloon Media - TVREAL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Further expanding its North American production capabilities, Blue Ant Media has acquired the Toronto-based factual outfit Saloon Media.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/blue-ant-acquires-saloon-media\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVREAL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-10-11T13:52:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/07\/Michael_Kot_Saloon-1018.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"552\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Mansha Daswani\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Mansha Daswani\" \/>\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\/tvreal\/blue-ant-acquires-saloon-media\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/blue-ant-acquires-saloon-media\/\",\"name\":\"Blue Ant Acquires Saloon Media - TVREAL\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2018-10-11T13:52:50+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2018-10-11T13:52:50+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#\/schema\/person\/83da304c8bad8bfdb3edd7eb47cfe5ad\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/blue-ant-acquires-saloon-media\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/blue-ant-acquires-saloon-media\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/blue-ant-acquires-saloon-media\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Blue Ant Acquires Saloon Media\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/\",\"name\":\"TVREAL\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#\/schema\/person\/83da304c8bad8bfdb3edd7eb47cfe5ad\",\"name\":\"Mansha Daswani\",\"description\":\"Mansha Daswani is the editor-in-chief and associate publisher of World Screen. 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