Sony Wonder is a children and family's music and home video arm of Sony Music Entertainment, founded in 1991. The division once distributed material from Sesame Workshop and Classic Media . SW distributed Nickelodeon videos from 1993 to 1996 until Viacom's purchase of Paramount, which left Nickelodeon videos distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment . They also distributed releases from Random House's home video division from 1995 to 2007. In 1995, Sony Wonder and Sony Pictures Entertainment joined forces with the Jim Henson Company by releasing new movies with Columbia Pictures and... TriStar Pictures and new sing-along-songs on videocassette and DVD. In 1998, SW bought Sunbow Productions and it was later bought by TV-Loonland in 2000. On March 13, 2007, Sony BMG announced that it was shutting down Sony Wonder to focus on its core music business. However on June 21, 2007, it was announced that SW became a division of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment as its kids’- and family-entertainment label. CM's, Sesame Workshop's and Random House's video deals were sold to Genius Products for an undisclosed amount.
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