Question: Who owns the American production company that was tasked with the English dubbing of 'Pokemon' episodes as well as the show based on the Sega game 'Sonic the Hedgehog'?

Guy L. Beck is a scholar, author, musician, educator, historian of religions, and musicologist.  A Fulbright-Nehru Senior Research Fellow and Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies (Oxford University, UK), he is Lecturer in Philosophy, Religious Studies and Asian Studies at Tulane University, and Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies at Loyola University New Orleans.  As a scholar and historian of religion, Guy Beck is the first to publish a comprehensive study of the nature and function of sacred sound (Nada-Brahman) in the Hindu religion, which was developed by applying the category of 'sonic theology'.  In a sequel work, he has provided the first extensive analysis of ritual and music in Hinduism through the paradigm of 'sonic liturgy'.  As an educator, he has created the first college textbook on music in the major world religions with an accompanying CD of recordings.  As a musician, Beck is the first American performer of Hindustani vocal music, the first to earn a vocal music degree in India, and the first to perform vocal music in an all-India conference of Hindustani classical music.  As a musicologist, he has produced the first and most complete collection of field recordings, translations, and annotations of the hymns and religious songs of the Radhavallabha Sampradaya, a Vaishnava or Krishna sect based in Vrindaban in northern India. <SEP> Sonic the Hedgehog (Japanese: ソニック・ザ・ヘッジホッグ , Hepburn: Sonikku za Hejjihoggu ) is a video game franchise created and produced by Sega.  The franchise centers on a series of speed-based platform games.  The protagonist of the series is an anthropomorphic blue hedgehog named Sonic, whose peaceful life is often interrupted by the series' main antagonist, Doctor Eggman.  Typically, Sonic—usually along with some of his friends, such as Tails, Amy, and Knuckles—must stop Eggman and foil any plans of world domination.  The first game in the series, released in 1991, was conceived by Sega's Sonic Team division after Sega requested a mascot character.  The title was a success, it spawned many sequels, and it transformed Sega into a leading video game company during the 16-bit era in the early to mid 1990s. <SEP> Sonic X (Japanese: ソニックX , Hepburn: Sonikku Ekkusu ) is a Japanese anime television series created by TMS Entertainment and based on the "Sonic the Hedgehog" video game series published by Sega.  "Sonic X" initially ran for fifty-two episodes, which were broadcast on TV Tokyo from April 6, 2003 to March 28, 2004, a further twenty-six were aired in non-Japanese regions such as the United States, Europe, and the Middle East from 2005 to 2006.  The show's American localization and broadcasting were handled by 4Kids Entertainment—which edited it and created new music—until 2012, when Saban Brands obtained the rights to the series, and later in 2015 by Discotek Media. <SEP>  It was formerly a subsidiary of 4Kids Entertainment from 1995 to 2012 and its predecessor Leisure Concepts from 1992 to 1995 under the name 4Kids Productions, and was responsible for adapting and producing English language dubs of Japanese anime such as "Pokémon", "Yu-Gi-Oh!" 4K Media Inc. is an American production company currently owned by Konami. , and "Sonic X" among others, as well as producing original live action programs such as "WMAC Masters".  In total the company has overseen development and adapatation of over 1700 animated episodes.