{"id":6393,"date":"2015-06-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/2015\/06\/29\/michael-eisners-tornante-enters-jv-with-sinclair-broadcast-group\/"},"modified":"2015-06-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-29T00:00:00","slug":"michael-eisners-tornante-enters-jv-with-sinclair-broadcast-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/michael-eisners-tornante-enters-jv-with-sinclair-broadcast-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Eisner&#8217;s Tornante Enters JV with Sinclair Broadcast Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tBALTIMORE\/LOS ANGELES: The Tornante Company has formed a joint venture with Sinclair Broadcast Group to acquire, create, develop, produce and distribute first-run syndicated programming for the U.S. TV market.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe new Tornante-Sinclair venture is 50-50 owned by Tornante and Sinclair Television Group. The outfit will begin development immediately on a wide range of first-run syndication programming, promising a unique take on talk shows, game shows and court shows as well as comedy. Tornante Television will be overseeing creative development, while Sinclair&#039;s extensive distribution platform offers a significant launch pad for programming owned by the new company.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tTornante-Sinclair will be developing projects for the 2016 broadcast season. The venture will be based in Los Angeles, with a new development team that will work in tandem with Tornante&#039;s co-president Lauren Corrao.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&quot;We are thrilled to launch this new joint venture with Sinclair Broadcast Group, with whom we have been working as a licensee of <em>Judge Faith<\/em> for over a year now,&quot; said Michael Eisner, owner of The Tornante Company. &quot;When we met with David Smith, Steve Pruett&nbsp;and team it was immediately clear that they had a vision for the future of broadcasting and our intent is to pair our expertise in developing content with their distribution capabilities to create tremendous new opportunities for both parties.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&quot;Michael Eisner&#039;s impact on the television industry is legendary&mdash;having brought us many of our nation&#039;s most treasured programs for over four decades and counting,&quot; added David Smith, the president and CEO of Sinclair Broadcast Group. &quot;We are excited to further leverage and expand our exceptionally vast and diversified portfolio at Sinclair in partnership with The Tornante Company to further secure our position as a leader in the television business and deliver new high-quality programming to our viewers.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BALTIMORE\/LOS ANGELES: The Tornante Company has formed a joint venture with Sinclair Broadcast Group to acquire, create, develop, produce and distribute first-run syndicated programming for the U.S. TV market. The new Tornante-Sinclair venture is 50-50 owned by Tornante and Sinclair Television Group. The outfit will begin development immediately on a wide range of first-run syndication &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-top-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Michael Eisner&#039;s Tornante Enters JV with Sinclair Broadcast Group<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Michael Eisner&#039;s Tornante Enters JV with Sinclair Broadcast Group . 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