founded april 1985 london united kingdom headquarters los angeles u.s.a key people simon fuller founder jason morey worldwide head of music marc graboff president core media group products entertainment content intellectual property services american idol idol series revenue 288.1 million usd 2008 operating income 75.1 million 2008 number of employees 100 parent core media group website 19entertainment . com 19 entertainment is a producer of entertainment properties for television with a focus on music . based in los angeles their contributions to the music industry include american idol in the united states pop idol in the united kingdom and versions of the idol series in more than seventy countries around the world . 19 entertainment is also responsible for the production of so you think you can dance . founded in london england in 1985 19 entertainment moved their headquarters to los angeles united states in 2010 . in 2009 the company announced the purchase of london based storm model management 1 one of the world s top modelling agencies . this business was sold back to storm s management in 2013 ending the firm s activities in fashion . in march 2005 19 entertainment founder simon fuller sold the company to robert sillerman s ckx inc. in a cash and stock deal worth 210 million . 2 subsequent to the deal fuller remained in his role as ceo of 19 entertainment and added the new role of director of ckx . in his dual role fuller was able to effectively co ordinate all creative aspects of the ckx business until january 2010 when as he approached the end of his employment contract with ckx inc. he decided to start up a new business xix entertainment while still acting as a consultant to ckx 19 and as an executive producer of 19 s shows . following this ckx announced its intention to shift 19 to becoming a us business focusing solely on american idol and so you think you can dance brands . 19 s old headquarters in battersea london became the headquarters for simon fuller s new business xix while the base for 19 entertainment was transferred to los angeles . in september 2010 much of 19 s non american idol business was sold to simon fuller s new business xix entertainment . this included 19 s non idol management clients such as david and victoria beckham andy murray annie lennox the spice girls lewis hamilton s club 7 carrie underwood david cook and others . also transferred to xix entertainment were roland mouret and victoria beckham s fashion businesses . sillerman and partners accepted an offer from apollo global management on july 21 2011 to purchase the entire stock of ckx inc and the business was re branded as core media group in 2012 with 19 entertainment becoming the group s primary west coast division . contents 1 19 television series 1.1 current series 1.2 former series 2 19 entertainment films 2.1 s club 7 tv films 3 19 recordings artist roster 4 see also 5 references 6 external links 19 television series edit current series edit so you think you can dance 2005 present former series edit miami 7 1999 l.a. 7 2000 s club 7 go wild 2000 s club search 2001 hollywood 7 2001 idol 2002 2016 viva s club 2002 american juniors 2003 all american girl 2003 i dream 2004 giving you everything 2007 little britain usa 2008 if i can dream 2010 19 entertainment films edit spice world co production with icon productions and columbia pictures 1997 seeing double co production with columbia pictures 2003 from justin to kelly co production with 20th century fox 2003 s club 7 tv films edit back to the 50s 1999 boyfriends & birthdays 1999 artistic differences 2000 christmas special 2000 19 recordings artist roster edit main article 19 recordings see also edit american idol ckx inc. simon fuller references edit fuller s 19 buys storm model agency pop idol creator simon fuller sells 19 entertainment for over 210 million external links edit core media group website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title 19 entertainment & oldid 734491215 categories television production companies of the united kingdommusic companies of the united kingdomfox entertainment grouphidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages espa olportugu s edit links this page was last modified on 14 august 2016 at 18 34 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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