King World Productions, Inc. was a production company and a syndicator of television programming in the United States until its eventual 2007 incorporation into CBS Television Distribution. The last vestiges of this company is as a credited copyright holder for the TV show Rachael Ray. The division was started in 1964 by Charles King. It was a company that expressly handled television distribution of the classic Hal Roach Our Gang shorts. When Roach lost the rights to the name Our Gang , the shorts were retitled as The Little Rascals. It was through this acquisition that the comedy shorts... from 1929 through 1938 have been made available to audiences for the past forty years. King World later co-produced an animated version of the shorts with Hanna-Barbera. In 1982, King World formed an ad-sales barter division called Camelot Entertainment Sales.
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