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...Walt’s portrait hung on his wall. His career breaks have an almost cinematic quality....
...Tencent, along with Walt Disney and Endeavor, are “minority shareholders” in Epic, which the company said “continues to be controlled” by Mr Sweeney....
...Walt Disney is nearing a deal to acquire Maker Studios in a deal worth $500m which could rise to as much as $900m if certain financial conditions are met, according to people familiar with the situation....
...The Walt Disney Company has named a new head for its television arm....
...Anne Sweeney, president of the Disney-ABC television group, said the Hulu deal would not affect viewing on ABC.com....
...Walt Disney’s ABC plans to cut 200 jobs and freeze 200 vacant positions, a person close to the company said on Thursday, as part of a cost reduction effort at the entertainment group that has been stung...
...Walt Disney’s ABC television network is stepping up the number of programmes it produces and “reformats” for other countries in order to tap into growing international demand for regional content....
...Anne Sweeney, co-chair of Disney Media Networks and president of Disney-ABCTelevision Group, told the Financial Times that locally- produced shows would play a growing role for the group, funded in part...
...There are few media brands more all-American than the one Walt Disney founded 85 years ago, but its recent success has been fuelled by growing Asian, European and Latin American audiences for Disney Channel...
...Anne Sweeney, co-chair, Disney Media Networks and president of the Disney-ABC television group, said the deal was the company’s “first-ever, multi-brand wireless offering”....
...Anne Sweeney, president of the Disney-ABC television group, said local productions would further “globalise our brand.”...
...Not everyone at Disney appreciated Ms Sweeney and her team’s efforts to break out on their own....
...Content makers, such as Walt Disney, are increasingly willing to experiment with new business models....
...Ms Sweeney says. ?This is the filter you have to pass through to get Disneycontent.?...
...John Chambers, Gary Forsee, Dick Parsons, Anne Sweeney and Ed Zander all confessed they could reach Brian at a touch of a button....
...Walt Disney is to make its top TV programmes available free on the internet in a two-month trial....
...However, it could undermine an agreement that Walt Disney’s ABC network struck with Apple in October to sell episodes of top programmes, such as Desperate Housewives and Lost, through its iTunes store for...
...All these announcements followed a landmark deal by Walt Disney’s ABC network last month to sell its most popular programmes, Desperate Housewives and Lost, through Apple’s iTunes store and for replay on...
...With Respect, William Sweeney, Jr. In the course of history, every bloody action of terror had entrenched in itself some political motivation....
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