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Animax Comes To Latin America
Date: 11/14/2005
Forbes reports Sony Pictures Television has launched its new 'Animax' channel for Latin America, specializing in Japanese anime series, dubbed into Spanish and Portuguese. Originally launched in Asia last year, Animax is the first channel totally dedicated to anime. 'The audience in Asia demonstrated an unprecedented rate of acceptance toward the channel,' said TC Schultz, Sony's vice president for international channels. 'The number of home subscribers has increased from one mln when it was first introduced, to 21 mln subscribers to date,' Schultz said. In a statement the company called anime 'the biggest hit in television since reality TV', generating sales of 4.5 bln usd of related merchandise, games and videos.
Source: Anime News Service