Talk:Nickelodeon Home Entertainment

Dora the Explorer

I wonder if many employees at duplication/replication plants operated by Deluxe Global Media Services, Cinram International and/or Technicolor Video/CD/DVD Services were disgusted having to watch Dora the Explorer while duplicating/replicating VHS tapes and DVDs of the show. 69.85.235.224 17:17, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

Yo Gabba Gabba!

Even though the original "Yo Gabba Gabba!" show was broadcast on Nickelodeon (as part of its Nick Jr. block) from 2007 to 2011 and the Nick Jr. Channel from 2011 to 2015, the show was never officially co-produced by Nick Jr. Productions or Nickelodeon Productions - the latter which got folded completely into the latter in Q1 2009.

In addition to the broadcast rights, Nickelodeon once held the distribution, home entertainment and digital/streaming rights to the show, at least until the late 2010s. Wildbrain Entertainment, Inc. (formerly known as Wild Brain), which co-produced and co-owned the show, was acquired by DHX Media, Ltd. in Q4 2010, becoming a subsidiary of that company, only to be folded completely into DHX in the mid-2010s. DHX was later renamed WildBrain Ltd. in Q4 2019. NCircle Entertainment (the children's division of Alliance Entertainment Corporation) acquired the home entertainment rights to some later seasons of the show, as well as some of the show's specials, sometime in 2011/early 2012.

The copyrights to the franchise were co-owned by GabbaCaDabra LLC (currently known as Yo Gabba Gabba! LLC) and Wildbrain. GabbaCaDabra LLC also owned the trademark rights to the franchise's name.

The cancellation of the show had to do with the creative differences between GabbaCaDabra LLC and Nickelodeon. Nickelodeon wanted the rights to the show, but Christian Jacobs, who co-created the show (in addition to co-founding GabbaCaDabra LLC and The Magic Store Productions, the latter which also co-produced the show, in association with the former) with Scott Schulz, did not want changes made to his masterpiece if he were to give the rights away.

The 2008 "Yo Gabba Gabba!: The Dancey Dance Bunch" DVD had a copyright/trademark notice that erroneously says: "© 2008 Viacom International Inc. All Rights Reserved. NICKELODEON, NICK JR., YO GABBA GABBA! and all related titles, logos and characters are trademarks of Viacom International Inc. TM & © 2008 GabbaCaDabra LLC." (That DVD was also the only Nickelodeon-era "Yo Gabba Gabba!" main release DVD with a Nickelodeon "Haypile" logo added at the end of each episode)

Meanwhile, the 2009-2012 DVDs of the show have a corrected copyright/trademark notice saying: "© [2009, 2010, 2011 or 2012] Viacom International Inc. All Rights Reserved. NICKELODEON, NICK JR. and all related titles, logos and characters are trademarks of Viacom International Inc. Yo Gabba Gabba! TM & © [2009, 2010, 2011 or 2012] GabbaCaDabra LLC." (Even though Nickelodeon had its logos revamped in Q4 2009, some 2010 Paramount Home Entertainment-distributed Nickelodeon DVDs, including some 2010 Nickelodeon-era "Yo Gabba Gabba!" main release DVDs, still used the 2008 Nickelodeon "Lightbulb" logo at the end of each episode included on the DVD)

69.85.235.224 17:05, 9 February 2024 (UTC)