About HIT Entertainment
HIT Entertainment, owned by private equity investment group Apax Partners, is one of the world's leading independent children's entertainment producers and rights-owners. HIT's portfolio includes properties, such as Barney™, Bob the Builder™, Thomas & Friends™, Pingu™, Fireman Sam™, Angelina Ballerina™ and Rainbow Magic™. HIT represents Chapman Entertainment's Fifi and the Flowertots™ and Roary the Racing Car™ in North America and Japan, as well as Wallace & Gromit™, Shaun the Sheep™, Timmy Time™ and Aardman Classics from Aardman Animations. HIT also acts as a worldwide representative for The Jim Henson Company's library of classic family brands and as representative for The Wiggles® in the UK.
Launched in 1989, HIT's lines of business span television and video production, content distribution, publishing, consumer products licensing, live events and attractions and has operations in the UK, US, Canada, Hong Kong and Japan. HIT is a part-owner of US preschool channel, PBS KIDS Sprout℠, and international preschool channel JimJam, (outside of the US, UK and China).
For more information, visit http://www.hitentertainment.com.
HIT Entertainment Names Claudia Scott-Hansen Vice President, US TV Distribution
03/29/2006NEW YORK/LONDON
HIT Entertainment, one of the world's leading pre-school children's entertainment producers and rights owners, has further strengthened its management team with the appointment of Claudia Scott-Hansen to the position of Vice President, US TV Distribution. She will be based in the New York office, and will report to London-based EVP for Worldwide TV Distribution, Alison Homewood.
Scott-Hansen joins HIT from the BBC where she has spent the past 10 years in various senior management positions across TV Syndication, Licensing & Merchandising and Local Format Production. Based in New York for the past two years, she most recently held the position of Director PBS Syndication where she was responsible for the distribution of BBC programming, including children's programs, situation comedies and documentaries, to 48 PBS stations in the United States.
Prior to this role, Scott-Hansen was Head of Licensing EMEA and was instrumental in developing the brand and licensing strategy for the highly-successful children's properties Teletubbies and Tweenies into key territories and across various television platforms in the US, Italy, Germany, Middle East and South Africa.
As the Vice President, US TV Distribution, she will be responsible for all TV distribution of HIT properties into the US including Bob the Builder™, Barney & Friends™, Thomas & Friends™, Fireman Sam™, Angelina Ballerina™ and The Wiggles®.
About HIT Entertainment
HIT Entertainment, owned by private equity investment group Apax Partners since June 2005, is one of the world’s leading independent children’s entertainment producers and rights-owners. HIT’s portfolio includes internationally renowned children’s properties, such as Bob the Builder™, Barney™, Thomas & Friends™, Pingu™, Rubbadubbers™ and Angelina Ballerina™. HIT acts as a representative for The Wiggles® in the UK, US and Canada and as worldwide representative for The Jim Henson Company’s library of classic family brands, including Fraggle Rock™. HIT also owns the Guinness World Records™ publishing and television property and Fireman Sam™, a joint venture with S4C. Launched in 1989, HIT’s lines of business span television and video production (including studios in the US and the UK), publishing, consumer products licensing and live events. With a catalog of more than 1,000 hours of young children’s programming, HIT sells its shows to more than 240 countries worldwide, in more than 40 different languages and has operations in the UK, US, Canada, Hong Kong and Japan. In 2005, the Company joined Comcast Corporation, PBS and Sesame Workshop to launch PBS KIDS Sprout℠, a 24-hour digital cable channel and VOD service for preschoolers. For more information, visit www.hitentertainment.com.
