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Shout! Factory is a home video and music company founded in 2003. Their video releases include previously released feature films, classic and contemporary TV series, animation, live music, and comedy specials. Shout! Factory also owns and operates Timeless Media Group, Biograph Records, Majordomo Records, HighTone Records, and Video Time Machine. ==History== Shout! Factory was founded in 2003 by Bob Emmer, Garson Foos and Richard Foos, three principals from Rhino Records. After selling Rhino to Warner Bros., the three set out to launch a new retro pop culture label. Their first releases included blues and jazz CDs from the Biograph label, a Fats Domino CD and DVD and several documentaries (''Superstar: The Life And Times of Andy Warhol'', ''What Happened To Kerouac?''). With the release of ''Freaks & Geeks'' in 2004, Shout! hit its stride and shifted towards a reputable and celebrated TV on DVD company. That same year, they released a brand-new CD with actor William Shatner (produced by Ben Folds) and started releasing classic ''SCTV'' box sets. In 2005, Shout! Factory obtained the rights to Herb Alpert's catalog, launching the Herb Alpert Signature Series of CDs. These included ''The Lonely Bull'', ''South of the Border'', ''Lost Treasures'', ''Whipped Cream & Other Delights'' and others. They also got the rights to talk show host Dick Cavett's library and started releasing theme sets focused on rock icons, Ray Charles (including all his visits to the show), John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and others. They also jumped into children's animation with a deal with DiC Entertainment. ''C.O.P.S. The Animated Series'' and ''Heathcliff And The Catillac Cats'' were the first releases from that deal. On the sports side, they entered into a licensing deal with Major League Baseball, releasing themed and World Series DVDs through 2010. In 2006, Shout! got the rights to Cartoon Network staple ''Home Movies'' and released each season set, and ultimately a complete series box. Other pop culture releases ensued, including a pair of ''The Electric Company'' multi-disc sets, the re-envisioned Herb Alpert's ''Whipped Cream & Other Delights Rewhipped'', a series of ''Elvira's Movie Macabre'' DVDs and the first of what would be three covers CDs with Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs, called ''Under The Covers Vol. 1''. Still earning a reputation for classic TV, Shout! acquired the rights to ''America's Funniest Home Videos'', ''That Girl'', ''Punky Brewster'' and ''The Weird Al Show'', all of which debuted in 2006. By 2007, classic TV on DVD was a major focus, with season sets of ''McHale's Navy'', ''Ironside'', ''The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet'' and themed and actor-specific editions of ''Inside the Actor's Studio''. Meanwhile, they also started releasing Mickey Hart's catalogs. In 2008, Shout! bought the Hightone Records catalog and added artists like Tom Russell, Joe Ely, and Rosie Flores to its brand. At the same time, they were ramping up their place as a children's animation destination and continuing with a TV on DVD schedule. They took over the ''Mystery Science Theater 3000'' DVD series and released a 20th Anniversary set and have continues to put out box sets of episodes never before released on DVD. It was in 2009 that Shout! reached another milestone when it struck a deal with children's TV producers Hasbro, releasing the original ''Transformers'' and ''G.I. Joe'' animated series box sets. That same year, they released their first My Little Pony DVD, ''My Little Pony: Twinkle Wish Collection''. Shout! continues to release several Hasbro properties, including the series ''My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic''. In 2012, Shout! started releasing titles by both Saban (''Power Rangers'', ''Mutant Turtles'') and Marvel (''Super Hero Squad Show'', ''Marvel Knights''). At the end of 2012, Shout! also launched a sub-label called Scream Factory, in which horror films, both new and old, were licensed from major studios like MGM, Fox and Universal. For 2014, Shout! continued to release complete-series sets of classic TV - both ''Bob Newhart: The Complete Series'' and ''Hill Street Blues: The Complete Series''. They join complete releases such as ''All In The Family'', ''Route 66'' and ''Barney Miller''. On May 8, 2014, Shout! announced their acquisition of the rights to ''WKRP in Cincinnati'', 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=WKRP in Cincinnati (1978–1982) )〕 with the intention of restoring all four seasons of the show "complete" with their original musical scores. The 2014 release was a monumental event for fans of the show since the original DVD release in 2007 had been mired in squabbles regarding music rights. On June 9, 2014, Shout! Factory announced that it had acquired the rights to the My Little Pony series and it released ''My Little Pony - The Complete Series'' on DVD on September 30, 2014. 〔('The Complete Series' of the Original '80s Cartoon! )〕 The 4-disc set contains all 65 episodes of the series. In October 2014, Shout! acquired Westchester Films, an independent film company whose library includes the films of John Cassavetes, Elia Kazan, and Orson Welles, as well as some early United Artists films that were previously owned by the films' producers. On November 10, 2015, Shout! announced that it had acquired the rights to ''Mystery Science Theater 3000'' from Best Brains Inc. and launched a "Bring Back MST3K" Kickstarter with the goal of producing up to 12 new feature length episodes of the series.〔http://deadline.com/2015/11/mystery-science-theater-shout-factory-1201617524/〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shout! Factory」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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