AnimeCore (United States)

AnimeCore is an American television channel devoted to anime. It is currently available 72 million households in the US, as well as on OTT streaming services like YouTube TV, Sling Orange and Blue, Hulu + Live TV, DirecTV Stream,

History
AnimeNation launched on December 6, 2014 on WNBC in New York, a day later it launched in Maine. AnimeNation planned to expand nationally by April 20, 2015. It also plans to expand into a 24 hour channel by the end of summer in 2015. In late March, Sunday's AnimeNation schedule was removed for unknown purposes. In late June, it was announced that on July 2 that the block will be transformed into a 24/7 channel.

There was trouble with the channel getting online, so allowed AnimeNation to have a early morning block on Saturday early mornings from 4am - 6am until the channel is fully functional. It went live at 5:30am on August 2 with an airing of Gundam.

In 2015, NBCUniversal pulled it's funding from the channel, and the channel is finding someone to buy it's share. One day later, Curiousgorge66 Networks bought NBCUniversal's share. On December 7, 2015, the channel rebranded itself, and on December 17, it was renamed AnimeNation.

An Latin American feed was launched in the summer of 2016 that has the same programming as the United States feed.

AnimeNation rebranded on December 2nd, 2017 as SurgeAnime. On May 20, 2018, it was announced that the channel will close in the winter of that year and the channel space will taken over by Firebasket Studios.

Later in November, it was announced that AniSeed will close and that SurgeAnime will be relaunched. The channel relaunched on January 5, 2019 with a Dragon Ball Z marathon of all 291 episodes.

On March 25, 2019 at 3pm, the look rebranded to the current worldwide logo of SurgeAnime.

On April 5, 2021, the channel rebranded as AnimeCore.

In 2023, AnimeCore Group bought Lionsgate's share of the network, and also bought out half of Vision International's share. Later in March, it was announced that the president of the network, Marquis Richards, will step down after working at AnimeCore for eight years. He would be replaced by Riley Abbott, who has been the Vice President and CFO of AnimeCore Group since 2021. Richards would then replace Abbott as the new Vice President and CFO of the entire AnimeCore Group.

Libraries

 * AnimeCore Group original media from all countries
 * Firebasket Media Publishing & Distribution
 * Broadcast licensed rights from other companies

Schedule
TBD

Presidents

 * Marquis Richards (2015-2023)
 * Riley Abbott (2023-present)

Programming Directors

 * Mia Wilson (2015-2018)
 * Alonzo Santos (2018-2020)
 * Azalea Brennan (2021-present)

Consultants

 * Kade Herman (2015-2018)
 * Alonzo Santos (2020-2022)