ArgosyMTM Group/Logos

900 AD-999 AD
Oggo, the world's first corporation, was founded in what is now the United Kingdom, in 900 AD. It was mainly involved in publishing, but also had a claim to the invention of the motion picture.

999 AD-1606
Oggo was renamed as Malco in 999 AD.

1606-1903
The Calathriner family took over Malco in 1606.

1777-1830
The Saint Leah of Argosy Organization was founded in 1777 in British Oregon Country (now the US state of Washington) as a Catholic missionary organization. It was named after Saint Leah of Argosy, a female missionary who was burned at the stake in British Kilphocrya (modern Raland) because Protestant colonists believed her to be a witch.

1800-1830
Phenakistiscope Studios made early short animations using its invention, the titular Phenakistiscope.

1830-1882
In 1830, the Saint Leah of Argosy Organization took control of Phenakistiscope Studios, forming Argosy Incorporation (an ancestor of today's Argosy Animation Studios).

1875-1882
The Munsey Food Company was founded by the Munsey family in 1875.

1882-1903
In 1882, Frank A. Munsey acquired Argosy Incorporation, merged it with The Munsey Food Company, and reorganized it to focus on pulp magazines, placing the Phenakistiscope animation studio and missionary services on "indefinite hiatus". In 1900, Munsey sold his food business to Kraft to focus on his magazines.

1903-1925
In 1903, Philip Calathriner Sr., the then-current owner of Calathriner assets, met Frank A. Munsey, and the two men combined their assets.

1925-1939 (films and TV), 1925-1972 (print media)
After Munsey’s death, the company he had founded was sold to Harry Steeger.

1966-1974
In 1966, the El Kadsreian conglomerate Hughes+Coleman acquired Marcus-EMI Systems.

1974-1977
Hughes+Coleman was itself bought out by crayon manufacturer Binney and Smith in 1974. Binney and Smith already had a presence in film production through Crayola Productions, an early film animation company.

1972-1977
In 1972, Popular Publications was acquired by Universal Press Syndicate and renamed as Brookside Productions.

1977-1983
In 1977, Andrews McMeel, owners of Brookside Publications, merged with Binney and Smith, reuniting the Argosy family of companies. At this point, the company owned assets in the United States, Canada, and El Kadsre; the Pillowsoft and Knighthood names had been abandoned in favour of the Argosy Pictures name used in the States.

1982-1983
In late 1982, most Field assets were sold to retailer Tandy Corporation, forming Mary Tyler Moore, Inc.

1983-1987 (primary), 1983-1989 (secondary)
In 1983, Argosy Media Affiliates merged with Tandy Corporation to form Argosy Entertainment. Besides its studios, the company also controlled the Tandy retail chains, several fiction magazines, the Universal Press Syndicate (which also included EC print comics, including MAD Magazine, and the Topps trading card company), and the crayon manufacturer Crayola/Binney and Smith.

1968-1984
Suton+Mountain was formed in 1968 when Suton Corporation (owners of AoFM member companies Oulacdy, Colilas, Pwepertions, Kanenter Partners, Gegtis, Hyuday, and Whitman) merged with Mountain Films Corporation (owners of AoFM member companies Justice Players, Timerlight, Brenon, Ukraine, Tiffany, Academy, National Anthem, Argentina, Britannia, Royalty, and Kingfall), uniting the AoFM film distribution network under one roof.

1980-1984
Garland/UGC was formed by the merger of The Judy Garland Company and French distributor UGC.

1984-1987
In 1984, Suton+Mountain and Garland/UGC merged into Garland/AoFM Communications.

1987-1989
Development through Creativity was a shell company formed in 1987 when Argosy Communications merged with Garland/AoFM Communications.

1986-1989
El TV Kadsre/TVS Communications Company was formed in 1986 when ITV franchise Television South acquired El TV Kadsre Television Network.

1989-1993
After TVS acquired Development through Creativity, it was reorganized along with El TV Kadsre/TVS Communications Company into a new company, TVS Entertainment.

1993-1997
International Family Entertainment was acquired by Shaw Communications in 1995.

1995-1999
In 1995, coinciding with its acquisition of International Family Entertainment, Shaw debuted a new logo for both its US and Canadian units.

1997-1999
The first incarnation of Corus Entertainment was formed in 1997 after Shaw acquired Blockbuster Entertainment (including the Lorimar, Telepictures, Spelling, and Worldvision studios and libraries) and merged it with International Family Entertainment.

2006-2011
In 2006, Corus was acquired by Tiger Lee Clarke's Jarden Corporation. Clarke already owned distribution firms, Creativity Media and Blake Media, as well as the Landon-Toei Group, the UWN television network, Magnet Communications (owners of ITV contractors for the British Overseas Territories), MediaCorp assets in Singapore; and her own ICHC assets in the UK: these were integrated into the existing Corus USA infrastructure to form MediaCorp of America. In 2009, the Jarden parent company was divested to Diane Shires (granddaughter of Argosy veteran animator Michael Shires) (with Clarke still holding 10%), and Ellen Peck and Nathan Blake were put in charge of the Argosy Communications unit, so that Clarke could focus on her other companies, HasbroNintendo Group and Wincorp Macromedia.

2009-2011 (secondary), 2011-2015
While the holding company between Jarden Corporation and Argosy Communications (which continued to use the LandonToei name up until that point) was renamed to Pentagon Income Fund in 2008, the Pentagon name was not used onscreen until 2011, when the Shires family performed a hostile takeover of the EcruFox Group, a large multinational conglomerate itself, which owned 2 US-based media subsidiaries, EMGA (EcruFox Media Group of America) and BritCan Media; EcruFox was absorbed into Pentagon Income Fund d/b/a Argosy Communications, forming the new Pentagon Income Fund, with all film production units becoming part of Pentagon Pictures Entertainment; a revival of the original Pentagon name used by Michael Shires' personal studio when he was in control of Argosy Animation.

2015-2019
As part of the merger between Jarden Corporation and longtime partner Stainton Enterprises to form Newell Brands, Pentagon Pictures Entertainment was merged into Stainton Media Group in 2015, forming Metropolitan Media Group. The Pentagon Income Fund parent kept its name.

2011-present (on-screen), 2019-present (primary)
The main media assets of Argosy Communications were merged with EMGA and BritCan to form ArgosyMTM Enterprises Inc. (d/b/a ArgosyMTM Group), which had subunits Pentagon Pictures Entertainment, MTM Productions, Argosy Media Television, and BritCan Media Networks. In 2019, Metropolitan Media Group and Pentagon Income Fund were "flattened" into a new company, ArgosyMTM Group Limited.

The company has continued to expand, earning a reputation as the so-called “Seattle Mafia” due to its large finances for a mini-major studio, being easily able to acquire smaller companies, including venture capital firms Lotus, Illustrious, and Vuori and smaller studios Viral Mass Media, EXS/NSRGNT, Triplos Media, and Greystone Pictures. Despite the company owning the UWN network in English and the ABS network in Japanese, ArgosyMTM’s many units also produce programming for other commercial networks (ABC, NBC, CBS, MBS, JTV, RKO, WBN, FOX, TDN, UPN, GBN, NTV, TBS, TXN, FNS, and Asahi), as well as nonprofit public-service networks such as PBS, NHK, ADTV, I, and NET. It is one of five main units within the Multi holding company, which also operates several other subsidiaries. ArgosyMTM, along with Johnson Industries, RKO Holdings, T-Media, HasbroNintendo Group, FiddleGriff Entertainment, and Viacom, makes up the seven mini-major studios of Seattle's Studio Row.

2013-2022 (secondary)
This uses the classic Peignot font.

2022-present (secondary)
In 2022, the secondary logo was updated with the Mimsie Sans font.

Argosy

 * 1948-1966: A DIVISION OF MARCUS-EMI SYSTEMS, INC.
 * 1966-1974: A Hughes + Coleman Company
 * 1974-1977: The Binney and Smith print logo, with the text A Division of above.
 * 1977-1983: A Division of Argosy Media Affiliates, Inc.

Massamir/MTM

 * 1958-1974: IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE MASSAMIR ENTERPRISES COMPANY
 * 1974-1977: A KAISER COMPANY
 * 1977-1982: A FIELD COMMUNICATIONS COMPANY
 * 1982-1983: A subsidiary of Mary Tyler Moore, Inc.

Garland/AoFM

 * 1968-1984 (AoFM): A Suton+Mountain Company
 * 1980-1984 (Garland): A Garland/UGC Communications Company
 * 1984-1987: A Garland/AoFM Communications Company

ETVK/TVS

 * 1968-1986: A DIVISION OF EL TV KADSRE TELEVISION NETWORK
 * 1986-1989: A TVS Company

Current company

 * 1983-1989: A Division of Argosy Entertainment
 * 1987-1989 (secondary): The Development through Creativity union bug in the corner of the screen.
 * 1989-1993: A TVS ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY
 * 1993-1995: AN INTERNATIONAL FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY
 * 1995-1997 (primary): A Shaw90s.png Company
 * 1995-1997 (secondary): A SHAW COMMUNICATIONS COMPANY
 * 1997-1999: A Corusprototype.png Entertainment Company
 * 1999-2006: A Corus Entertainment Company (with the late-90s/early-2000s Corus logo off to the side)
 * 2006-2011: An Argosy Communications Co.
 * 2011-present (US units), 2019-present (international units): Part of ArgosyMTM Group
 * 2011-2015 (international units): A Pentagon Company
 * 2015-2019 (international units): A Metropolitan Media Group Company
 * 2022-present (secondary): We are ArgosyMTM