From: ejanss1@nospam.verizon.net   
      
   Jim Ellwanger wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   >>Although I'm wondering whether this news is actually a signal that   
   >>Warner might be dismantling "their" version of Rhino, as it's cheaper   
   >>than re-licensing all those Monkees, Krofft and GIJoe licenses they   
   >>never bothered to acquire in the first place, and which don't seem to be   
   >>on shelves at the moment anyway...   
   >   
   > There isn't much to dismantle -- at this point, Rhino is basically just   
   > a logo that Warner slaps on their reissue CDs and some DVDs.   
      
   However, the evidence would be starting to mount:   
   ----   
   "Rhino (and their distributors, Ryko and WEA) are currently owned by the   
   Warner Music Group, which was spunoff from Time/Warner, and currently   
   bills themselves as the only stand-alone music company to be publicly   
   traded in the US.  Rhino has moved away from the TV-DVD field in recent   
   years, and focused on musical entries.  Rhino's final DVD's of this   
   particular show will be their Feb. 5th MST3K Vol. 10.2."   
   ----   
      
   Also mentions that Shout "hasn't decided" whether to go for singles or   
   boxsets...But they're big boys now, they're used to boxsets ("Freaks &   
   Geeks" isn't going to turn them back to singles, although "Punky   
   Brewster" might), and they've been down that singles road before with   
   MST3K.  They know better.   
      
   Derek Janssen   
   ejanss1@verizon.net   
      
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