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Wink Media was a light entertainment production company, owned by Laserium Holdings.
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1996-1999
In 1996, Wink Media was created as a breakaway group from the following BBC departments: Entertainment, Drama, Religion & Ethics, Radio, Children's, Music and Events, Comedy, Factual, Research & Development, genre commissioning, post-production, studios and wigs & costumes. being located in Salford, Birmingham and London. They only produced the first season of BBC Radio 4's version of the game show Mastermind, couple of episodes of Blue Peter and took part in mostly developing two well known formats: Robot Wars UK and The Weakest Link. In 1997, they created their first original game show, Telemarketee, where contestants need to come up with the best and the funniest responses to even the weirdest actions "the telemarketer" does.
In 1998, BBC announced to close down Wink Media for unknown reasons, while most of the staff in the Children's, Music and Events, Comedy, Religion & Ethics, Entertainment, Drama and Factual departments were hired by Wink. Salford and Birmingham production offices merged to form a new office in Newcastle-under-Lyme. The new Wink Media Midlands production office announced to work on factual and scripted content related to music, events, religion & ethics, nature, documentaries, comedy, drama and light entertainment.
In 1999, IMG acquired Wink Media from BBC and most of their projects got cancelled, such as a reboot of Doctor Who set to be aired in 2000.
1999-2005
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In 2000, the Midlands office in Newcastle-under-Lyme moved to Stroud, to work closer with BBC and BBC Wales.
The entire staff of the children's production division in Wink Media London was laid off in 2004, after a controversial run of the children's version of Telemarketee.
2005-2013
In 2010, Laserium Holdings acquired Wink Media.
2013-2019
In 2016, Wink Media spun it's drama departments into a new division of Laserium Entertainment, called Kite. That year, Wink Media Stroud was split and two thirds were merged into Laserium-GBC Networks Europe and the other third was merged into GBC Entertainment UK. On January 30, 2019, Wink Media closed down and its assets were transferred to Qualis Entertainment.
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Channels: Jetix (revived) • TanardoTV • TV Chiro • Atom • CNP Weather • NTN • The Malachi Channel • Lyf • Lyf Kitchen • Crow Television (80%) • SpinachTV • Channel 4 America • Nippon Commercial Network • MMG2 • Pels TV • Levibross Network • Topitoomay Channel • Topitoomay 2nd Avenue • Inch • Stand Up Comedy News Channel • Super Star Comedy • EmoTV • Living • NHK America • Rai America • First Time | NOW | The Drake Channel (Blocks) | Music Plus | Music Plus Classic Pop | France Television USA | PMG Network | TOX | Suius TV | FeralSage (FeralSage Jr.) | The Malachi Channel El Kadsre | TechStorm USA6 | PolyGram Channel | 2BS | Panda (25%) | Biggs (25%)
Television & Film Channels: FamilySounds • LSN/Screen • Toonvision Notes:
Confectionery, Foods & Refreshment: Crankle & Feench ice cream brands: RKO Consumer Foods: Others: Others: Quest Books Group (Laserium Comics (Laserium Parallel) • Quest Books)• RKO Publishing (RKO Books • RKO Comics • RKO Magazine • RKO Features Syndicate • Spoof! Magazine) Industrial:
Auto (Quest Auto Group) Quest Fashion Group: Caldor • Ames • Caldor International (Regimart Holdings Inc. (Regimart • HomeMarket) • Target (El Kadsre) • Target (Sakaria) • Target (Schelipoerys) • Sears El Kadsre) • Pikadike • RKO Food Stores
TCA Productions: TCA Television Corporation: TCA television stations: TCA Radio: TCA Publishing: TCA Toys and Merchandising Division: Other Properties:
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Television channels in Brazil: Production companies: Publishing companies: Record labels: Leisure & dining properties: Other properties: 1 Name & branding licensed from Qurate Retail Group
RKO Theme Parks Quest Real Estate Holdings Quest Cinemas CubenRocks Theaters Restaurants and cafés: 7Parks Inc. Quest Theme Parks Video Games, Electronics and 3D Animation Hollywood Video • RKO Film Festival/CubenRocks Film Festival • RKO Digital Cinema Group (RKO Digital 3D • RKO HD • Spicy 3D • Spicy HD) • Salovaara & Kosch Group • Qualis Music Group (List of labels) • EME F1 Racing Team • Noroeste Productions (Mercury Street Productions • Greeny Phatom Live) • RKO Shopping Malls • RKO Physical Therapy • RKO Hotels • RKO Theaters
Ex-RKO assets RKO Records | Radiotower Records | RKO Records Australia | RKO Classic Records | Alphabet Records | Embassy Records | Heatwave Music srl |
Sky Records | RKO-X Notes: 1 Co-owned with TMK Corp. and RKO.
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