9 Story USA (formerly Out of the Blue Enterprises), is an American children's television production company based in New York City, founded by the co-creator of the Nickelodeon preschool live action/animated series Blue's Clues (hence the company's name) Angela C. Santomero and fellow ex-Nickelodeon executive Samantha Freeman Alpert. The company served as the producers (with DHX Media's Decode Entertainment unit) of the computer-animated children's television series Super Why! that airs on most PBS stations and on CBC Kids in Canada and Blue's Room which formerly aired on Nick Jr. Out of the Blue, along with WQED, Fred Rogers Productions, and 9 Story Media Group, also produces a Flash-animated spin-off of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, entitled Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, which debuted on PBS Kids affiliates on September 3, 2012. It also produced Wishenpoof! and Creative Galaxy with Amazon Studios for Amazon Video.

9 Story USA
FormerlyOut of the Blue Enterprises (2005–2018)
Company typeSubsidiary
Industry
  • Animation
  • Preschool
FoundedJanuary 31, 2005; 19 years ago (2005-01-31)
Founders
Headquarters,
U.S.
Parent9 Story Media Group

On January 12, 2018, 9 Story Media Group bought Out of the Blue Enterprises. It is now a wholly owned subsidiary.[1]

Filmography edit

Show Creator(s) First aired Last aired Co-production Network
Blue's Room (season 2) Traci Paige Johnson
Angela C. Santomero
August 6, 2006 (2006-08-06) March 29, 2007 (2007-03-29) Nickelodeon Animation Studio Nickelodeon
Super Why! (season 1) Angela C. Santomero September 3, 2007 (2007-09-03) May 12, 2016 (2016-05-12) Decode Entertainment C.O.R.E. Toons PBS (U.S.)
CBC Kids (Canada)
Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood September 3, 2012 (2012-09-03) present (present) WQED
Fred Rogers Productions
9 Story Media Group
PBS
Creative Galaxy April 19, 2013 (2013-04-19) June 4, 2019 (2019-06-04) Amazon Studios
9 Story Media Group
Amazon Video
Wishenpoof! February 5, 2014 (2014-02-05) May 9, 2019 (2019-05-09) DHX Media
Amazon Studios
Charlie's Colorforms City March 22, 2019 (2019-03-22) present DHX Media
9 Story Media Group
Netflix
Blue's Clues & You! Traci Paige Johnson
Todd Kessler
Angela C. Santomero
November 11, 2019 (2019-11-11) present (present) Nickelodeon Animation Studio
Brown Bag Films
9 Story Media Group
Nickelodeon
Nick Jr. Channel
Hello, Jack! The Kindness Show Jack McBrayer
Angela C. Santomero
November 5, 2021 (2021-11-05) October 7, 2022 (2022-10-07) Jax Media
9 Story Media Group
Brown Bag Films
Apple TV+

References edit

  1. ^ Dickson, Jeremy (2018-01-12). "9 Story bolsters US presence with Out of the Blue buy". Kidscreen. Archived from the original on 2021-02-25.

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