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Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
J.P. Hannan submits: Last week, Bloomberg reported that "Walt Disney Co. (DIS), the second-largest U.S. media company, may sell its 10 ABC television stations, fetching as much as $4.8 billion, said David Miller, an analyst at Caris & Co. who has covered the company since 2000." This was pure speculation on the part of the analyst based on his own research and not an inside tip, according to...
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Driive (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
GM pulls sponsorship of Oscar Awards Auto Insight (press release), India - 19 minutes ago The move, which comes amid a sharp downturn in automotive advertising on television, will leave Walt Disney Co.’s ABC without one of its biggest advertisers ...
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MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
Add the Walt Disney Co. to the list of hotels using gas rebates to lure guests. The company said Monday it will randomly pick a guest who drives to its Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort for a gas rebate of $1 for every mile driven roundtrip.
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
Universal Pictures, Focus Features and Rogue Pictures are owned by NBC Universal, a unit of General Electric Co.; Sony Pictures, Sony Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Classics are units of Sony Corp.; DreamWorks, Paramount and Paramount Classics are divisions of Viacom Inc.; Disney's parent is The Walt Disney Co.; Miramax is a division of The Walt Disney Co.; 20th Century Fox, Fox Searchlight...
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Talking Biz News (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
... an intimate portrait of John Lasseter, the animation genius who now is Chief Creative Officer for Walt Disney Co. Other noteworthy stories include an inside look at the board of directors of Intel Corp. called “Andy Grove’s Latest Crusade”; an analytical examination of “Wal-Mart’s $288 Billion Meeting”; and “Inside the Shakeup at Sony,” the story of Howard Stringer’s sudden ascendancy to...
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Driive (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
GM won't buy advertising time for 2009 Oscars: report eMediaWorld.com Newswire Press Release Distribution Service (press release), AZ - 49 minutes ago The move, which comes amid a sharp downturn in automotive advertising on television, will leave Walt Disney Co.'s (DIS.N) ABC without one of its biggest ...
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Driive (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
WSJ says GM won't buy advertising time for 2009 Oscars Reuters UK, UK - 44 minutes ago The move, which comes amid a sharp downturn in automotive advertising on television, will leave Walt Disney Co.'s ABC without one of its biggest advertisers ...
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Driive (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
GM won't buy advertising time for 2009 Oscars: report Reuters - 28 minutes ago The move, which comes amid a sharp downturn in automotive advertising on television, will leave Walt Disney Co.'s ABC without one of its biggest advertisers ...
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
Tinker Bell is being recast by Walt Disney Co. in the hope of launching a new billion-dollar Fairies franchise aimed at young girls.
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MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
updated 11:38 a.m. ET Aug. 18, 2008NEW YORK - U.S. automaker General Motors Corp. has pulled out of its longtime sponsorship of the Academy Awards, one of the biggest annual events on broadcast television, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.The move, which comes amid a sharp downturn in automotive advertising on television, will leave Walt Disney Co.’s ABC without one of its biggest...
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Business Spectator (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
NEW YORK -- US vehicle maker General Motors Corp. has pulled out of its longtime sponsorship of the Academy Awards, one of the biggest annual events on broadcast television, the Wall Street Journal reports.The move, which comes amid a sharp downturn in automotive advertising on television, will leave Walt Disney Co.'s ABC without one of its biggest advertisers for Oscar night in February, the...
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Auto Channel (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
... move, which comes amid a sharp downturn in automotive advertising on television, will leave Walt Disney Co.'s ABC without one of its biggest advertisers for Oscar night in February, the paper said.The auto maker has long been one of the biggest spenders on the star-studded program, the paper said, adding that it paid out $13.5 million for advertising time on the broadcast this past February,...
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Deadline Hollywood Daily (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
EXCLUSIVE: Slowly but surely, a group of over age-40 TV writers alleging age discrimination by Hollywood networks, studios, production companies and talent agencies have been winning their lawsuits. Their latest victory took place last Thursday when the California Court Of Appeals issued a ruling on discovery in their favor. Believe me, the last thing Hollywood companies want to [...]
