Manelli Media

Manelli Media is an American entertainment company headquartered in, with offices in and. The company is primarily a television syndication company and also handles barter advertising sales in exchange for syndication deals with local television stations, cable outlets, and digital media. The company also produces television programs and made-for-TV movies. The company was founded in its current form in 2002 by Frank Manelli, who is the company's president. The company's co-president is Peter Arndt, who has hosted several of its original reality TV programs and also serves as the company's Director of Original TV and Digital Media Production.

History
Manelli Media's history began in 1991 when Frank Manelli founded Manelli Syndication, Inc. in, with financial backing from (of whom he had worked as an international sales agent for). The companies entered a partnership where Manelli Syndication would distribute programs and Viacom would provide advertising sales services on Manelli's behalf. Manelli was hired by in 1993, and Manelli Syndication was subsequently folded into Viacom.

The company was revived in 2002 as Manelli Media, with a main focus on barter syndication, acquiring off-network syndication rights for cable television series, and producing original content for syndication. It started off by picking up the off-network syndication rights to the series The Crocodile Hunter, with King World attached as advertising sales agent. This was followed by the syndicated launch of 's Trauma: Life in the E.R. in the summer of 2004, again with King World as advertising sales agent. Also in 2004, it acquired -based Arndt Productions, LLC and hired its founder and president, Peter Arndt, as its Director of Original TV Production. That same year, WDGY America picked up the cable rights to Manelli's The Crocodile Hunter syndication package.

In 2005, Manelli Media, King World and created FunZoneTV, a children's programming block designed for barter syndication that featured animated programs from Sony's library. In September of that same year, they masterminded the syndicated launches of 's Beavis and Butt-Head and Daria and the 's Dirty Jobs, with King World as advertising sales agent for all three titles.

In May 2007, Manelli Media formed its own in-house advertising sales division. In September of that year, took over the ad sales for several of Manelli's older syndication titles, including The Crocodile Hunter, Dirty Jobs and Beavis and Butt-Head.

In 2012, Manelli Media took over as UWF Brawl 's syndication distributor.

In April 2019, Manelli Media moved its remaining advertising sales deals with 20th Television to their in-house ad sales division.

Original productions by Manelli Media
Many of Manelli Media's scripted television series have used the "10–90" model devised originally by, where the syndicator sells the program to a cable station for a 10-episode test run, with an expected renewal for an additional 90 episodes, which would allow it to have a profitable life in off-network syndication, as achieving 100 episodes is considered the desired number for a show to begin entering daily reruns.

Television

 * Repo Court (2013-present)
 * Urgent Care (2015-present) (co-production with Heffelfinger Productions and )
 * Urgent Care: Trainees (2022-present) (co-production with Heffelfinger Productions and )

Programs

 * Crikey! It's the Irwins (produced by for ; Manelli Media acquired off-network syndication rights in 2019 and began syndicating it in September 2020)
 * The Crocodile Hunter
 * Destroyed in Seconds
 * Dirty Jobs
 * Doctor Who (surviving 1960s episodes and post-1970 episodes of the classic series, plus post-2014 episodes of the revived series; Manelli Media replaced as the series' U.S. off-network syndication distributor in 2014)
 * Gold Rush
 * Home Movies (produced by Burns & Burns Productions and for  and later ; Manelli Media began syndicating the show in 2006)
 * Mythbusters
 * Repo Court
 * UWF Brawl (syndication distribution and ad sales for pre-taped episodes)
 * World's Dumbest...

Movies

 * El TV Kadsre Films, PPE Pictures and KTV Films original film catalogues under license from primary international distributor
 * back catalogue
 * library
 * library

Programs

 * Beavis and Butt-Head - syndicated from 2005-2012
 * Bindi the Jungle Girl
 * Daria - syndicated from 2005-2012
 * Endurance
 * Man vs. Wild
 * Raven: The Way of the Warrior