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BKN is also the callsign of a TV station in Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia.


BKN (the Bohbot Kids Network), formerly known as Amazin' Adventures and Bohbot Productions, was a syndicated
Television syndication

In broadcasting, syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast radio shows and television shows to multiple individual stations, without going through a broadcast network....
 animation
Animation

Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. It is an optical illusion of Motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in a number of ways....
 block starting from 1990
1990 in television

The year 1990 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 1990.For the American TV schedule, see: 1990-91 United States network television schedule....
. It was created and distributed by Bohbot Entertainment, an animation production company founded by Allen J. Bohbot, and based in Germany.

Most of the animated television series featured on BKN were created and or produced by Bohbot, but also featured third party programming from DiC Entertainment
DiC Entertainment

DIC Entertainment was an international United States film and television production company which was founded in 1971 as DIC Audiovisuel by Jean Chalopin in Luxembourg, as a subsidiary of Radio-Television Luxembourg ....
, and Sony Pictures Television
Sony Pictures Television

Sony Pictures Television, Inc. is an United States television production company/distribution company. It is a subsidiary of Sony Pictures Entertainment....
 (in the case of Extreme Ghostbusters
Extreme Ghostbusters

Extreme Ghostbusters is an animated television series and a follow-up to the animated series The Real Ghostbusters. It is a part of the film/TV Ghostbusters franchise....
 and the second and third seasons of Jumanji
Jumanji (TV series)

Jumanji is an United States animated television series that was mostly based on the Jumanji . Jumanji ran for three seasons from 1996 in television-1999 in television....
).

FOX
Fox Broadcasting Company

The Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox and stylized as FOX, is an United States television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation....
, UPN
UPN

United Paramount Network was a television network that broadcast in over 200 markets in the United States and that was in production for over eleven years....
 and WB Affiliates aired this animated block from 1995
1995 in television

The year 1995 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 1995.For the American TV schedule, see: 1995-96 United States network television schedule....
 to 2000
2000 in television

The year 2000 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 2000.For the American TV schedule, see: 2000-01 United States network television schedule....
 (it also aired nationally for a brief time on the Sci-Fi Channel
Sci Fi Channel (United States)

Sci Fi Channel, often stylized SCI FI Channel, is an American cable television channel, launched on September 24, 1992, that specializes in science fiction, fantasy, horror film, and paranormal programming....
).

The BKN name is now used as the company's corporate name (BKN International AG), with its programming available for broadcast to various networks around the world.






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BKN is also the callsign of a TV station in Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia.


BKN (the Bohbot Kids Network), formerly known as Amazin' Adventures and Bohbot Productions, was a syndicated
Television syndication

In broadcasting, syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast radio shows and television shows to multiple individual stations, without going through a broadcast network....
 animation
Animation

Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. It is an optical illusion of Motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in a number of ways....
 block starting from 1990
1990 in television

The year 1990 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 1990.For the American TV schedule, see: 1990-91 United States network television schedule....
. It was created and distributed by Bohbot Entertainment, an animation production company founded by Allen J. Bohbot, and based in Germany.

Most of the animated television series featured on BKN were created and or produced by Bohbot, but also featured third party programming from DiC Entertainment
DiC Entertainment

DIC Entertainment was an international United States film and television production company which was founded in 1971 as DIC Audiovisuel by Jean Chalopin in Luxembourg, as a subsidiary of Radio-Television Luxembourg ....
, and Sony Pictures Television
Sony Pictures Television

Sony Pictures Television, Inc. is an United States television production company/distribution company. It is a subsidiary of Sony Pictures Entertainment....
 (in the case of Extreme Ghostbusters
Extreme Ghostbusters

Extreme Ghostbusters is an animated television series and a follow-up to the animated series The Real Ghostbusters. It is a part of the film/TV Ghostbusters franchise....
 and the second and third seasons of Jumanji
Jumanji (TV series)

Jumanji is an United States animated television series that was mostly based on the Jumanji . Jumanji ran for three seasons from 1996 in television-1999 in television....
).

FOX
Fox Broadcasting Company

The Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox and stylized as FOX, is an United States television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation....
, UPN
UPN

United Paramount Network was a television network that broadcast in over 200 markets in the United States and that was in production for over eleven years....
 and WB Affiliates aired this animated block from 1995
1995 in television

The year 1995 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 1995.For the American TV schedule, see: 1995-96 United States network television schedule....
 to 2000
2000 in television

The year 2000 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 2000.For the American TV schedule, see: 2000-01 United States network television schedule....
 (it also aired nationally for a brief time on the Sci-Fi Channel
Sci Fi Channel (United States)

Sci Fi Channel, often stylized SCI FI Channel, is an American cable television channel, launched on September 24, 1992, that specializes in science fiction, fantasy, horror film, and paranormal programming....
).

The BKN name is now used as the company's corporate name (BKN International AG), with its programming available for broadcast to various networks around the world. Coming in BHD (Bohbot High-Definition)

List of shows

  • Action Man (not to be confused with the Mainframe Entertainment
    Mainframe Entertainment

    Rainmaker Animation Inc., formerly Mainframe Entertainment, Inc., is a Canada computer animation and design company based in Vancouver, British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada and Los Angeles, California, USA ....
     series)
  • Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog
    Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog

    Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog is an United States list of animated television series that was first broadcast in 1993#September, and has been running in cartoon television syndication ever since....
  • Disney's Aladdin
  • Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves: The Lost Scimitar of Arabia
  • Bad Dog
    Bad Dog

    Bad Dog may refer to:*Bad Dog *Bad Dog , an episode of Frasier*Bad Dog , a short-lived cartoon series*"Bad Dog", part of the After Dark screen-saver...
  • Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot
    Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot

    The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot is a comic book by Frank Miller and Geof Darrow and an eponymous animated television series....
  • Billy the Cat
    Billy the Cat

    Billy the Cat is the title of a Franco-Belgian comics by the Belgian St?phane Colman and Stephen Desberg, as well as an animated cartoon adaptation, available through the American Broadcasting Company, amongst others....
  • Capertown Cops
  • Captain Simian and the Space Monkeys
  • Conan the Adventurer
  • Di-Gata Defenders
    Di-gata defenders

    Di-Gata Defenders is an Canada Action film, fantasy, animated television series created by Greg Collinson with Nelvana. This show is rated Television rating system#Canadian ratings according to the Canadian TV Classification System....
  • Dork Hunters From Outer Space
  • Double Dragon
    Double Dragon (TV series)

    Double Dragon is an animated series based on the Double Dragon. The television series was produced by DiC Entertainment and ran for 26 half-hour episodes in 1993 and 1994....
  • Extreme Ghostbusters
    Extreme Ghostbusters

    Extreme Ghostbusters is an animated television series and a follow-up to the animated series The Real Ghostbusters. It is a part of the film/TV Ghostbusters franchise....
  • Extreme Dinosaurs
    Extreme Dinosaurs

    Extreme Dinosaurs is an American animated series from 1997 based on a toy line from Mattel starring a foursome of heroic anthropomorphic dinosaurs and their nemeses: a trio of malevolent dromeosaurids with plans for world domination....
  • Gadget Boy & Heather
    Gadget Boy & Heather

    Gadget Boy & Heather is an animated television series from DiC Entertainment. The series debuted in 1995 in first-run syndication in the United States and on M?tropole 6 in France....
  • Hurricanes
    Hurricanes (animated series)

    Hurricanes was an animated series produced by DIC Entertainment and distributed by BKN for Television syndication. The series first aired in 1993 and ended in 1997....
  • Inspector Gadget
    Inspector Gadget

    Inspector Gadget is an animated television series about a clumsy, absent-minded and oblivious detective, Inspector Gadget, who is a human being with various bionic "gadgets" built into his anatomy....
  • Jumanji (animated series, seasons 2 and 3)
    Jumanji (TV series)

    Jumanji is an United States animated television series that was mostly based on the Jumanji . Jumanji ran for three seasons from 1996 in television-1999 in television....
  • The Jungle Book (animated series, seasons 6)
  • Legend of the Dragon
    Legend of the Dragon (TV series)

    Legend of the Dragon an animated series consisting of 26 episodes followed by 13 additional episodes for a total of 39 episodes. It is produced by BKN and premiered in October 2006 as part of the Jetix block on Toon Disney....
  • King Arthur and the Knights of Justice
    King Arthur and the Knights of Justice

    King Arthur & the Knights of Justice was a Sunday morning, syndicated cartoon series which lasted for 2 seasons and was produced by Golden Films, C&D Entertainment and BKN....
  • Kong: The Animated Series
    Kong: The Animated Series

    An animated series that continues what happened after the movie King Kong. Kong had aired on BKN in 2000 in television, and was created to compete with Godzilla: The Series....
  • The Mask: The Animated Series
    The Mask: The Animated Series

    The Mask: The Animated Series is a television animated series based on the comic book superhero, The Mask, but with most of its inspiration from the The Mask ....
     (syndicated by BKN after CBS
    CBS

    CBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American radio network and television network. The name is derived from the initials of Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name....
     airing)
  • Mighty Max
    Mighty Max (TV series)

    Mighty Max is an animation action/science fiction/Horror fiction television series which aired from 1993 to 1994 to promote the United Kingdom Mighty Max toys, an offshoot of the Polly Pocket line, created by Bluebird Toys in 1992....
  • Monster Rancher (English dubbed version of Japanese anime
    Anime

    is animation in Japan and considered to be "Japanese animation" in the rest of the world. Anime dates from about 1917.Anime, in addition to manga , is extremely popular in Japan and well known throughout the world....
     series; the company's only such production)
  • Mythic Warriors: Guardians of the Legend
  • Pocket Dragon Adventures
    Pocket Dragon Adventures

    Pocket Dragon Adventures was a short-lived 1998 Broadcast syndication cartoon series, based on the Pocket Dragon character created by artist Real Musgrave, best known from Pocket Dragons figurines also based on his work....
  • Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders
    Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders

    Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders was an animated television series produced by Bohbot Productions Entertainment) with association with Hong Ying Animation and internationally syndicated by Bohbot....
     (broadcast and released in Europe as "Starla and the Jewel Riders")
  • Roboroach
    Roboroach

    Roboroach is a Canada animated television series, which ran on Jetix in Europe. It follows the story of a cockroach named Rube and his brother Reg....
  • Roswell Conspiracies: Aliens, Myths and Legends
    Roswell Conspiracies: Aliens, Myths and Legends

    Roswell Conspiracies: Aliens, Myths and Legends was an animated program, that originally aired in 1999 as part of BKN, the Television syndication's cartoon programing block....
     
  • Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles
    Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles

    Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles was a computer-generated imagery animated television series based on both Starship Troopers by Robert A....
  • Saban's Around the World in Eighty Dreams
    Around the World in 80 Dreams

    Around the World in Eighty Dreams is an France animated series with 26 episodes produced in 1992. The cartoon was localized for a Western audience by Saban Entertainment and broadcast in the United States in first-run syndication in the early 1990s as part of BKN's "Amazin' Adventures" package....
     (produced by Saban International Paris; now SIP Animation)
  • Saban's Gulliver's Travels (same as "80 Dreams")
  • Scruff
    Scruff

    Scruff may refer to:* Mr. Scruff , British DJ and artist* Scruff , a loose, non-sensitive area of skin by which a mother can carry her young...
  • Shanghai Tiger
  • Skysurfer Strike Force
    SKYSURFER Strike Force

    SKYSURFER Strike Force is an animated series that was featured on the BKN cartoon block and was produced by Ruby-Spears Productions and Ashi Productions....
  • Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM)
  • Sonic Underground
    Sonic Underground

    Sonic Underground is an list of animated television series that follows the adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog and his siblings, pink hedgehog Sonia the Hedgehog and green-hued Manic the Hedgehog....
  • Street Sharks
    Street Sharks

    Street Sharks is an United States List of animated television series about crime-fighting half-man/half-sharks similar to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles....
  • Sleeping Beauty
  • Timon and Pumbaa
    Timon and Pumbaa

    Timon and Pumbaa are a meerkat and warthog duo first introduced in The Walt Disney Company's popular 1994 animated film The Lion King. Timon was portrayed through his many appearances by Nathan Lane , Max Casella , Quinton Flynn , Kevin Schon , James Arnold Taylor while Pumbaa is voiced by Ernie Sabella and was portrayed by Tom Alan Ro...
  • Turbocharged Thunderbirds
    Thunderbirds (TV series)

    Thunderbirds is a British mid-1960s television show devised by Gerry Anderson and Sylvia Anderson and made by AP Films using a form of marionette puppetry dubbed "Supermarionation"....
     ("modernized" version of the classic British series from AP Films)
  • Ultraforce
    Ultraforce (comics)

    The Ultraforce is a fictional superhero group in Malibu Comics. Their purpose was to protect the public and keep other Ultras from getting out of line....
  • Ultimate Book of Spells
  • What-a-Mess
    What-a-Mess

    What-a-Mess is a series of children's books written by British comedy writer Frank Muir and illustrated by Joseph Wright . It was later made into an animated series in the UK in 1990 and again in 1995 by The Walt Disney Company and aired on American Broadcasting Company in the United States....
  • The Wizard of Oz
  • Zorro: Generation Z
    Zorro: Generation Z

    Zorro: Generation Z is an animated series that began in 2008, based on the character Zorro. The show has been aired in the on Pop on 7 April 2008 and then it was shown on Kix on 19 May 2008 in the United Kingdom....


Trivia

In the company's early days, its shows were bookended by a "marquee" logo with the words "Bohbot Entertainment Presents...".

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