Decode's Poko Travels to New Lands

DECODE Enterprises, the distribution subsidiary of DECODE Ent.'s parent company DHX Media Ltd., has scored a host of international deals for the award-winning stop-motion preschool series POKO.

Discovery Kids has acquired non-standard and standard television rights in Spanish for the U.S. for seasons 1-3, with Discovery Kids Latin America acquiring non-standard rights for season three in English, Spanish and Portuguese. DECODE has also sold all 109 episodes to Italy's RaiSat, the first 26 episodes to Polmedia's Mini Mini cable and satellite channel, and Turkish digital broadcasting platform DigiTurk has acquired season three as well as a renewal for seasons one and two. Additionally, Hong Kong's ATV has committed to series two and three, Korea's digital satellite Skylife has picked up series one and two for its Kids-Talk-Talk channel, and Pacific Bridge has obtained home video rights for Korea. In Australia, ABC2 has signed up for season two.

DECODE Enterprises represents the international rights to POKO and to all of the children and family series in the Halifax Film catalogue. The combined library of DECODE Ent. and Halifax Film features over 1150 half-hours of animation and live-action series. The DHX Media library totals more than 1700 episodes, primarily programming for children and youth.

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