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MUMBAI:Buena Vista Home Entertainment International (BVHEI) announces its new appointment for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). The company has named Jerome Le Grand to the...
MUMBAI: As it heads towards its 11th year as basic cable’s number-one net in total programming, Nick US says that it closes 2005 owning the top...
MUMBAI: Walt Disney Television International has expanded its pay-TV presence in the Philippines with the launch of its second 24-hour channel and the only dedicated preschool...
At a well-attended function at Bajaj Bhavan, Mumbai earlier this week, presided over by renowned author, Ruskin Bond, Pratik Basu, 30-year veteran in the field of...
MUMBAI: E. Cardon “Card” Walker, who led Disney for nearly a decade and a-half following the death of co-founder Roy O. Disney, passed away a few...
MUMBAI: Buena Vista Pictures Marketing, a unit of the Walt Disney Studios announced the availability of full- screen, theatrical-quality video content from Walt Disney Pictures/Walden Media’s...
MUMBAI: Going local is surely the way forward for kids channels. Or so says Toon Disney’s report card after the channel went Hindi from 1 September....
MUMBAI: US broadcaster CBS is in discussions with the world’s most valuable media company Google for video search and on-demand video. The aim is to make...
Mumbai: Disney India is premering three-category Oscar Nominee Toy Story on Sunday, 27 November at 11 am. Toy Story is a fully computer-generated imagery animation film...
MUMBAI: This time the sky is really falling! A little goes a long way at the box office! This The past weekend, 11-13 November 2005, saw...
MUMBAI: Disney-ABC Television Group president, Ann Sweeney who is one of the most powerful woman in entertainment in the US, according to The Hollywood Reporter, Forbes...
MUMBAI: Buena Vista International Television (BVITV) has promoted Orest Olijnyk to senior VP and MD for Canada. Media reports state that Olijnyk will continue to report...
MUMBAI: Complementing Disney’s latest animated feature film, Disney Store is offering a wide selection of Chicken Little merchandise. A variety of Chicken Little themed small and...
MUMBAI: Merchandising and licensing have been setting the cash registers ringing for kids’ channels internationally. However, in India this alternative source of revenue has just about...
MUMBAI: Launching an aggressive new effort to combat piracy, The Walt Disney Studios will utilize state-of-the-art encryption technology from Cinea, a subsidiary of Dolby Laboratories, for...
MUMBAI: Apple Computer Inc. has released the much-awaited “video iPod” version, which can display album artwork plus photos, and play video including music videos, video Podcasts,...
MUMBAI: Buena Vista Games, Inc. (BVG), the interactive entertainment arm of The Walt Disney Company have made available its fun, underwater learning game, based on a...
Here are ten clues that your entire branding campaign has gone overboard. Get the lifeboats ready! One: There is a specially built underground tunnel between your...
MUMBAI: The Disney Channel has launched two new shows – American Dragon and Phil of the Future. American Dragon is an animated series. It airs on...
MUMBAI: The tweener (10 – 14 years) audience segment is currently underserved by the kids’ channels in India. Or so feels Walt Disney Television International (India)...
MUMBAI: As the war over the high definition digital versatile disc (HD DVD) format gets more fierce in the US computer firms and Blu-ray Disc Association...
MUMBAI: US communications services provider Verizon and media conglomerate Disney have signed a long-term, wide-ranging programming agreement for multiple Disney and ESPN networks and services. Under...
MUMBAI: In a move to capitalise on the booming cartoon-based toys retail market, Funskool India has entered into an agreement with The Walt Disney Company, to...
MUMBAI: Brandy & Whiskers, the latest Disney series to hit Indian television screens is the quintessential heartwarming buddy-comedy about a pampered pooch and an excitable, offbeat...
MUMBAI: The tweener (10 – 14 years) audience segment is currently underserved by the kids’ channels in India. Or so feels Walt Disney Television International (India)...
MUMBAI: US media conglomerates Disney and News Corp have donated $2.5 million and $1 million respectively towards the relief and rebuilding efforts for the victims of...
MUMBAI: Kids’ channels Disney and Nick have lined up a special fan fare for kids on the occasion of Teacher’s Day (5 September). ...
MUMBAI: Disney’s Little Einsteins, an engaging and inspiring new series for preschoolers, will premiere in a special primetime presentation from 9 October on the Disney Channel....
MUMBAI: Sony Online Entertainment’s Platform Publishing and Disney Online in association with Buena Vista Games announced an agreement that is scheduled to bring Disney’s Toontown Online,...
MUMBAI: Disney’s Kim Possible Code Tod nationwide contest has come to a close. Walt Disney managing director Rajat Jain presented the grand prize to lucky winner...
MUMBAI: Disney Publishing Worldwide will unveil to the world its latest novel, Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Egg, by Newbery Honor-winning author Gail Carson...
MUMBAI: Following the launch of Toon Disney in Tamil and Telugu, Walt Disney Television International (India) is now launching the channel with 24 hours of Hindi...
MUMBAI: Media conglomerate Disney’s board of directors have announced that they have amended its corporate governance guidelines. The amendment provides that any director who...
MUMBAI: The National Labour Committee (NLC), an anti-sweatshop advocacy group in the US, has made charges against Disney. The NLC released a videotape alleging that two...
MUMBAI: The performance of ABC and ESPN have helped boost the third quarter results of US media conglomerate Disney. Disney reported third quarter earnings of $0.41...
MUMBAI: Disney’s once-in-a-lifetime fundraising event held aboard the Disney Magic cruise ship last night generated more than $1 million for the Make-A-Wish Foundation. After Disney...
MUMBAI: Truce at last. A bitter two-year battle between two “disenfranchised” former directors and the Walt Disney Company has ended. As part of the agreement that...
MUMBAI: After launching recently in Vietnam, Palau and Thailand, the Disney Channel and its preschool sister channel Playhouse Disney have entered their fourth Asian market in...
MUMBAI: The googling phenomenon shows no signs of letting up! Less than 10 years since it was formed, internet search engine Google has overtaken traditional media...
MUMBAI: Toon Disney is celebrating Donald Duck’s birthday on 9 June with much pomp and aplomb. The channel will air a six-hour Quack Pack Marathon from...
MUMBAI: Buena Vista International Television – Asia Pacific (BVITV-AP) has concluded a new multi-year agreement with Star India for a Jetix branded block on Star One....
MUMBAI: The Walt Disney Company (India) Pvt. Ltd. has appointed Shantanu Nalavadi as director of business development with immediate effect. This was announced by The Walt...
MUMBAI:The independent members of The Walt Disney Co. board on 12 May issued a strong rebuke to two former members who have challenged the process used...
MUMBAI: Disney Channel is banking on movies for luring in audiences, lining up 180 popular hits over two months. For the first time, The Lion King...
MUMBAI: Hit Entertainment, which owns children’s characters including Bob the Builder, has said that its shareholders have approved a takeover offer of $933 million from Apax...
NEW DELHI: Walt Disney CEO Michael Eisner, who is in India on an official visit, on Tuesday, met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Eisner and his colleagues...
NEW DELHI / MUMBAI: The Walt Disney Company’s head honchos, CEO Michael Eisner and his successor Robert Iger, arrived in the capital today on the first...
MUMBAI: Monday Night Football, the most successful series in American sports television history, will move to ESPN US, ending a marathon 36-year run on ABC. An...
Just what have the Indian contingent been up to at MIPTV 2005? One thing that stands out is that stall presence is minimal. Sony Entertainment India...
MUMBAI: Forbes has released its Global 2000 annual ranking of the world’s biggest companies. No media company has made it into the top 50. Time Warner...
