Entertainment News for Late July 1982
Oakland Raiders win their year-long lawsuit against the NFL. The team will be allowed to relocate to Los Angeles effective immediately.
- Sports Illustrated
After years of legal limbo, Warner Bros. has acquired the rights to the Japanese anime Speed Racer for North America, the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.
- The Detroit Free Press
HBO and Disney reach a four year agreement for the pay cable channel to air the Japanese anime Urusei Yatsura, which is being dubbed in English by Disney's subsidiary 20th Century Fox. Urusei is set to debut on BBC 2 in the UK this coming September and will launch in America on HBO in the Spring of 1983.
- Radio Times
Taft spokeswoman confirms the rumored sale of Hanna-Barbera to the investment group led by Jim Henson and Michael Eisner.
- The Cincinnati Inquirer
- Sports Illustrated
After years of legal limbo, Warner Bros. has acquired the rights to the Japanese anime Speed Racer for North America, the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.
- The Detroit Free Press
HBO and Disney reach a four year agreement for the pay cable channel to air the Japanese anime Urusei Yatsura, which is being dubbed in English by Disney's subsidiary 20th Century Fox. Urusei is set to debut on BBC 2 in the UK this coming September and will launch in America on HBO in the Spring of 1983.
- Radio Times
Taft spokeswoman confirms the rumored sale of Hanna-Barbera to the investment group led by Jim Henson and Michael Eisner.
- The Cincinnati Inquirer