{"id":5065,"date":"2018-05-13T20:38:54","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T03:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=5065"},"modified":"2018-05-14T08:32:50","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T15:32:50","slug":"guess-who-just-bought-a-big-chunk-of-peanuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2018\/05\/guess-who-just-bought-a-big-chunk-of-peanuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Guess who just bought a big chunk of Peanuts??"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/amp\/news\/sony-take-185-million-stake-snoopy-ip-holder-1111503\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/amp\/news\/sony-take-185-million-stake-snoopy-ip-holder-1111503\">is Hollywood reporting<\/a> that entertainment giant Sony just bought 39% of the holding company that exists to hold the rights to Peanuts. They bought just short of half of the share that DHX Media bought a year ago. This means that the ownership breaks down like this: DHX, 41%; Sony, 39%, and the Schulz family, 20%. They paid $185 million for this chunk.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to AAUGH Blog Reader Debbie, who spotted this information while I was off at the Renaissance Faire with my crafty, costumy teenage daughter. And just as I was looking for a topic for next week&#8217;s podcast; sounds like it will be another Planet Peanuts economics podcast, right after the first one!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hollywood Reporter is Hollywood reporting that entertainment giant Sony just bought 39% of the holding company that exists to hold the rights to Peanuts. They bought just short of half of the share that DHX Media bought a year ago. This means that the ownership breaks down like this: &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schulzpeanuts-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}