Disney Earnings Are Strong, But Interactive Lags
Disney (NYSE: DIS) may be dedicated to turning around its interactive media group, but the numbers released by the company today show the co…
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Funding Roundup: Formspring, Baynote, PrimeSense
— Formspring: The question and answer service has raised $11.5 million in a first round of funding led by Redpoint Ventures, bringing its t…
Toy Story Drives Disney’s Interactive Revs Up; Segment’s Losses Narrow
A mix of cheaper video games and higher subscription dollars at its kid-focused virtual world Club Penguin helped drive the Walt Disney (NYS…
Disney Digital Narrows Losses As Revs Rise 20 Percent
The Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) posted healthy gains this past quarter, and the company cited box office successes such as Alice In Wonderla…
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Updated: Marvel Transforms Into Disney Unit; Deal Valued At $4.3 Billion
As expected, 2009 ended with 70-year-old Marvel Entertainment (NYSE: MVL) and its 5,000-plus characters as part of The Walt Disney (NYSE: DI…
SEC Watch: Disney’s Iger Cash Take Cut By 28 Percent (But Still Plenty)
Compensating execs gets a little tougher when all the main measures for a fiscal year are all down: revenue, 4 percent; earnings per share,…
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Corp Comm Head Seshasaye Kanthamraju Named Marketing Head At Disney Studios India
Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) Studios Motion Pictures India has named Seshasaye Kanthamraju as director, marketing and distribution. Kanthamraju h…
Disney Interactive Studios Acquires Wideload Games
Disney’s clearly got money to burn. Its gaming division, Disney (NYSE: DIS) Interactive Studios, is acquiring indie game developer Wideload…
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Mobile Content Bits: ESPN; AP; Hannah Montana; Taptu
— ESPN (NYSE: DIS) ScoreCenter: ESPN Mobile has launched a third app on the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) App Store: ESPN ScoreCenter is a free app th…
Disney Goes Without Apps, Sees Record-Breaking Mobile Web Traffic
While media companies have been quick to jump on the application bandwagon, Disney (NYSE: DIS) reported today that its focus on the mobile w…
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Disney Breaks Away From Excel In Home Video Business; To Go Direct To Retail
Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) Studios Home Entertainment India, which handles the home video business of the entertainment conglomerate, has decid…
Monsters Vs. Aliens Tops Box Office; The Prospects For 3-D
The analysts and studio executives who are bullish on the prospects for 3-D over the next few years will point to this past weekend as evide…
Disney Earnings Call: Networks Facing Difficult Times; Virtual Worlds, Mobile ‘Closer’ To Profit
In what is becoming a trend among media companies during the last few weeks, Disney (NYSE: DIS) released results for the quarter ended Decem…
Earnings: Disney Interactive Revenues Up 13 Percent But New Segment Turns In A Loss
While everyone else looks at the big picture — The Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) Company runs into the economic version of the law of gravity –…
Earnings: Disney Disappoints With 14 Percent Profit Drop; Revs Up 6 Percent
The Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) Company has been playing the role of Wall Street darling but not today. The company still turned a profit but no…
MVNO Disasters Aside, Disney Still Doing a Lot in Mobile
But that we knew…Forbes does a good roundup of Disney’s (NYSE: DIS) extensive mobile efforts, focusing on content and applications, after…
Disney Call: Iger: ‘A Good Hand In A Tough Game’; Ad Market Weakening
After posting a solid quarter, Disney CEO Robert Iger described the company as holding a “strong hand in a very tough game.” The tough game…
Earnings: Disney Inches Past Estimates; Cable Networks Business Holds Up, But Film Drops
Disney (NYSE: DIS) announced quarterly revenue of $9.23 billion, up 2 percent form last year, and edging out analyst estimates of $9.14 bill…
Updated: Disney.com Remake In Works, Again; Adding Full-Length Movies; ‘Camp Rock’ Draws Crowds
Disney.com, the marquee homepage for Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) Company, is being remade again, a year after its relaunch: The changes will be…
Earnings: Disney Q1 Beats Estimates Handily; Net Income Up 22 Percent
The Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) Company disappointed only the naysayers today for the most part today, turning in yet another quarter of the kin…
ABC.com Testing Multiple Commercials For Online TV Episodes
Disney-ABC Television Group plans to test viewer reaction to the presence of multiple commercials within long-form online videos on its ABC.…
Radio Disney Launches Mobile Site
Radio Disney has launched a mobile offering, unsurprisingly developed with mDisney (NYSE: DIS). The Radio Disney Mobile Web Site lets people…
Disney Interactive Studios Buys Chinese Gaming Studio Gamestar
Disney Interactive Studios, the gaming arm of Disney (NYSE: DIS), is buying Gamestar, a Chinese independent video game software developer wi…
Mobile Content Bits: Fox Business; HBO On Bell; VH1 Mobile Chat
— Fox Business Signs on to MobiTV: Another content licensing deal for MobiTV–this time with Fox Business Network (release).
— Bell C…
Inside The Deals: AOL May Be Worth More Than You Think
Ed. Note: Welcome to the second edition of Inside The Deals, a weekly column about M&A in the media written by veteran business journalist S…
Disney Tries Again: Launches MVNO With Softbank In Japan
Following two failed MVNOs in the US, Disney (NYSE: DIS) has gone to Japan, where on Saturday, it launched an MVNO–Disney Mobile–with Soft…
Disney Forms Games & Communities Online Unit
Disney (NYSE: DIS), through WDIG, has created a new team called Disney Online Studios, to focus on games, virtual worlds and online social c…
Disney Clearly Not Giving Up On Mobile; Launches Portal In U.K.
With so much buzz going on this week, it was easy to overlook yet another mobile strategy being unveiled by Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS). It said…
Earnings: Disney Revenue Up 9 Percent; Media Networks Up 10 Percent
The Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) Company reported quarterly revenue of $10.45 billion for its quarter ended December 29, up 9 percent year-on-yea…
Poll: Will Disney's New Mobile Service Work in Japan?
Disney (NYSE: DIS), not content with two failed MVNO ventures in U.S., is now entering Japan, and launching a mobile service aimed at women.…
Industry Moves: Disney Appoints New VP Of Mobile Distribution
Disney (NYSE: DIS) and ESPN Media Networks have appointed Tim Connolly to the new position of VP-mobile distribution. Prior to this, he was…
ESPN Star Sports Acquires Mobile Rights For India's Tour Of Australia
ESPN-STAR Sports (ESS) has acquired the mobile rights of India’s tour of Australia from Cricket Australia, the governing body of Cricket in…
Mahesh Samat Appointed MD Of Disney India
Mahesh Samat has been named the Managing Director of the Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) Company (India). Samat over twenty years of experience acro…
ESPN, NielsenConnect Investigate Cross-Platform Audiences
NielsenConnect and ESPN will be looking at the latters’ audience, with the intention of working out who is looking at the content and where.…
Round-Up: IPhone Victims; ESPN In France; KDDI Widgets
— The iPhone has stolen customers from Palm (NSDQ: PALM) and T-Mobile, according to research by NPD, because “the iPhone bridges the gap be…
Media Execs Argue Against Use Of White Space For Mobile Internet
Media execs are starting the counter-lobbying against the use of white space for mobile internet services, led by Disney (NYSE: DIS) CEO Ro…
Disney.com Gets Mobile Makeover
Disney (NYSE: DIS).com has gone mobile thanks to mDisney, a unit of the Walt Disney Internet Group. This is not the MVNO features on another…
Was $1 Billion Invested in 35 Virtual Worlds In The Past Year? Not Quite
A report from Virtual Worlds Management, which tracks the virtual worlds industry, says over $1 billion was invested in 35 virtual worlds ov…
Disney Mobile Game Raises Questions On Data Charging In UK
Here’s an incident that highlights one of the bigger problems in mobile content services today: pricing. In June, Disney (NYSE: DIS) in the…
Disney Licenses Shows For Online Sale in Finland; Four Days After U.S. Debut
Disney’s (NYSE: DIS) international television arm has tied up with Finnish commercial broadcaster Nelonen, to offer its shows online four da…
ABC To Begin Streaming Ad-supported Primetime Shows On AOL
ABC is pushing ahead with its revised online video strategy in a deal to distribute its primetime shows for free on AOL (NYSE: TWX) starting…
Goldman Sachs Communacopia: Robert Iger, CEO, Disney: 200 Million Disney.com Video Streams In August
Disney (NYSE: DIS) CEO Robert Iger sees his company as a blockbuster factory, churning out hits across a variety of “creative engines”, whic…
Industry Moves: Gershon Leaves ABC News For Disney Corporate
After 14 years at ABC News, Bernie Gershon is moving on to new responsibilities for the mother ship aka the Disney Corporate Strategy, Busin…
ABC And WB Tie Up On Online Show Streaming Rights; Studio Gets Rights Too
ABC Entertainment (NYSE: DIS) and Warner Bros. TV Group (NYSE: TWX) have tied up on streaming rights for four WBTV shows including “Pushing…
Community Software Developer Passenger Raises $8.3 Million In Second Round From Disney, Others
Social net collaboration software developer Passenger has raised $8.3 million in a second round financing led by The Walt Disney Company’s S…
Disney Appoints Swati Shetty Head Of TV Distribution For India
Disney has appointed Swati Shetty as Director (India), responsible for Disney-ABC International Television
Disney Releases Mobile Comics On Airtel, Reliance, Hutch
The way they price these things…Disney has launched mobile comics – both full stories and single comic strips – on the decks of Reliance C…
Disney Interactive Acquires Video Gamer Junction Point Studios
Disney Interactive Studios has bought Junction Point Studios, a video game developer based in Austin, Tx. Disney wants Junction Point to cre…
China Roundup: Mobile Ad Numbers; Disney In China
— China’s mobile ad market has everyone drooling: Revenues from the ad market will reach $92 million this year and $142 million next year,…
ABC Stations Group Offers Free Mobile Video
A definite move towards ad-supported: The ABC Stations Group is offering free mobile video at its 10 owned and operated stations, reports Mu…
mSpot Signs Up ABC Radio
Mobile content aggregator mSpot announced that ABC Radio Networks will be broadcasting 14 of its stations on its service including stations…
NBA Extensions With Disney, Turner Include ‘Robust’ Digital Rights, Including Mobile
The new NBA media deals are done — extending contracts with The Walt Disney Company’s ESPN and ABC and Turner Broadcasting’s TNT through th…
ABC News To Cut 35 Jobs Over 2 Years; Focus On Digital
“Focus on digital” is a euphemism for closing the other side of operation these days: so it is with ABC News, who said today that it will cu…
Industry Moves: ESPN ODs on Content VPs
ESPN has appointed a boatload of content execs: The Disney sports powerhouse restructured the organization under John Skipper, EVP-content,…
Disney’s Steamboat Ventures Helps Chinese Video Sharing Site 56.com Raise $10 Million
Chinese video sharing site 56.com has closed a $10 million financing round from Disney’s funding arm Steamboat Ventures and SIG, according t…
Disney Mobile Rapped Over Game Ads In UK
The UK Advertising Standards Authority has ruled against Disney Mobile after a complaint that its ads for some mobile games didn’t include t…
Chinese Video Ad Network CTS Closes $8 Million Second Round Led By Steamboat Ventures
In-stream video ad provider CTS Media (“Click To See Media”) has raised $8 million in second round funding led by Disney’s Steamboat Venture…
Disney’s Digital Revenues To Cross $1.5 Billion This Year
Though what it counts as digital is a broad spectrum, hence that big figure: includes online advertising revenue from sites like ESPN.com an…
Quotes From The Games And Mobile Forum
There’s quite a few stories around from the Games & Mobile Forum, although no long and coherent ones about mobile games (note that the forum…
Disney Calls For More Mobile Web Experimentation
Walt Disney Internet Group President Steve Wadsworth has said he would like to see US carriers experiment more with pricing and advertising…
Why’s Scarface Big On Mobile?
Scarface was a big mobile content seller in 2006, clocking up 2 million sales of ringtones, voicetones, graphics and games reports THR. The…
Earnings: Disney 2Q Profits Up 27 Percent; Network Revs Flat; Studio Revs Fall
The Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) posted net profit for FY07 2Q of $931 million, or 44 cents per share, compared with $733 million, or 37 cent…
Disney Mobile To Add Features
George Grobar, Disney Mobile’s senior VP/GM, has outlined a heap of new features the MVNO will add to its service, reports Twice. The family…
Disney Venture Fund Helps Secure $10.75 Second Round Funding For Baynote
Steamboat Ventures, Disney’s funding arm, led the $10.75 million second round financing for content guidance provider Baynote. Baynote’s Use…
Two Vie To Run UK’s Second Digital Radio Network
Two companies have bid to control the UK’s second digital radio network, giving them the opportunity to operate up to a dozen new DAB (digit…
Disney Backs Tween Social Net Imbee
As tween social net Imbee gets ready to unveil its redesign next month, the Industrious Kid-owned site has revealed that one of its main bac…
Updated: Starz Sues Disney For Movie Downloads; Claims Copyright and Contract Violations
Updated: Here’s a link to download the full lawsuit…PDF file.
This was bound to happen: Starz has been beating its chest for a couple of y…
Broadband Content Bits: Disney Concerts; France24; Weather Island
Disney to offer virtual concerts via Web site: Disney.com launches a three-month virtual concert series March 13. Reuters reports that D*Con…
Movie Gallery Acquires Heavily Funded MovieBeam For Less Than $10 Million
A little more than a year ago we were writing about the spinoff and recapitalization of on- demand movie service MovieBeam backed with $52.5…
Industry Moves: Cindy Rose Takes On Expanded Role With Walt Disney European Internet Efforts
The Walt Disney Company has named Cindy Rose as the new head of its European, Middle East and African internet operation, aka SVP-and MD of…
Bell Canada Launches Full-Length Movies For Its Mobile Service
Bell Canada has taken the wraps off Mobile Movies, a service that delivers full-length, pay-per-view movies streamed directly to video-capab…
@ 3GSM: Studios, Operators Debate Mobile TV Models, Reveal Line-Up
What flies and why was the hot topic at today’s iHollywood Mobile Europe even, a day of sessions and seminars in Barcelona running parallel…
Online Newspapers Are Attracting More Local Ad Dollars With Streaming Video
All forms of traditional media realize that survival depends on offering quality streaming video in order to retain and attract advertisers.…
@ 3GSM Operators & Content Owners Clash On Discovery, Disparate Business Models
User-gen content may be billed as the next “Big Thing” in mobile, but a panel of senior execs from mobile operators and content companies, i…
DIS Investors Day: Iger: Global Disney.com; No Price Hikes For TV Downloads
Disney CEO Bob Iger and CFO Tom Staggs are taking questions from analysts at the end of the investors meeting. Some highlights:
Jobs & DRM:…
Earnings: DIS: Profit More Than Doubles; On Track For $700 Million Digital Revenue This Year
Another good quarter for The Walt Disney Company, which saw profit more than double to $1.7 billion, or $0.79 per share, from $734 million,…
Industry Moves: Disney Internet European Head Attila Gazdag Leaves
The managing director of Walt Disney Internet Group (WDIG) Europe Attila Gazdag has left the company, WDIG PR has confirmed. Not clear where…
Disney Sold 1.3 million Movies on iTunes in Three Months: Iger
So said Bob Iger, CEO of Disney, in a video interview with FT.com (Text transcript here). The company, the first studio to sign onto iTunes…
Executive Pay: Disney's Iger, Staggs Clean Up; Apple Options Investigated
After all the stories about executive pay raises when the stock is going in the other direction, it’s almost refreshing to see some that act…
Disney Channel Shows Now Playing On Orange UK
The Disney Channel has sealed a deal with Orange in the U.K. to show users with 3G handsets a selection of full live action episodes or anim…
More On Disney.com: Social Networking, Video, Personalization, Parental Control
So while Disney PR was telling the NYT and others, including us, that CEO Bog Iger was unavailable for interviews, he did talk to the WSJ ab…
Industry Moves: Disney Mobile Promotes Two To VP Posts
The Walt Disney Internet Group has made two promotions on the mobile side: Trish Halamandaris from director to VP, marketing and carrier sal…
Earnings: DIS Profit More Than Doubled For Quarter; Up 33 Percent For Year
Updated. Hard to argue when Disney CEO Bob Iger says the company had a “spectacular” year. The quarter that ended Sept. 30, which is also wh…
Disney Exec: Mobile TV Is Going To Be Huge
Anne Sweeney, co-chair of Disney Media Networks and president of Disney-ABC TV, gave a talk on Disney’s attitude to new media content at Mip…
Old Media Report On Old Media Using Old Ways
The old-media circular firing squad just called for new bullets. Business Week, fresh from layoffs and launching a mobile site, is wondering…
35 Advertisers Paying $100,000-$200,000 Quarterly For ABC Broadband
ABC.com has identified 21 of the 35 advertisers for its new broadband player. The list includes Johnson & Johnson, P&G (Crest and Olay), Spr…
ABC Affiliates Being Offered New ABCNews.com Broadband Player
This makes sense given the recent affiliate agreement to make the ABC.com player available for affiliates. ABCNews.com will offer more than…
ABC’s Ad-Supported Broadband Player Returns; Grey’s Hits iTunes
An enhanced version of the Interactive Emmy-winning ABC.com broadband player trialed late last spring relaunches Friday night. While only fo…
YouTube Commercialization Continues With Cingular, ABC Gig
On the heels of its deal with Warner Music, YouTube has another music tie-up… Cingular will sponsor an online battle of unsigned bands on…
Communacopia XV: Iger: $50 Million From iTunes Movies In First Year; Disney.com Relaunch In Early ‘0
More than 125,000 Disney downloads were sold in the first few days following the addition of movies to the Apple’s iTunes, bringing in about…
Yahoo Pushes Futher Into MP3; Launches Full Album With Disney Label
Yahoo, which had a popular experiment in July with a Jessica Simpson single in unrestricted MP3 format, has taken a step further: it will se…
ABC, Affiliate Board Reach Online Deal; Includes Local Ads; iTunes Giveaway
ABC’s broadband player will be stuffed with new and returning shows when it debuts for real Sept. 23 — and this time, the affiliates should…
Disney Buys Out Chinese Mobile Content Firm M2W
Via ContentSutra: This is a story we’ve been following for a while, and final confirmation: Disney has made its first Chinese mobile content…
Disney’s Shows Online In Germany, Seven Days Prior to TV
This is a German first: Disney’s international syndication arm, Buena Vista International Television has come to a deal with ProSiebenSat.1…
Disney Q2: ESPN To Stay On Mobile, MVNO Not Guaranteed; $150M Investment
[by James Pearce] In Disney’s Q2 earnings call, bunch of stuff about the status of MVNOs form Disney, both MobileESPN and newly launched Dis…
ABC Shares (Some) Results Of Video Trial; Player Resumes On ABC.com This Fall
The Disney-ABC Television Group made it official today — ie sent out the press release — the ad-supported ABC.com broadband player will b…
Disney Mobile’s New TV Ad Campaign
Disney Mobile has announced a TV ad campaign run by SF-based BuderEngel and Friends. The commercials target parents, “highlighting the compr…
Apple To Announce iTunes Movie Rentals: Report
Steve Jobs will use his Worldwide Developers Conference keynote next month to announce movie rentals on iTunes, according to Think Secret.…
Disney, Austin Powers, La Lega Licensing Deals
A couple of licensing deals… Austin Powers International Man of Mystery will be appearing on the Rok Player for
ESPN’s Social Networking Plans; Monday Night Surround; ESPN360 Open Trials
ESPN is going to add more social networking tools on its sites….it will unveil as part of ESPN’s Sports Nation property the tools for fans…
ABC.com Will Relaunch Broadband Player In Fall; Trial Ends June 30
ABC.com’s two-month broadband streaming trial will end as expected … No new data yet but Anne Sweeney, co-chair, Disney Media Networks/pre…
Disney Asia Pacific Holds Its First New Media Showcase
Disney — via its distribution arm Buena Vista International Television (BVITV) — has showcased its new media offerings in Singapore…Disn…
Disney’s Digital Tryouts: Gated Broadband Channels vs Open Web
(reg req.) A good analysis of the different approaches Disney is taking in online distribution of shows for its SoapNet and Disney Channel n…
DisneyChannel.com Serves 11.4 Million Streams During Debut Weekend
The first stats are in from DisneyChannel.com — more than 11.4 million streams served from midday June 2 through June 4; 3.7 million unique…
First Look: DisneyChannel.com Broadband
Since we spent some time on ABC.com’s sophisticated video player, thought it might be worth looking at the quite different DisneyChannel.com…
DisneyChannel.com Ad-Supported Broadband Launches Friday; Jetix.tv Already Live
Updated: The streaming plans unveiled back in Feburary for DisneyChannel.com are scheduled to become reality Friday. The setup includes a cu…
@ D: Bob Iger, CEO of Disney: Multiple Windows; User-Gen; Disney.com Portal
Bob Iger, the CEO of Disney, had a relatively easier time at the D conference…Kara’s easier on them. I found his somewhat blase attitude t…
Disney Joins CinemaNow Download-To-Own Roster
Effective Tuesday, some Disney films are available as downloads for sale at CinemaNow; the deal includes releasing films the day they come o…
ABC.com Update: New Use; Full Season Of Alias, Commander
When a cut cable left 190,000 St. Louis-area households unable to see the finale of “Lost” on Charter, the Post-Dispatch reports ABC affilia…
Iger Updates ABC.com Numbers; About 3 Million Streams Served
At Tuesday’s ABC upfront, Anne Sweeney said more than 2 million streams had been served since the May 1 start of ABC.com’s full-episode tria…
Movielink, CinemaNow Are “Hostile” Purchase Options: Critic
MovieLink and Cinema Now’s download purchase services come under more criticism, this time a scathing review from Washington Post tech colum…
Earnings: Iger: DIS Exploring P2P Distribution; Streaming “Not An Experiment”
Bob Iger may be one of the only CEOs who could get away with watching “Desperate Housewives” during earnings prep … During Tuesday’s earni…
Optus And Disney Team Up
Optus (the number two telco in Australia) has signed a wide-ranging content deal with Disney. The deal will mainly offer free Disney content…
It’s Official: Pixar Is Part Of Disney Now
A deal that at times looked like it could never happen is finally complete as Pixar shareholders vote yea. Disney will issue 2.3 shares per…
Show’s Drop From ABC Sked Affects Streaming Experiment
ABC’s decision to yank “Commander In Chief” off the air not only irks me personally (as does much of the way it has been handled all along),…
From NAB: Digital Deal Ramp Up Increases Delivery Anxiety
It’s not as sexy as ad-supported streaming housewives but Disney announced a short-term experiment of a different sort during NAB — a trial…
First Look: ABC.com’s Ad-Supported Streaming “Experiment”
Disney’s latest experiment in online video officially began overnight with single episodes of four prime-time shows: “Lost,” “Desperate Hous…
Disney To Launch MVNO In UK
Later this year…Disney Mobile, the MVNO from Disney, will make its way to the UK later this year, the company said today…it will use O2’…
Channel 4 in Online VOD Deal With Disney, First Such UK Deal
So Disney jumps in on online VOD of its shows in UK as well, after doing such deal in U.S. over the last six months or so…its syndication…
@ NAB: New NAB CEO Rehr On RIAA, ETC.
NAB president and CEO David Rehr sat down with a few reporters as the conference drew to a close. In between juggling questions about gettin…
@ Milken: Chernin, Iger and Miller: The Shape Of Things And Things To Come
The last panel of the day at the Milken Institute conference was a heavy hitter one: Peter Chernin of News Corp, Bob Iger of Disney and Jona…
@ NAB: One Affiliate’s Response To Sweeney
Anne Sweeney’s message to affiliates at NAB Tuesday didn’t fall on deaf ears; an indirect response from Terry Mackin, SVP-Hearst-Argyle Tele…
@ NAB: Sweeney: “Technology Is Additive”
Anne Sweeney, co-chair, Disney Media Networks and president, Disney-ABC Television Group, is using her keynote time at an NAB lunch to pitch…
From CTIA: Disney Mobile: Interview, Steve Wadsworth, President, Walt Disney Internet Group
[By Staci D. Kramer] The question from a colleague came up enroute to the Las Vegas Convention Center for Disney Mobile’s unveiling: Wasn’t…
More ABC-Streaming Reactions: What Happens To Portals?
Some more reactions and analysis on ABC’s decision to stream its shows online, for free:
— The ABCs of video upheaval: Portals should race…
ABC’s Streaming: Reactions: ESPN Unlikely To Follow; Others
ABC’s announcement yesterday to stream shows online, free, has generated a lot of comments from others in the industry: some reactions and f…
Mobile ESPN Resets Sanyo Handset Price To $99
By lowering the price of its only handset — the oh-so-sleek Sanyo — ESPN lowers the cost of entry for Mobile ESPN considerably. When trial…
@ NCTA: Mobile ESPN Resets Sanyo Handset Price To $99
By lowering the price of its only handset — the oh-so-sleek Sanyo — ESPN lowers the cost of entry for Mobile ESPN considerably. When trial…
@ NCTA: Newest Disney-ABC Broadband Channel: Soapnetic Launches On Verizon Apr. 17
Disney-ABC Television is adding soaps to its current roster of broaband channels ESPN360, ABC News Now and Disney Connection with the April…
@ CTIA: Disney Mobile Announcement Is “Mickey Mouse”
Disney may be the only company where calling something “Mickey Mouse” would be considered a compliment, not an insult. In true Disney fashio…
@ Billboard Mecca: Early Candidate For Line Of The Day
Tom Wheeler To Disney’s Larry Shapiro when his Mobile ESPN phone went off during “The Art of the Deal” panel, suggesting it’s the only venue…
ABC Shows To Go Subscription On iTunes
ABC is making “Desperate Housewives” and “Lost” the first network entertainment shows available for download on a subscription basis via App…
@ OMMA Hollywood: Role of Distributors Like Yahoo and Google Threatened?
This morning, I did my first ever moderation job (spoken on countless panels…this was the first time doing what I do for a living: asking…
Disney’s $50 Million MVNO Ad Campaign; Hires Agency
Disney Mobile, the next MVNO to launch from the Wal Disney stable (after Mobile ESPN) is anticipated to launch this summer with a $50 millio…
TelecomNEXT: Iger: More Than 4 Million iTunes-Disney Downloads; No New Laws Needed For Net Neutrali
When the the roster of speakers for this year’s TelecomNEXT includes Disney CEO Bob Iger, you know the telecom universe is shifting gears. T…
Disney Channel Movie Being Sold On iTunes; Network Says It’s A One-Off For Now
: Another first for Apple and Disney: Disney Channel hit “High School Musical” becomes the first movie — albeit made for cable — to be sol…
ABC’s Streaming Experiment To Start Next Month
I’m presuming this is the “myABC” service which we mentioned last month…ABC will run a test of online streaming of its network channel onl…
Disney Shareholder Meeting: ABC Shows For Free on ABC.com, Soon
So said Bob Iger, CEO of Disney, at the Disney shareholders meeting today at the Arrowhead Pond near Disneyland. He said ABC TV shows, some…
Cingular Video: Cable Model For Mobile TV
Cingular is expanding the 3G Cingular Video service launched as a premium with HBO into a full-scale service that looks a lot like the cable…
Disney’s Cable Kid Flick Hit Spurs Music Downloads
Musical Disney Channel hit “High School Musical” — think “Fame” circa 2006 — is spurring what USA Today calls a “an online buying frenzy.”…
Iger Outlines Plans For MyABC; More Downloads, Ad-supported Models
ABC will offer ad-supported shows via a new service called MyABC, Disney CEO Bob Iger told analysts and investors during a Bear Stearns pres…
Skeptics Wonder If Iger Can Pull It Off?
Disney’s stock is up 17 percent since downloads through iTunes began but not everyone is impressed with Disney CEO Bob Iger’s recent moves.…
Disney CFO: iTunes, Other New Methods Won’t Be Material For Years; Internet Revenue Hits $500 Milli
Disney SVP and CFO Tom Staggs (isn’t it time to just call him COO) told UBS investors to remember that iTunes and other new distribution met…
About The Box: The “Topple Factor”
Dennis Haarsager writes about the Moviebeam relaunch on his blog, and picks up what I mentioned in passing in my comment yesterday about get…
Unsolicited Advice To Moviebeam: Get Rid Of The Box
For Moviebeam’s new reincarnation: the same advice I had for Akimbo last year: The box, man…get rid of the box… .
Tangentially, does thi…
Disney Channel To Add Ad-Supported Streaming Of Top Series
The Disney Channel will adding another facet to its multiplatform video strategy this spring with ad-supported on-demand streams of several…
Earnings: Disney Analysts’ Call: Iger Stresses Multiplatform Plans: Audio
Work in progress. Disney CEO Bob Iger wasn’t bluffing when he said the call would cover a lot of ground. He started with a few words about t…
Earnings: ABC Radio To Merge With Citadel; Disney FY1Q06 Earnings Per Share Up 12 Percent
: Work in progress. Disney CEO Bob Iger continues to remake the company, first with the agreement to acquire Pixar and now with a proposal t…
Moviebeam Recapitalized; Gets $52.5 Million in Funding; Spun Off From Disney
Moviebeam, the doomed movie delivery service from Disney, is being revived again, and has been recapitalized in a series E funding round, ac…
@ NATPE 2006: Experimenting For Dollars
One of the better panels this week, moderated by Eric Frankel, President, Warner Bros. Domestic Cable Distribution. No easy answers, though,…
Disney-Pixar: Jobs Countdown For DIS CEO?; iTunes Conflicts?
News.com has been doing a great job with the Disney-Pixar deal, with its package of news stories and Hollywood/new-media implications analys…
@ NATPE 2006: MVNO Not For Everyone
The setting: a “think tank” panel with the title “Digital Strategies: Evolve and Prosper” featuring four senir digital media and entertainm…
Disney-Pixar: Some Digital Media Possibilities
I gave an interview to a business newspaper about the Disney-Pixar deal and its digital media implications…some points which I think might…
Disney-Pixar Conference Call: Some Digital Media-Related Details From It
Not much in prepared remarks, and no one asked much about the digital implications of the deal. Only Anthony Noto asked a bit about it:
— B…
Early Reaction To Disney-Pixar
Some early reaction to the Disney-Pixar deal…as always, we’ll focus on the digital media and deal aspects:
— Fred Wilson: How does 740 ti…
CNBC Interview Audio: Steve Jobs & Bob Iger
Prior to the conference call going on now, Steve Jobs and Bob Iger gave an 8-minute interview to CNBC, and we have the audio…they talked a…
It’s official: DISNEY BUYS PIXAR
More to come…the announcement is official: Disney is buying Pixar in an all-stock transaction worth $7.4 billion.
An investor conference c…
Board Clears Iger To Seal Disney-Pixar Deal
So reports WSJ, NYT, BusinessWeek and NYpost:
— WSJ: On Sunday and Monday, Disney’s board discussed the advanced negotiations and gave Dis…
@ NATPE Mobile ++: TV To Go
iHollywood Forum likes to move very fast so we segued from Ross Levinsohn’s keynote into a brief appearance from sponsor Smart Video and str…
Disney-Pixar: React Frenzy Underway
The trial balloons have been floated, the Street didn’t reject the notion of a Disney acquisition of Pixar, and, as far as we know, the deal…
Disney-Pixar: Deal Could Change Digital Landscape
A Pixar acquisition by Disney on its own would just be viewed as a hefty M&A deal. But Steve Jobs would come along with the deal — as the l…
Disney Considering Acquisition of Pixar; Jobs Could Become Largest Individual Disney Shareholder: WS
(sub. req.) Disney’s dealings with Apple are interesting but its connection with Pixar Animation Studios is close to vital — and a top prio…
ABC Downloads from iTunes Exceed 1.5 Million; Not Reductive on Syndication
Disney CFO Tom Staggs had a conference call with analysts earlier today (archived webcast here), and spoke at length about the company’s dea…
Broadband Channels Launches Roundup: Disney Preschool; The Fix
Couple of decent “broadband channels” launched in the last couple of days:
— Playhouse Disney Preschool: Disney has launched an online subs…
ABC News Tries Day-Pass Option For ABC NewsNow
Broadband channel ABC NewsNow is now available for free in exchange for viewing an ad (it started last week, from what we know); the current…
The New Digital Disney
Missed this one last week: Fortune does a good story on Disney’s new CEO Bob Iger and his openeness in embracing the digital future. Does Ig…
More On ABC News-BBC News Distribution Deal
The official announcement on the distribution deal we reported earlier today just came out. BBC News will provide about 40 on-demand reports…
@ CES 2006: Exclusive: ABC News Cuts Deal To Distribute BBC News In North America; No Deal With Goog
You’re reading it here first … ABC News Digital Group has signed an exclusive deal with BBC Worldwide to distribute BBC News broadband an…
@ CES 2006: Interview: Bernard Gershon, SVP & GM, ABCNews.com
[Staci D. Kramer] Bernie Gershon spent a few minutes after his Mobile Entertainment session Wednesday giving us a quick update on ABCNews.co…
ABC News Debuts Online World News Webcast
ABC has debuted a new version of its flagship new program World News Tonight, with the new anchors, and as part of that, is launching a 15-m…
Disney Dumps A Motherload Of Content On iTunes
Disney is making the most serious go at it when it comes to distributing video content through iTunes…it has announced deals for ESPN/ABC…
Disney’s ISP Distribution Wins
Disney has been quietly signing up ISPs are broadband distribution partners, this story says…In addition to its splashy deal to provide ex…
ABC Adds “Commander In Chief ” To iTunes Line-up; Video Consumers: The Gift That Keeps On Giving
I’ve been waiting for this one. I’d guess “Grey’s Anatomy” will be next if they can work out the rights kinks. Price: $1.99, just like the…
Disney On The Mobile For Thailand
The Walt Disney Internet Group (WDIG) has extended its agreement with MovieSeer to develop and distribute Disney branded mobile content into…
@ Media Week: Disney: More Than 800,000 Downloads Of ABC Shows So Far
Disney SVP/CFO Tom Staggs told investors and analysts at CSFB that iTunes has sold some 800,000 downloads of ABC’s “Lost” and “Desperate Hou…
ABC’s New “World News Tonight” Includes Major Online Webcast Component
ABC News has announced new anchors for its flaship new program “World News Tonight”: Elizabeth Vargas and Bob Woodruff. Among other changes,…
Iger On Disney’s iPod Deal and M&As
WSJ has an interview with Disney CEO Bob Iger, on how his company did the deal with Apple for the video downloads to iPod, and other issues.…
@ DEMXPO: Anne Sweeney, President, Disney-ABC Television Group
At the DEMXPO conference this morning…Anne Sweeney, Co-Chairman, Media Networks, The Walt Disney Company, and President, Disney-ABC Televi…
Earnings: Disney’s Profit Drops 27 Percent In FY4Q05; More Download Deals Possible
Considerable interest in download strategy during the Disney FY4Q05/FY05 earnings call. Disney president and CEO Bob Iger: “The consumer has…
Mobile ESPN Could Launch With $2-Plus Million In Sponsorships
Already in four test markets, Mobile ESPN is working on six charter sponsorship deals said to be worth $350,000, according to Sports Busines…
ESPN Reaches Deal With NHL On New Media/Mobile Rights
Well, if it is not TV, then might as well be new media: ESPN has tied up with National Hockey league for new media and ESPN Classic rights..…
Disney Buys German Mobile Gaming Company Living Mobile
A small deal, but is Disney’s first digital media acquisition in a long time…it has bought out German mobile gaming developer and publishe…
ABC/ESPN Get Soccer World Cup Rights; Major New Media Component
International scoccer body FIFA has awarded U.S. TV and new media rights rights to the 2010 and 2014 World Cups for a record $425 million, t…
TNT, ESPN Emphasize Broadband, Multimedia For 2005-06 NBA Season (sub. req.)
TNT is launching a new broadband service Nov. 17 with daily input from its NBA coverage team. TNT Broadband will hang off NBA.com; Turner wa…
Disney May Launch UK Mobile Service
Disney is said to be considering an MVNO in the UK..it is headhunting executives from similar mobile services there. The story says that Dis…
Controversy Over Possible UK Disney MVNO
Disney is rumored to be considering an MVNO in the UK because the company is headhunting executives there. “Disney would be risking controve…
ESPN Phone To Launch At Super Bowl; Best Buy Gets 60 Day Retail Exclusive
Mobile ESPN, the sports MVNO in the works for nearly a year, is placing its bet on Best Buy as the chain most likely to help it achieve laun…
Disney’s Video Push
Disney plans to put more content onto the iTunes for consumption of video iPod, by early next year, the recently-appointed executive VP of d…
Movies.com Boosting Editorial Coverage
Disney-owned Movies.com is getting a makeover: the largely informational website is boosting editorial coverage and adding Hollywood gossip…
Next-Day Downloads Of “Lost” Could Disrupt TV Station Economics
The disruption of the TV station time-space continuum has been predicted so often that it’s tempting to dismiss it this time around. The con…
Creative Associations Call For Cut of Apple iPod Vido Deal
You’re surprised this happened? If you were, you weren’t reading our site closely enough…now five unions representing actors, writers and…
Weekend Reading: ipod Video-ABC Announcement: How Bob Iger Saved Network TV
Mark Cuban has an eloquent reeasoning on why the Apple iPod video and Disney-ABC deal makes a lot of sense.”What if CBS sold Survivor episod…
iPod Video-ABC: Affiliate Worries Part II
(see part I here) More worries surface after the Apple iPod video deal with ABC-Disney, as the rights issues are very complex in any such TV…
iPod Video-ABC Deal Issues: Affiliates Reactions; DVD Sales
Some interesting issues are arising out of the Apple ipod video deal with ABC-Disney: fist is the reaction of affiliates, second is how the…
iPod Video: The ABC Deal
Some more details on the potentially groundbreaking Apple-ABC deal on iPod video:
— Business 2.0 hinted the deal a few months ago, here……
Industry Moves: ESPN Reorg Makes John Skipper Content Czar
The total realignment at ESPN today follows the departure of programming head Mark Shapiro; responsibilities previously scattered across the…
Iger’s Disney Era Starts; Focus on Digital
(sub. req.): A new ear starts at Disney: new CEO Bob Iger started today, adn as this WSJ story mentions, the focus will be, to a large exten…
Disney Fine-Tunes Wireless Scheme
Disney is busy working out the kinks of its planned MVNO…there are some interesting points from the article:
Disney thinks a customized ha…
Disney To Offer MP3 Player Aimed At 6-12 Year Olds (sub. req.)
:Disney already brands TV sets, DVD players and other consumer electronics aimed at children so a $49 MP3 player for the grade-school set is…
“ESPN Mobile” Rebrands As “Mobile ESPN”
Seriously. I couldn’t make this stuff up. My colleague James Pearce has the rundown on sister site MocoNews.net, along with more details. So…
ESPN Releases MVNO Details
Disney’s ESPN has announced some details about its upcoming MVNO, which has been rebranded from ESPN Mobile to Mobile ESPN, which is a subtl…
Disney Looking To Sell Off Moviebeam Assets
Speaking of Disney’s digital content efforts, it is looking to sell of most of its stake in the failed digital movie delivery venture Movieb…
Disney TV to Explore Global VOD & DVR
Looks like Disney is planning to repeat its Moviebeam failure: Walt Disney Television International is exploring the potential for global de…
ESPN Thinks Outside The TV Set — And Then Some
In the 15 years since then-ESPN CEO Steve Bornstein started to think outside the TV set, the network has moved onto just about every platfor…
Earnings: Disney’s CEO-Elect Iger On Consumer Power and Technology
Some earnings calls are a wasteland of pro forma responses. During the Disney 3Q05 call, though, I thought I heard something worth getting v…
Earnings: Disney’s “Open Mike” Eisner
: Updated: The official Disney earnings call got underway with a tribute to Peter Jennings — after a couple of unscheduled minutes featurin…
Earnings: Disney Media Networks Revs Up 16 Percent for FY3Q05
The Walt Disney Company reported a 16-percent hike in revenues from its Media Networks segment, compared to a 15-percent drop in revenue for…
Networks Continue To Stake Out Broadband Turf Away From Home
Updated: You might think cable and broadcast nets would keep their broadband services close to home as a draw and marketing tool. Using that…
Interview: Manish Jha, ESPN SVP-Mobile; MVNO Update
I caught up with Manish Jha, SVP-mobile for ESPN, after his keynote at iHollywood’s Mobile Entertainment Summit this morning for an update o…
Apple’s Video Plans, Part 3: Talks With Disney
More on Apple’s video plans: B2.0 editor-at-large Paul Sloan says that Apple is speaking to Disney. “Steve Jobs has spoken with Disney Presi…
Interview: George Grobar, SVP & GM, Disney Mobile
This week, the Walt Disney Internet Group formally announced the long-awaited Disney Mobile MVNO and the management team that would lead the…
Disney MVNO: More Details
We’re all over Disney MVNO announcement and more details throughout the day:
— FT: The agreement consolidates Sprint’s position as the lead…
Disney's New Mobile Service: Details
As we reported earlier, Disney has announced its MVNO…some more details whihc we’ll update throughout the day:
— Disney MVNO Launch: New…
Disney MVNO Launch: New Executive Appts.
As we reported earlier, Disney has announced its MVNO…George Grobar, a 10-year Disney veteran, will lead the venture as senior VP and GM…
Disney Brand MVNO En Route — Finally
The long-awaited Disney-brand MVNO is finally slated to be announced Wednesday, according to the Wall Street Journal. As is the case with ES…
Industry Moves: Disney Hires Internet Execs To Head Strategy & Acquisitions
Walt Disney has tapped Internet exec and consultant Kevin Mayer, along with former TiVo and NBC alum Marty Yudkovitz, to head a new Corporat…
ABC News Extends, Expands Deal With MobiTV for Live News, On Demand
ABCNews.com is re-upping with MobiTV for a multi-year contract that in cludes live news channel ABC News Now and on-demand content including…
Incoming Disney CEO: Digital Is Important
Seems like all media conglom heads are switching gears and chanting the digital mantra: first it was Rupert Murdoch, with his now-famous spe…
Disney Internet Buys European iTV Game Developer
The Walt Disney Internet Group has acquired UK-based Minds Eye Productions, one of Europe’s leading interactive TV game developers. The fina…
Disney Plans Worldwide “Roadblock” for Movie Trailer
This is an example of hype to build up to more hype: Disney is planning a multichannel, worldwide “roadblock” simulcast of a new movie trail…
Disney To Close MovieBeam in 3 Cities
This was expected: as I reported last year, Disney was having a lot of trouble in making its digital movie delivery service Moviebeam viable…
Disney Launches DVD/Music Player For Kids
Disney’s experimentation in hardware continues: it has launched a portable DVD and CD players targeted at young consumers. The personal DVD…
Disney Online’s Video Efforts
An interview with Ken Goldstein, executive VP and managing director of Disney Online, on the company’s video efforts…
“What we’ve seen cha…
Disney To Revive Starwave As Mobile Content Brand
(sub. req.) (More details as they come in) Coinciding with CTIA, Disney is announcing the launch of a mobile content brand, under “Starwave…
ABCNews.com Does a Major Redesign
(via LR) ABCNews.com has done a major re-design…call it the undesign. White space is back, and the trademark blue has been toned down…
A…
Disney Board Aims to Find New CEO by June
Walt Disney’s board of directors said on Tuesday it planned to find a replacement for CEO Michael Eisner by next June and then search for a…
Yahoo CEO Emerges As Disney CEO Contender
:As Walt Disney begins its search for a new CEO by 2006, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel has emerged among Hollywood insiders as a top contender, repo…
Peter Jennings on News & Technology
(Real Audio File) Peter Jennings of ABC News was the guest on “Talk of the City” on KPCC radio…and he had some interesting things to say a…
Disney Delays MovieBeam Expansion
Oh well…Disney’s delaying the expansion of its movie service Moviebeam (I reported earlier last month on the heavy investment the service…
ABC.com Users to Access Extras with SuperPass
ABC Television Network’s ABC.com has launched a broadband programing offering that will include highlights, extended footage, commentary and…
Is ABC Entering the 24-Hour News Biz?
ABC News Now, the brainchild of ABC News president David Westin, is a shrewd move to tap into the ever-increasing ways folks can keep up wit…
Disney’s Moviebeam Investment Reaching $70 Million Mark
Disney, which announced its Q2 results today, has an interesting bit in its filed 10-Q statement: its on-demand movie service Moviebeam is…
Disney’s Kiddie PC and Content
This is so dumb, it is brilliant…Disney will launch a “Disney Dream Desk PC” next week, aimed at kids. The PC will be loaded with Disney-r…
Industry Moves: Disney Promotes Tech Exec Lambert
Disney has upped Bob Lambert to senior VP for worldwide media technology and development…Lambert’s expanded role has him continuing to lea…
Disney Aims at Video Renters with New Moviebeam
So this is how it works: Starz and RealNetworks come out with a PR blitz for their new online movie service, and then the other rival movie…
Disney Plans Online Game ‘Theme Park’
Disney has revealed plans for a major Internet ‘theme park’, where classic Disney movies will be made into multi-player online games and pro…
Disney Internet Group Launches Family Motion
FamilyFun TV, the latest in a series of Web video products to unspool under the Disney Internet Group banner, went live on Tuesday with fami…
ABC News Forms New Digital Unit
What did I say about companies beginning to start digital/online ventures again? This time it is ABC News, which has formed a new ABC News D…
Disney To Revive Go.com?
Seriously, please don’t…the last thing this world needs is another portal. Regardless, Disney has signed a deal with GameUniverse, a divis…
One Cable Company to Rule Them All
Comcast’s bid to buy Disney raises a specter even scarier than the witch in Snow White: A Mickey Mouse Internet. Salon.com’s Farhad Manjoo i…
Disney to Launch Mobile Content Aggregation Brand
Disney is set to launch a new brand for a major initiative aggregating mobile content from a range of third-party rights-holders. It’s curre…
Gates Dismisses Disney Rumors
Microsoft will not get involved in any potential acquisition of Disney, Bill Gates clarified last week. “We’re not going to be involved in i…
Disney Expands Content Deal With Vodafone
Disney has expanded its already robust deal with Vodafone: besides Japan and Europe, Disney’s content will now available to Vodafone live! c…
Disney Touts Net Strategy, Again
Yes dear, its coming back… Walt Disney’s head of Internet group Steve Wadsworth said on Wednesday its wireless and high-speed Internet off…
Comcast Bid Ripples Through Disney Internet Group
Disney Internet Group, based in Seattle, is nervous about Comcast’s unsolicited bid for Disney, according to this story. If the deal goes th…
Disney Rejects Comcast Offer
Walt Disney’s board of directors voted unanimously Monday to reject Comcast’s $56 billion bid, saying the offer was too low…But the Disney…
Disney Interested in Launching ESPN Phone Service
So it seems Disney prefers to launch a sports-related cell phone rather than a Mickey phone, at least in U.S. Or maybe both would be explore…
Microsoft Weighs Options and Keeps Its Cards Close
Microsoft has three options in the Comcast- Disney takeover fight: play the savior, the banker or stay on the sidelines. Analysts doubt that…
Time Warner May Now Be Eyeing Disney
Tell me we’re in some Warholian joke, please. Time Warner is weighing a possible bid for Walt Disney Co. to counter Comcast’s surprise hosti…
Digitizing Disney, Or Just A Doodle?
A roundup of what the digital media implications of the deal, if it goes through:
News.com I: Disney Deal to Reshape On-Demand Media: So thi…
What a Comcast-Disney Might Mean to Microsoft
The always prolific Joe Wilcox hammers out his thoughts on what all of this may mean for Microsoft, especially since it has close relationsh…
Comcast’s Press Conference: Digital Media Details
() Download the PDF presentation of the press conference here…also, download the conference call transcript here)
— Brian Roberts, CEO, C…
Comcast Makes a Bold Bid for Disney, Hinged on Broadband Synergies
(Update: Comcast will be holding a press conference in NYC at 11 AM EST today at St. Regis Hotel..rush there if you’re near, or listen to it…
Disney Fueling The Rise Of Datacasting
A feature story on the technology behind Disney’s movie-on-demand service Moviebeam…
Will Disney’s MovieBeam Cut It This Time?
Disney’s VOD movie service, MovieBeam, is now in test stage in a few cities across U.S., and seems to be getting a good response…Disney ch…
ABC News Online Service Turns to Profit
ABC News Online, the online division of ABC, has turned to a profit this year and the new October quarter, fueled by its broaband subscripti…
Walt Disney Internet Group Goes Wireless
Don’t get too excited…it is just a new dedicated mobile content site from Disney…
Disney High-Tech Turnaround?
Somehow, I am not as sure as NYDN seems to be…”Disney is really taking a much more aggressive approach than the other companies,” said Tom…
Disney Plans Expansion of Mobile Content Offering
This is the 99th story talking about Disney’s first foray into mobile content…I am confused.
Anyway, the telecom industry is scared that D…
Disney, Time Warner Try Video Delivery Alternatives
An some more overiew on what Disney and Time Warner are trying on VoD: one is going the IP route, another is going the over-the-air broadcas…
Disney Relaunches Site With Whizbangs
Yeah, like Disney Motion and locomotion…
Disney: The Mouse That Roams?
A rather clueless article on how Disney is trying to make inroads into the mobile content space…the story completely confuses the media co…
Disney’s MovieBeam Will Fade Like a Moonbeam
(via Boing Boing) Or so thinks James Cramer, in a rant. “My prediction: There’s a $100 million write-off headed Disney’s way. This venture r…
No Late Fees: Disney Will ‘Beam’
(sub req.): Disney has launched Moviebeam, a low-cost effort to deliver movies from most of the Hollywood studios directly into homes, where…
ABCNews.com Lauches Online Political Program
ABCNews.com’s ABC News Live service, the premium online feed which is carried on RealNetworks’ (NSDQ: RNWK) RealOne service, is launching an…
ESPN Plans New Moves for Web Video Services
ESPN has new moves in store to expand its high-speed Internet video service “ESPN Motion”: primary among those include “some TiVo functional…
Disney Surveying Mobile Frontier
“We’re at the tip of the iceberg of what can be the true third screen: the PC, the television and the wireless device,” said Walt Disney Int…
Disney Considers Entering Crowded Wireless Sector
Walt Disney is in early discussions with several wireless companies and handset makers to offer cellphone services under various brand names…
ABCNews.com To Launch Browser Toolbar
Interesting, though a minor move: ABCNews.com will start offering a co-branded browser toolbar, using Dogpile technology…Dogpile is a meta…
Disney And the Super Fast Internet
Paul Carr casts a wary–yet enthusiastic–eye on efforts to develop the super fast Internet (up to 6,000 times faster) and the news that th…
So It Has Come to This
: “In a nation famous for its adoration of Mickey and friends, signing Disney was a coup for NTT and underscored its determination to win su…
NTT to Offer Disney Branded Broadband in Japan
Japan’s NTT and Walt Disney have agreed to offer a Disney-branded high-speed Internet service to draw Japanese families online. Called “Disn…
ABC Goes Broadband
ABC.com has launched its broadband content platform (desktop app, really) Wednesday called ABC Motion. Initially, consumers will get a packa…
Disney Ties Up With Vodafone on Mobile Content Deal
Walt Disney is teaming up with Vodafone to offer Disney-branded cartoons, games and music…Under the deal, clips and messages featuring Dis…
ABC To Launch Desktop Multi-Media Push App
Disney will launch a desktop multi-media push application for ABC, pushing TV clips to people’s desktops daily, a move that takes a page fro…
ABC News Live Pulls Service From Yahoo, AOL; Only on RealOne
Spin it as you want to, this is what it is. ABC News Live, the online broadband channel from ABC News, will now only be available on RealNet…
Walt Disney May Offer Movies To T-Online
Walt Disney is in talks with German telecom company T-Online to offer movies on demand, online, according to this translated version of the…
ABC Online Names Anchor
Alina Cho has been named correspondent for ABC News Live, a position that gives her anchor and reporter responsibilities for the 24-hour bro…
Disney to Launch an Umbrella Subscription Service for Broadband
The Walt Disney Internet Group is going to launch an umbrella subscription brand for its Disney-branded services, tentatively called “Disne…
Disney Unveils Toontown Game, Sees Web Theme Park
Walt Disney will launch in June its online multiplayer video game Toontown, which pits cartoon characters against humorless robots, with an…
Orange Signs for Walt Disney Content
European telecom operator Orange and Walt Disney Internet Group have signed a European content distribution agreement, giving Orange custome…
Disney and the Art of Entertainment
A comprehensive interview on Disney’s digital plans, and its future, with Attila Gazdag, Managing Director of the Walt Disney Internet Group…
Digital Disneyland
Guess which company is poised to dominate the online game market for children: Disney, with its Toontown gaming service.
ABCNews.com Names Producer
ABCNews.com has named Randy Stearns executive producer in charge of editorial and production for the site’s all-hours news service.
Disney Plans to Be on Digital Frontier
(free registration): Walt Disney Chairman Michael Eisner said Monday at NAB that his company would not let the threat of piracy keep it from…
ABC News Live Added to Yahoo Platinum
Any guesses on how soon Yahoo Platinum and RealOne service would start to look like clones of each other? Yahoo?s brand new Platinum video s…
ABCNews.com May Turn a Profit This Year
ABCNews.com may turn a profit this year as more high-speed Internet users agree to pay for video content, according to Bernard Gershon, GM o…
Will ABCNews.com’s Move Be Followed
Will ABCNews.com’s Move Be Followed by Others?: Hard to tell, but as I said before, I would have expected CNN.com and MSNBC.com to be the fi…
ABCNews.com Launches 24-Hours Online News
ABCNews.com Launches 24-Hours Online News Channel: And I thought CNN.com or MSNBC.com would beat them to it…ABCNews.com plans to launch a…
Disney Launches Broadband Version of its Subscription Blast Service
Disney Online has launched a broadband version of Disney’s Blast, the premium online subscription service for kids that provides weekly upda…
ABCNews.com GM Mulls ‘DAM’ Future:
ABCNews.com GM Mulls ‘DAM’ Future: As ABC News’ online division pursues more paying customers and wider distribution deals, the site needs t…
How Disney Internet Group Moved
How Disney Internet Group Moved Past Go (free registration required): An interview with DIG’s executive VP Larry Shapiro about how the compa…
ESPN Puts Ads Into Video Clips
And why hasn’t the world come to an end yet? Anyway, if you get past this, the story is about how ESPN is using a video-caching technology t…
ABCNEWS.com and ESPN.com Sign Deal with Summus to Develop Wireless Applications
InfoSpace forms deal with ABCNews.com
InfoSpace forms deal with ABCNews.com
After Internet’s Big Bust, Broadband Shift Went On
Disney and Others Try to Cash In With Paid Multimedia Offerings. A very good analysis of the broadband revolution by WSJ, and how companies…
Disney Goes the International Wireless
Disney Goes the International Wireless Route: The Walt Disney Internet Group has signed up with a French and an Italian company to bring its…
ESPN.com Profitable
“ESPN magazine and ESPN.com, the networks’ Web site, are both profitable this year, Bodenheimer said. He declined to comment on when its bro…
Disney’s Online Sites Turn Profitable:
Disney’s Online Sites Turn Profitable: A surprisingly good piece of news for Disney’s online unit, as the company other divisions languish.…
Will Users Pay of News
Will Users Pay of News Webcasts?: Reuters analyzes whether users will pay for news webcasts, in wake of ABC News’ decision to start charging…
ABC News Launches News-On-Demand, For
ABC News Launches News-On-Demand, For $4.95 a Month: Following CNN.com’s lead, ABC News has launched a subscription service called “ABC News…
