AnimeCore (UK & Ireland)

AnimeCore is a British television channel that launched on February 7, 2016 in Wales, and in December 2016 in the rest of the UK and Ireland. It is currently wholly owned by AnimeCore Networks Europe, previously Aura Networks UK held a majority ownership stake in the channel until 2022.

History
In June 2016, Curiousgorge66 Networks announced that AnimeNation Wales will move its Welsh headquarters to London, England and become available to the entirety of the UK and Ireland by December 31st, 2016.

In December 2016, it was announced that Axiom Entertainment would receive RaGE Media Group's share in the channel on January 1st, 2017. Around that same month, AnimeNation Wales was relaunched as the UK/Ireland feed of AnimeNation and its headquarters was relocated to London, England. Axiom's share was purchased by Ravenworks Studios in November 2017, while the channel was relaunched as SurgeAnime on December 7th, 2017.

In July 2018, it was announced that Ravenworks Studios saw interest in acquiring Sky's share in the channel, as well as another 15% stake from Aura International.

In February 2021, it was announced that the channel would rebrand as AnimeCore on April 6th, 2021, with its Western Domination becoming a Beta Cartoon-themed block later in the year.

In August of 2022, Aura Networks UK sold their majority stake of the company to both Ravenworks Studios and Sky plc, with staff being hired on by Ravenworks Studios to helm the channel. Aura Networks UK would later shut down on December 31, 2022.

Between October 2022 and February 2023, the network went into a automated loop, being on reruns from the Firebasket library/Studio Acesky original library as Ravenworks/Sky worked on reacquiring rights from various licensors. The channel officially refreshed on February 6, 2023 with a brand new schedule, with it being promoted as a seven year anniversary event.

Programming
Main article: List of programmes broadcast by AnimeCore (UK & Ireland)

Schedule
See here.