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MUMBAI: Walt Disney has said that its CEO Michael Eisner will step down in September 2006, when his contract expires. In a letter to the...
MUMBAI: The BBC is looking to sell its commercial sales and publishing division BBC Worlwide. For this purpose it has invited bids from Time Warner, Disney...
MUMBAI: Disney’s CEO Michael Eisner has finally broken his silence and has anointed company’s second-in-command, the president and COO, Bob Iger as his successor. In the...
MUMBAI: Even as Disney India is hiring professionals at all levels to help get its channels off the ground, Disney Asia has announced a top notch...
MUMBAI: The mouse house is gradually putting together its team in India. With Rajat Jain taking over as vice-president and managing director, Hema Govindan moving to...
MUMBAI: Disney has reported financial results for the third quarter ended 30 June, 2004. Revenues increased to $7,471 million from $6,377 million for the same quarter...
UTV founder-promoter Ronnie Screwvala has shown again and again that he is a smart dealmaker. He got a string of private equity funds and News Corp....
MUMBAI: In a seemingly odd turn of events, Disney and the US cable giant Comcast, who have been at loggerhead, have formed an association for a...
China may have overtaken other countries in the number of mobile phones and Star may be reaping the harvest of SMSs in the country, but in...
MUMBAI: While the industry impatiently awaits an announcement as to who will be heading Disney in India, some news on what the three channels it is...
MUMBAI: Hungama, the bilingual (Hindi and Tamil) kids’ channel floated by UTV and to be distributed by Star India, will begin airing by ‘a Sunday in...
MUMBAI: Pan-European integrated children’s entertainment broadcaster Fox Kids Europe has announced financial results for the six months ended 31 March 2004. Revenues increased by 17 per...
MUMBAI: CNBC Asia Pacific recently announced a couple of anchor appointments. They are May Lee and Sabrina Kang Prior to CNBC, Lee was with Disney’s ABC...
MUMBAI: The souring relationship between Miramax studio and its parent Walt Disney Company has triggered a war of statements. While Disney has downright given Miramax the...
MUMBAI: The Walt Disney Company might disown its film unit Miramax. Reports suggest that Disney ceo Michael Eisner is considering the sale of the studio back...
MUMBAI: Fighting all odds, director Michael Moore’s award-winning documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 is now scheduled for a 25 June release as it has picked up a US...
MUMBAI: After Viacom what does Mel Karmazin have next up his sleeve? That is the big question doing the rounds of US media circles. There has...
MUMBAI: Miramax chiefs Harvey and Bob Weinstein are preparing a deal to personally buy Michael Moore’s award winning documentary Fahrenheit 9/11. Hollywood studio Miramax, a subsidiary...
MUMBAI: Putting an end to a stream of negative headlines it had been creating in the recent past, Walt Disney Co. has come up with something...
MUMBAI: There is no word still on when Disney will make its India debut but there is action happening elsewhere in Asia. Preschool educational ‘Playhouse Disney...
MUMBAI: The Walt Disney Company board meeting couldn’t spring any surprises. The embattled chief executive officer Michael Eisner got a breather as the company’s board of...
MUMBAI: They call it Spring at Disney – the Disney corporate board meeting held every April. This year’s meet, that is currently underway, happens to be...
MUMBAI: Even as it grapples with major corporate restructuring, Disney broadcast network ABC has announced the relaunch of its popular show Millionaire . To be rechristened...
MUMBAI: Rich Ross will be the new Disney Channel Worldwide president. The announcement was made by Walt Disney Media Networks co-chairman and ABC Television president Anne...
MUMBAI: Looks like the Western is turning out to be a shaky bet for movie studios. Last year The Missing turned into a loss making proposition...
MUMBAI: For quite a while now ABC has struggled to bring in the ratings and compete with the other three US broadcast networks NBC, CBS and...
MUMBAI: It’s an on-line attack! With on-line services building up, change is in store for Hollywood’s current, profitable packaged goods business model predicts In-Stat/MDR report. Since...
MUMBAI: Number 13 seems lucky for Walt Disney Co. A 13-year legal battle that the Little Big Mouse has been fighting to protect its proprietership over...
MUMBAI: Cheers, whistles, applause and a standing ovation! The 1st Shaf IBM FICCI BAF Awards held last evening had the (100 plus audience) on their feet...
MUMBAI: The launch of its channels in India may be delayed but in the rest of the Asia Pacific region, the mouse is not wasting time...
MUMBAI: There is some positive news for Disney’s beleagured broadcast network ABC. Its broadcast of the 76 Academy Awards on 29 February did much better than...
MUMBAI: The Comcast – Disney drama takes a new turn every week since it all began with the unsolicited bid that the US cable giant made...
MUMBAI: Publication Fortune magazine has reported that Walt Disney is America’s most admired entertainment company The magazine conducted a survey of top entertainment industry executives, directors...
MUMBAI: Looks like merger mania is on! Only days after Comcast made it’s bid for the Walt Disney Company, comes the news that Sony may be...
MUMBAI: Now Mickey and Minnie Mouse will have the likes of Kermit and Miss Piggy for company. Walt Disney and The Jim Henson Company have announced...
MUMBAI: Even after the Walt Disney Company gave the thumbs down to Comcast’s unsolicited bid yesterday, the rejected yet bullish cable giant is betting that time...
MUMBAI: While a lot of speculations are being made in the media about the outcome of the Comcast-Disney merger if it does come about; here’s the...
MUMBAI: Two days after Comcast announced its bid for Disney, there seems to be no definite turn of events on the matter. But one thing for...
MUMBAI: Following the $66 billion unsolicited bid made by US cable TV biggie Comcast for the Walt Disney Company yesterday, many developments have come forth from...
MUMBAI: Given below, is the letter addressed to Disney’s Michael D Eisner from Comcast’s president and CEO Brian L Roberts. I am writing following our conversation...
MUMBAI: Cable television powerhouse Comcast Corporation today announced that it has made a proposal to The Walt Disney Company to merge the two companies in a...
MUMBAI: Microsoft Corp. and The Walt Disney Company yesterday announced a multi-year agreement to cooperate in several long-term digital media initiatives. The two companies said that...
MUMBAI: The Walt Disney Company’s board said yesterday that the campaign by two former directors, Roy Disney and Stanley Gold, to oust the chief executive, Michael...
MUMBAI: Just a few days have gone by since Disney and Pixar announced that they would go their separate ways and already the barbs are flying...
NEW DELHI: ESPN Software India, part of the Disney group, has expressed its keenness to bid for the telecast rights of cricket matches organised by the...
MUMBAI: Hollywood’s major media conglomerates are hungrily eyeing Pixar after the animation studio declined to renew its deal with Disney. Two companies said to be in...
MUMBAI: The Walt Disney company’s board of directors yesterday voted unanimously to enhance the company’s corporate governance guidelines, including the adoption of strengthened standards relating to...
NEW DELHI: It would be too optimistic to think that Star Plus and the whole Star Network would be dislodged from the top spot in 2004,...
MUMBAI: Over the years Disney and Pixar have been coming out with a number of 3D animation projects the latest being Finding Nemo. Seems like India...
HONG KONG: The GMA-7 Network of the Phillippines won the 2003 CASBAA/ABU Unicef Child Rights Award. This was presented a few days ago during a gala...
