Rysher Entertainment was an American film and television production company and distributor founded in 1991. In 1993, Rysher Entertainment was acquired by Cox Enterprises and subsequently closed in 1999. That same year, Viacom entered into an agreement with Cox Enterprises for distribution rights to the Rysher library, which currently lie with Viacom's successor, Paramount Skydance – specifically its subsidiaries Paramount Pictures and CBS Media Ventures. Ownership of the company's assets changed hands multiple times over the 2000s before finally being acquired by Vine Alternative Investments in 2011.
History
Keith Samples established the company in April 1991,[1] as an independent company, whose sole product had been the distribution of the series Saved by the Bell (at the time, NBC could not distribute it in syndication due to fin-syn rules). Encouraged by the success, it made its second move with their first foray into animation, Captain N and the Video Game Masters, the off-net syndicated version of the DIC Entertainment