19 Entertainment is the production company behind the
Idol franchise, as well as
So You Think You Can Dance, founded in 1985 by Simon Fuller. 19 Entertainment (with the rights to the shows mentioned above) was sold to CKX, Inc. in 2005 (later renamed to CORE Media Group in 2012, then Industrial Media in 2018) for $210 million. Five years later, the company moved its headquarters from London to Los Angeles. In March 2022,
Sony Pictures Television purchased Industrial Media for $350 million, with 19 Entertainment becoming a subsidiary of its nonfiction division.
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