Dreamworks Animation Television is an American animation Studio that serves as the television production arm of Dreamworks Animation, Itself Subsidiary of Universal Pictures and a Division of comcast's NBCUniversal Founded in 1996 the entity was formerly named Dreamworks Television Animation. It's first programs from the 1990s and early 2000s used the live action television logo and were produced by Dreamworks Television Before DWATV and it's parent company were spun off into an independent company in 2004 and later purchased by NBCUniversal in 2016.