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Legendary Digital Networks
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Legendary Entertainment.
Legendary Digital Networks
In 2009, the company announced the establishment of a digital division, to be headed by Kathy Vrabeck, that would primarily focus on game development, a move that surprised many industry analysts due to the film industry's previous disengagement with the video game industry. The division's goal was reoriented in 2012 with the acquisition of Nerdist Industries, LLC, a pop culture blog with an eponymous podcast. Nerdist founder Chris Hardwick announced that he and his partner Peter Levin (founder of GeekChicDaily) would still have complete editorial autonomy and that they would become the new presidents of the digital division, with Levin heading digital strategy and the digital content. In 2014, Legendary acquired both Geek & Sundry, Inc., a YouTube channel and production company, and the website Amy Poehler's Smart Girls. On June 10, 2016, LDN announced a subscription streaming service, Alpha, which would include programming from both Nerdist and Geek & Sundry. The Alpha service was shut down on March 31, 2019.