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In October 2001 4Kids and Nintendo signed a five-year merchandising and TV agreement outside Japan, running to 31 December 2005; Pokémon was not affected

10 October 2001

ReportedA company press release, reported by a fan news site.

Found in one pass only. The research team reads every source twice, independently; this record turned up in one reading but not the other, so treat it as less certain than its grade.

How it’s built

  1. Reported by Nintendo World Report, carrying 4Kids’ press release of 10 October 2001.

What we assumed

Nothing. The figure is used as published.

Sanity check

Pokémon was covered by separate deals between 4Kids and The Pokémon Company, so this says nothing about Pokémon terms.

Where it comes from

4Kids and Nintendo go long term Nintendo World Report (4Kids press release 2001-10-10) · 11 October 2001 Open the original ↗

The line in the source

a long-term agreement expiring December 31, 2005

Related figures

The same measure, other periods