DreamWorks Animation Television (formerly DreamWorks Television Animation, abbreviated as DWATV) is an American animation studio that serves as the television production arm of DreamWorks Animation, itself a subsidiary of Universal Pictures and a division of Comcast's NBCUniversal. Its first programs from the 1990s and early 2000s used the live-action television logo, and were produced by DreamWorks Television, before DWATV and its parent company were spun off into an independent company in 2004 and later purchased by NBCUniversal in 2016. In total, the division has released 60 programs, with 6 in development.
History
The company was first formed in 1996 as the animation division of DreamWorks Television, a subsidiary of the main live-action DreamWorks Pictures studio. DreamWorks Pictures also had an animated film subsidiary named DreamWorks Animation, although DreamWorks Television Animation did not operate as a subsidiary of it in the 1990s.