Leonine Holding
German media company
Leonine Holding GmbH, also known as LEONINE Studios and formerly known Tele München Group, LLC (German: Tele München Gruppe; TMG), is a German media production and distribution company that is based in Munich and since April 2024, it has been owned by Mediawan.
The activities of Leonine include trade in licenses, investments in television and radio stations and distribution and production of television films and movies.
Leonine Studios produced and distributed their feature films, international television series, entertainment & infotainment formats and social media content either in-house or to other studios for social media channels. Their own production labels included Odeon Fiction, Madame Zhang Production, SEO Entertainment, W&B Television and Wiedemann & Berg Film Production.
History
Tele München Group
The Tele München GmbH was founded on April 27, 1970, by author and producer Walter Ulbrich in order to produce programming dedicated to events for German public television which they made their first production of Jack London's classic The Sea Wolf. It was purchased in 1977 by Herbert Kloiber and his business partner Fritz Buttenstedt. In 1980, the Tele München Group launched & founded their own theatrical distribution subsidiary and was named Concorde Filmverleih (Concorde film distribution) to distribute movies to German cinemas nationwide and a year later in 1981, the company acquired along with the cinema operator Hans-Joachim Flebbe several movie theaters in Hamburg, Berlin and Braunschweig.
TMG was partner at the television station Sat.1 in 1985; after a year, the company sold its shares and started the TV station musicbox. In the same year, TMG took over the Munich private radio station Radio Xanadu, which was later renamed to Radio Energy.
In 1987, Silvio Berlusconi’s company Fininvest acquired 50 percent of musicbox.
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