19 Entertainment

19 Entertainment

Type	Subsidiary
Industry	Entertainment
Founded	April 1985 (United Kingdom)
Headquarters	Los Angeles
Key people	Iain Pirie, President Susanne Tide-Frater, Head of Fashion Sarah Doukas, CEO, Storm Model Management Simon Fuller, Founder
Products	entertainment content, intellectual property services, American Idol/Idol series
Revenue	288.1 million USD (2008)
Operating income	75.1 million (2008)
Employees	100
Parent	CKX, Inc.
Website	19entertainment.com

19 Entertainment, founded in London, United Kingdom in 1985, and since 2010 is based in Los Angeles, United States, is an owner and producer of entertainment properties based around the areas of Music and Television, including American Idol in the United States, Pop Idol in the United Kingdom as well as versions of the Idol series in more than seventy countries around the world, and So You Think You Can Dance.

In 2009 19 announced the purchase of London based Storm Model Management,^[1] one of the world's top modeling agencies.

In March 2005, 19 Entertainment founder Simon Fuller sold the group to Robert Sillerman's CKX, Inc. in a cash and stock deal worth $210 million.^[2] Fuller remained in his role as CEO and became a director of CKX, effectively co-ordinating all creative aspects of the CKX business until January 2010 when at coming to 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, Inc. announced its intention to shift 19 to becoming a US business focusing solely on the 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 19 Entertainment became based from its Los Angeles office.

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, Carrie Underwood, David Cook, and others and Roland Mouret and Victoria Beckham's fashion businesses.

Current 19 Recordings artist roster

• Will Young (19/RCA Records)
• Kelly Clarkson (19/RCA)
• Guy Sebastian (19/Sony Music Australia)
• Alexander Klaws (19/Sony Music Germany)
• Daniel Lindström (19/LaLuff)
• Agnes Carlsson (19/Geffen Records)
• Ruben Studdard (19/Shanachie)
• Clay Aiken (19/Decca)
• Fantasia Barrino (19/RCA)
• Jennifer Hudson (19/RCA)
• Carrie Underwood (19/Arista Nashville)
• Taylor Hicks (19/Modern Whomp Records/S)
• Katharine McPhee (19/Columbia Records)
• Kellie Pickler (19/BNA Records)
• Chris Daughtry (19/RCA)
• Jordin Sparks (19/RCA)
• Blake Lewis (19/Tommy Boy Entertainment)
• David Cook (19/RCA)
• Allison Iraheta
• Kris Allen (19/RCA)
• Adam Lambert (19/RCA)
• Danny Gokey (19/RCA Nashville)
• Orianthi (19/Geffen)
• Casey James (19/BNA)
• Pia Toscano (19/Interscope Records)
• Scotty McCreery (19/Mercury Nashville/Interscope)
• Lauren Alaina (19/Mercury Nashville/Interscope)
• Haley Reinhart (19/Interscope)
• James Durbin (19/Wind-up Records)

See also

• American Idol
• CKX, Inc.
• Simon Fuller

References

External links

• CKX, Inc Investor website
• Storm Models