Anne Sweeney is the longtime co-chair of Disney Media Networks and president of Disney-ABC Television Group.
Sweeney said in a statement that the use of new technologies was of "paramount importance" to the growth of the Disney Media Networks Group.
He triggered the deal with Disney just prior to a drop in both media and Disney valuations.
He triggered the deal with Disney just before a drop in the valuations of both media and Disney.
Netflix has made moves to beef up its online content, striking deals with Starz, Epix, Disney and Relativity Media.
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Over the course of next 5 years, we expect Disney and other media companies to increasingly provide on-demand content over the internet, thus growing this lucrative revenue stream.
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"Delivering ESPN3 to Optimum Online customers extends our mission to serve sports fans with thousands of live events, most of which are exclusive to the multi-screen sports network, " said Justin Connolly, Senior Vice President, National Accounts, Disney and ESPN Media Networks.
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News Corp. competes with other media conglomerates like Disney, CBS, Time Warner, Viacom and New York Times in the media and entertainment business.
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Disney and other big media companies plan to launch the ABC In-Store Network next year.
Disney competes with other media and broadcasting companies like Time Warner and News Corp .
"But we do know that social media drives engagement and can help sustain viewers' interest in what they're watching, " says Albert Cheng, executive vice president for digital media of Disney-ABC Television Group.
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Disney broadly competes with other media businesses like CBS, Viacom, Time Warner and News Corp.
Then there are earnings, which will include biotech firm Schering-Plough, courier UPS, entertainment and media company Walt Disney, and food-chain conglomerate Yum!
First, the success of this popular remake where the difference is essentially centered around the introduction of 3D technology, which highlights the importance of 3D movies in driving box office sales for media companies including Disney, Time Warner, News Corp and Viacom.
Other firms in the media industry were mixed, as Time Warner, Walt Disney and Viacom fell Monday, though New Frontier Media, Liberty Media and Outdoor Channel Holdings enjoyed gains.
Every big media company, including Disney, Time Warner and Fox, takes the same approach and have for years.
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Similarly in the case of Disney while advertising revenues for its media networks increased by 4% between 2007 and 2011, the affiliate fee grew by a staggering 44%.
Shares in some other American media giants notably Disney have also done well in the past year.
Disney did not comment on whether social media reactions directly led to the decision to withdraw the application.
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More big mergers between old-media companies like Reuters, Disney and Dow Jones and Internet kings like Yahoo, Lycos, Cisco and others.
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Prospects for media and entertainment powerhouse Walt Disney Company improved with the resolution of the National Basketball Association lockout over the Thanksgiving weekend.
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The combination would rival Disney as the world's biggest media firm.
Rounding out the top-20 list were two manufacturing firms, General Electric at No. 6 and Shell at No. 15, as well as one media and entertainment company, Disney, at No. 11.
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At the center of the dispute is bundling, the practice by media conglomerates like Viacom, Disney and Time Warner of inducing forcing, in the view of this and similar lawsuits pay TV distributors to carry scads of little-watched channels as part of their basic packages.
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This ability transformed Disney from a common-or-garden media mogul into an embodiment of the American dream, the winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and a fixture on the front cover of news magazines.
Varying by region and distributor, customers will have access to movies from the following studios and independents: 20th Century Fox, Entertainment One (eOne), Lionsgate, MGM, National Film Board of Canada, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (US), Starz Digital Media, STUDIOCANAL, The Walt Disney Studios, Universal Pictures (UK), Warner Bros.
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Some Angelenos worry that Mr Murdoch is more interested in developing a media franchise than in owning a bit of history or rubbing shoulders with sports heroes. (Sport, he believes, attracts subscribers like nothing else.) They also worry that their team is being used as a pawn in a battle between two media empires, News Corporation and Disney.
Unlike some other media companies such as News Corp and Disney, Time Warner is relatively more dependent on its cable networks business.
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On Thursday, a group of media companies including CBS, NBC and Disney joined Viacom in setting out a list of demands outlining how their content could be fairly used online.
But the last few years have super-charged this battle with the release of consecutive successful movies and several more in the offing, plus the purchase of Marvel by Disney, which effectively made this a battle of the media titans (DC is owned by Time Warner).
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