Turner Broadcasting System and Amazon.com have banded to make episodes of hit Cartoon Network and Adult Swim shows available on Amazon’s new digital video download service, dubed Amazon Unbox. Content currently available through the distribution deal include Cartoon Network’s Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends, Johnny Bravo, The PowerPuff Girls and Codename: Kids Next Door, and Adult Swim’s Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Sealab 2021.
‘Our partnership with Amazon.com is expanding from strictly providing fans with the option of purchasing Cartoon Network and Adult Swim DVDs to providing them with the additional choice of purchasing a digital download of this content,’ says Dennis Quinn, exec VP of business development for TBS. ‘Turner Broadcasting’s distribution deal with Amazon.com displays how we are utilizing new platforms to further expand the powerful brands of Cartoon Network and Adult Swim.’
‘As a 24-hour network, our mission is to provide our fans with round-the-clock access to our programming’and we are thrilled that viewers can now download their favorite Cartoon Network and Adult Swim shows from Amazon.com, slip them into their pockets, and take them anywhere’ adds John Friend, senior VP of Cartoon Network Enterprises, the global licensing and merchandising arm of Cartoon Network. ‘Being a part of this 360 degree marketplace is critical. It creates the awareness and emotional connection we need to make our products and our programming resonate on air or on shelf.’
Amazon’s Unbox also offers a number of other animated favorites, including Comedy Central’s South Park and Drawn Together, and Nickelodeon’s Dora the Explorer, Danny Phantom and Avatar The Last Airbender. Also available for download are episodes of the Hanna-Barbera classics The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Scooby-Doo, Huckleberry Hound, Jonny Quest and The Perils of Penelope Pitstop. You can access the Unbox at www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/16261631/sr=53-1/qid=1157744108/ref=tr_307911/102-8239353-8582516.
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