Saban Entertainment

Saban Entertainment (or just "Saban"), was an independent television production company formed in 1983. The company was intially founded as "Saban Records" by soundtrack pioneers Haim Saban and Shuki Levy, who were behind many classic and enduring theme songs from 1980s animation (the largest contributions were for Dic). Upon an expansion in 1983, they changed their name to "Saban Productions" and sowed the seeds for what later become "Saban International", which would distribute original and imported television programming.

Saban were a much less grounded company as it pertained to importing anime. In some cases their innovative writing staffs would turn rudimentary series such as what would be known as Samurai Pizza Cats into near ad-libbed fourth-wall breaking subversive humour that winked at its audience. Saban would become best known in the 1990s for taking a well known Japanese superhero genre and making it not just something that stood on its own, but a worldwide phenomenon that endures to this day. Power Rangers

Near the end of it's run, the company would turn its attention to the demand for new Transformers episodes in the aftermath of Beast Machines conclusion, and imported and dubbed Robots in Disguise in 2001. Saban would be absorbed by Disney in the same year and Buena Vista would attain all of it's programming and have done nothing but hold down and trim every post-911 PR episode known to man.