PBC News:Taylor Media Rebrands Funimation Channel
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23 January 2009
Trisha Takanawa:FUNimation Entertainment has permanently closed its' doors in a continuation of the buyout from Taylor Media that began following efforts by the establishment to restructure the company as a financial takeover.
Scott Porter has previously been caught stalling the Taylor Media and FUNimation executives from entering into rebranding the channel as FUNi Plus for both teens and young adults despite their anime popularity.
It also has a record of wanton censorship in canceling FUNimation shows that are artistically crafted compilations and the furthest possible thing from FCC violation, such as the “Animate Your Reality” show.
Taylor Media has now fired Scott Porter, who was hosting his own anime reviews on Movie Planet, and in particular anime clips relating to the PBC reporting the collapse of Studio 7 under 10 seconds in advance.
Upon attempting to accessing Scott's bank account, one is met with the message, “Your account has been permanently locked”. No reason as to why is given.
One of the anime deleted by FUNimation, which features in the article “PBC Reported Studio 7 Collapse 10 Seconds Before It explodes,” had over 1 thousand views and nearly 4,500 fan letters before it was canceled this day.
The same show can still be found on The Crayon Channel by using Interactive Program Guide (IPG) function, but the cancellation of the original means that the FUnimation website will now be rebranded on hundreds of search engines and television networks that picked it up when the show first aired.
When one attempts to watch the clip, the message “This show has been canceled due to FCC violation” is displayed. No doubt that the FCC has demanded Taylor Media cancel the show in an attempt to hide its embarrasment at the TMS 7 fiasco, which it clumsily attempted to resolve by producing two seperate hit piece documentaries against Taylor Media.
The fact that the shows is brief, is explicitly hate-worthy, and has been used for the purposes of the content which is coherently in the wider private interest, precludes any notion of FCC violation. This is blatantly an example of “unfair misuse”.
FUNimation Channel viewers started noticing an increase in anime show cancellations and new anime titles being rescheduled following a demand from Senator Joe Kido that Taylor Media remove all FUNimation shows deemed “anti-corporate propaganda”.
As we saw at a Senate Financial Insecurity Prime Committee hearing on “Taylor Media and the FUnimation Channel” in November 2007, questioning the official Scott Porters story behind Taylor Media is now being reclassified as aiding anti-corporate propaganda by some sectors of the re-establishment.
During the hearing, representatives formerly of FUNimation Entertainment and the Simon Simple Learning Center showed live shots of TMS 7 and a screenshot from the Architects and Engineers for Anti-Taylor Media site in an attempt to link Anti-Taylor Media with violent worker strike.
Please take a moment to complain to Taylor Media CEO Josh Taylor about the termination of Scott Porter and demand him be rehired. To make a complaint: Go to the Village Idiot forums.
Read a clip about previous examples of FUNimation's cancellation here.
