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| owner = [[Sony]] <small>([[Sony Pictures Entertainment]] and [[Sony Music Entertainment Japan]] joint ownership)</small>
| parent = [[Funimation|Funimation Global Group]]
| launch_date = {{Start date and age|df=yes|2016|1|7}}<br />(as FunimationNow)
| predecessor = FunimationNow (2016–2020)
| current_status = Active
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| headquarters = [[West Palm Beach, Florida]]
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'''Funimation Channel''' (formerly '''FunimationNow''') is an American [[subscription video on demand]] [[streaming media|streaming]] service and former [[pay television]] channel that specializes in the online streaming and simulcasting of Japanese [[anime]] series. It was originally launched in 2005 as a television channel owned by Olympusat. In 2015, the original cable channel was replaced by [[Toku (TV network)|Toku]]. The channel relaunched on January 7, 2016, as a digital streaming service owned by [[Funimation]], a subsidiary of [[Sony]].
==History==
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The Funimation Channel signed off on December 31, 2015, at 6:00 p.m. [[Eastern Time]], after an episode of ''[[Fairy Tail]]''. A bumper was briefly aired afterwards, which was interrupted by Toku's programming stream, which aired ''[[Rio: Rainbow Gate!]]'' at the time of the transition.
As part of the Funimation Channel's relaunch as a streaming service in January 2016, the channel rebranded itself as
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