Burst Media

Current logo as of January 2022

### Formerly

FireyWorks Television (1994-2011), BFDIWorks Television (2011-2020), Firey Media (2020-2021)

### Industry

Television, film, records, home video, cable, streaming and publishing

### Parent Company

GameDev Media (5%)
BFDIWorks Non-Profit Fund (30%)
Rake Team Industries

## Scratch Info

### Scratch Studio Link

https://scratch.mit.edu/studios/30509202/

**Burst Media** is a conglomerate created from most of BFDIWorks Television in 2020 after the end of BFDIWorks. It was a subsidiary of SGWHMedia, was a division of SesimoBurst, and is owned by media company GameDev Media, major Sillan private equity firm Rake Team Industries, and the BFDIWorks Non-Profit Fund. Apart from being a conglomerate, their executives are known to invest in major companies such as Sony, Stapler Hills, Motorways, Rake Inc., Fox, and Microsoft.

## History

Burst Media was created as a division of FireyWorks in 1994. It encompassed Bonfire Network, WD Television and numerous minor television networks and radio stations.

WD was sold to EN1 in 1996, evolving into a predecessor of One in the future. Bonfire split into Firey Network and Nexus in 1999, leaving the brand only to a few radio stations. With the 2011 BFDIWorks rebranding, it was renamed to BFDIWorks Television and all its radio operations were moved to BFDIWorks Radio.

With BFDIWorks ending in 2020, BFDIWorks Television acquired another BFDIWorks successor, The Sammy Company, a manufacturer of Sammy Newspapers, the third largest newspaper brand in Sillak, and renamed itself to Firey Holdings. It had a short time under Blocky Holdings (November 2020-April 2021) before being spun off as Firey Media.

Due to cable dying and Firey Online only being successful domestically, Firey Media was acquired by SGWHMedia on November 1, 2021 to hopefully strengthen their dying services. After the acquisition, it signed deals with Warner Bros. (to air three shows on FN plus more) and Fox Corporation (to form Fox Studios, the replacement of 20th Century Fox), as well as a renaming to Burst Media. It briefly merged with SesimoBroadcasting for a week before deciding to leave.

## Subsidiaries

Burst Media’s main subsidiaries include Firey Network, their main cable channel, as well as Firey Cinestudios (movie production), Firey Online Streaming (streaming service, now content hub within ScratchKIT), Sammy Newspapers (printing and newspapers), and numerous minor radio stations and television networks around the world. They also have rights to many libraries, including the old Gong Films, Leafy Network and Spongenet libraries. A full list of subsidiaries is in the Burst Media category. However, it is currently incomplete, so the subsidiaries will be listed here.

### Burst Media Television

#### Firey Network Channels

* Firey Network
	+ Daily News
	+ Firey Network O&O and Sillan Affiliates
* FN1
	+ Nexus Retro
* FN2
* Firey Kids
* Firey4Teens
* Firey Adult
* Firey Extra News
* Firey Comedy
* Firey Movies
* Firey 1YTV

#### Scribe Networks (owned by GameDev Media)

* Scribe
* The Power Channel
* Silver Flame

#### International Networks

* International FN Affiliates
* FN Kids
* FN Teen
* FN Adult
* FN Comedy
* FN News
* FN Movies
* The Power Channel (international)
* Scribe (international)

### Burst Media Publishing

#### Sammy Newspapers

* Sammy Press
* Sammy Newspapers
* Max Media

### Burst Media Films & Real Estate

#### Firey Studios

* Firey Cinestudios
* Firey Cinestudios Animation
* Firey Television Studios
* Firey Home Entertainment
* Geode Pictures
* Fox Studios (50% with Fox Corporation)
* Fast
* Coral Music

### Burst Media Digital

* Firey Cable
* Firey Online/Firey Online Content Hub

### Burst Music Group

* Zigzag Records
* Sillan Records

### Former subsidiaries

#### Divested

* Cascadian (2014-2021, sold to Tervac Media, replaced by three affiliates)
* Columbia-Gaston Pictures (2011-2013, sold to Sony Pictures)
* Curtis Green Network (2016-2018, spun off)
* Fanfare Network (2014-2019, given to Red Media subsidiary, merged into Corewar Network)
* Firey Culture Network (2006-2013, spun off into Chares Culture Network)
* Milford Network (2014-2019, given to Red Media subsidiary)
* Paramount Network (2013-2016, Sillan network only, sold back to Viacom)
* Sundust (2012-2015, sold to private equity firm Rake Team Industries)
* Channel TWO (formerly RFT, 2020-2021, stake given to Wenstor subsidiary)
* WD Television (1994-1996, sold to EN1, now HJ Inc.'s Channel Four)

### Shut down/Merged

* Williams (1999-2018, merged into Nexus alongside all affiliates and sister networks)

## Mergers and acquisitions

Burst Media was shaped by mergers and acquisitions. All of them are here.

* (August 12, 1975) Gong Holdings acquires the Sillan Radio and Television Network. Gong Holdings already had Sammy Press.
* (June 4, 1979) Gong Holdings spins off SRT, Sammy Press and Gong Channel (renamed to G News) into Sammy Western so that Gong could focus more on films.
* (April 24, 1981) Sammy Western breaks up into Western Media and Sammy Press
* (September 18, 1984) The newspaper brand NEWspapers acquires Sammy Press and sdopts it’s name, renaming to Sammy Newspapers
* (July 22, 1985) Sammy acquires Bonfire Network as well as all of Western Media, forming TimmySammy
* (February 16, 1987) TimmySammy acquires Wallis Drax Corporation’s television operations, forming WD Television
* (June 16, 1987) TimmySammy creates Studio 18 alongside 17 other core companies
* (November 3, 1991) Studio 18 rebrands to FireyWorks
* (May 14, 1994) The 18 core companies are dissolved and dispersed into new units. Bonfire Network and WD Television plus a few independent radio stations are merged into FireyWorks Television.
* (December 12, 1996) WD Television is sold to EN1
* (May 4, 1998) The Sammy Network is exchanged from FireyWorks Printing to FireyWorks Television. It is renamed to Bonfire 2
* (June 2, 1999) Bonfire splits into FN and Nexus

(WIP)