Argosy Media

Argosy Media is an American production and distribution company. During the 1980s, a limited number of Svensk Filmindustri movies listed Argosy Media as their distributor. Argosy Media also distributed MTM shows and some shows produced by M6, DHX Fremantle, and DHX/UA Media as well.



In 1982, cartoonist Ellen Peck created the famous cat that Argosy used throughout the '80s, the '90s, half of the 2000s and late 2007 to the present day,and served as a mascot officially in 1989. Ellen Peck named the cat Aaron by the time the cat was created. Aaron (in the logos) was voiced by Ellen Peck in pre-2000, then Lewis Jones in 2000-2007, and from late 2007 to the present, he is voiced by Rick Buckley. Anyway, in 1989, TVS Entertainment bought The Argosy Entertainment Company and its subsidiaries (including MTM Enterprises) for GBP75,000,000. Argosy Media has a joint venture with DHX/UA Media, which allows Argosy Media to show DHX/UA, Stant, and M6 shows on the Argosy Network, MTM Network, and all channels that it owns, and DHX/UA to show Argosy and MTM shows on M6, Buzzr, and all channels that it owns. But, as of 1993, International Family Entertainment bought TVS Entertainment after TVS lost its ITV franchise to Meridian. However, in 1995, International Family was bought and folded into Shaw Communications, which a few years later in 1998, sold the Family Channel in the USA (not to be confused with the Canadian Family Channel) and most of the pre-1998 MTM library (except for MTM coproductions with Argosy, any other Shaw subsidiary, any company based in Canada, the BBC, any RTL or Pearson subsidiary, and any current or former ITV franchise holder) to Fox. But in 1999, Shaw spun off its media assets as Corus Entertainment, which eventually spun off its US assets (Argosy, MTM, and their related companies) into a new company, called Argosy/MTM Entertainment, in 2006.

This company was founded in March 26, 1973.