CiNAR (Irish and British Alliance)

CiNAR Corporation is a kids television production company and animation company headquartered in New York, Canada. Established in 1976 as a foreign film distributor, they later had a slight rebrand in 1978 with their current logo. However, it wasn't until 1979 that they would enter the children's television industry and have a partial rebranding into only that. They are famous for producing Arthur, Zoboomafoo, Mona the Vampire, Are You Afraid of the Dark and producing Green City since 1996 (and a few episodes from 1979-1980), which was when they acquired Filmfair Studios. They also produced English dubs of Adventures of Little Koala (which also includes a French dub) and The World of David the Gnome. They are a frequent producer for PBS and related networks, although they have produced shows for Time Warner-owned Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network. Today, CiNAR Films occasionally distributes foreign films to Canada and the Union of West American States.

History
In 1976, Micheline Charest and Ronald Weinburg founded CiNAR in New York City. The name "CiNAR" comes from Charest and Weinburg. CiNAR was initially a foreign film distributor to the United States. During 1977, CiNAR moved to Montreal, Quebec, as Viacom infamously took over New York. In 1978, CiNAR adopted their first logo. The letters "CiNAR" are in blue, in thick font and have segmented lines cutting through the letters. The I is dotted red. The last three letters are connected together, and the entire logo is slanted. The first few uses of this logo were in-credit only.

Moving On
However, in 1979, CiNAR made their first on-screen logo. On a black background, blue lines come from the left and right sides of the screen. Then, the aforementioned CiNAR wordmark flashes in, and the lines become black like the background. This was used in a few films, however never really got used in too many. Why? Well, this was the same year that CiNAR would attempt to enter the childrens television industry. They first helped produce some episodes of Green City, along with Filmfair. The aforementioned on-screen logo was used. In 1981, the logo gained a tune. The tune is identical to OTL's 1985 CiNAR logo tune. In 1985, CiNAR adopted OTL's animated logo. Unlike OTL, this was the main logo until 1995. In 1995, CiNAR adopted a new logo, that was 3D animated. On the skyline of Montreal, a letter C from the CiNAR wordmark flies in. The other letters from the wordmark fly in similarly, however the dot from the I does not fly in. Then, after the logo shines, the dot flies in. The background turns black, after the logo shines again. The tune used was usually the ending theme of the show. In 1996, CiNAR acquired the British animation and production studio Filmfair. This meant that from now on, CiNAR would co-produce episodes of Green City along with Filmfair and the distributor of the episode (depending on nation). This also meant that CiNAR now had the rights to Filmfair's original properties, including original characters, and shows.

CiNAR v. Viacom Corp.
In 1998, CiNAR sued Viacom for copyright infringement. CiNAR claimed that Greeny Phatom was an infringement on the Green City copyright and trademark. They brought up Dr. Beanson and Santed Sailor as main examples of this. However, when CiNAR looked through episode after episode of Greeny Phatom to prove Viacom guilty, they found that Green City wasn't the only thing ripped off. 123 Greeny Phatom had a suspiciously similar name to 123 Sesame Street, Microsoft Windows errors appear in an episode, Dr. PBS exists, Mr. NPR exists, and Gario exists. They brought these to the attention of the CTW, Microsoft, PBS, NPR and Nintendo. The case grew larger. But Viacom refused to take the show off the air or even cancel the show. They kept it on. And then, the Green War was fought entirely off of Greeny Phatom. In 2004, Viacom surrendered, and Greeny Phatom was taken off the air permanently. However, that doesn't mean that it's all sunshine and rainbows, because...

CiNAR Scandal
In March 2000, CiNAR reported a scandal. They were losing money rapidly, however didn't know why. They searched for quite a while, and found nothing. So they asked the Canadian government about the problem. Canada called other nations about it. No one admitted to anything. So then the last nation was up on the list: Viacom. The Canadian military marched into Viacom in May 2000, and asked about the CiNAR scandal. Viacom admitted to nothing. And then it happened. A Viacomese soldier accidentally tripped, fell, and started a series of events that would reveal that Viacom deliberately did the CiNAR scandal so that CiNAR could go defunct and they could take over the world a lot easier.

The Cookie Jar Group
In 2004, Michael Hirsh, a founder of Nelvana Limited, purchased the company and reorganized it to save CiNAR from the financial troubles that they had faced from Viacom. The main CiNAR Corp. was reorganized into The Cookie Jar Group. Their logo resembled a cookie jar (obviously), with the words "Cookie" and "Jar" stacked on each other instead of the middle of the jar. It resembles an old Burger King logo, that was similar, except resembled a burger rather than a cookie jar. Coliseum Entertainment was also founded this year as a part of TCJG, and would produce live-action older kids shows. The CiNAR name was still kept for CiNAR Films, Television and Animation, however CiNAR Corp. was reorganized into Cookie Jar. Some had questioned this name change, with quite a few jokes (mostly about the CiNAR scandal, and those ones were dark comedy) about the name, such as "Who stole the cookies from the Cookie Jar? Viacom.". However, their intents were made clear when they announced they were willing to donate food items to poor families living in third-world environments such as Yemen, Iraq, Iran, among a few others. After this announcement, many people had much more gratitude for The Cookie Jar Group. In 2008, someone proposed to The Cookie Jar Group that they buy out DiC Entertainment. However, this never made it through. This was also when CiNAR gained a new on-screen logo, this time set in New York. On a New York skyline, a letter C from the wordmark flashes. It then cuts to the Empire State Building, which turns into the I from the wordmark. Another cut is made to the New York skyline, which the letters "NAR" fade in. It then cuts to the sky, where the completed wordmark is formed by the I coming from the bottom, the C coming from the left, and the NAR coming from the right. After the logo is completed, the background fades to black. In 2013, after 35 years of the classic CiNAR wordmark, they changed the wordmark to a more modern style. This time, it uses a different typeface, is no longer slanted, and is now stylized "cinar". Along with this was a new on-screen logo. On a white background, segments of the wordmark move near each other until they meet and form the wordmark, excluding the dot of the I. Once the almost-complete wordmark is formed, it grows larger for a bit and then the dot of the I appears once the logo gets back to normal size. There is a byline, and it says "is a registered trademark of and is owned by The Cookie Jar Group". It is meant to be read as "Cinar is a registered trademark of and is owned by The Cookie Jar Group". The tune is OTL's 4th DHX Media on-screen logo's tune, or the credits theme of the show. This trait is shared by Filmfair's current logo.