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This article is about the current division overseeing Disney's television assets. For the defunct television production company of the same name, see Walt Disney Television (production company).

Walt Disney Television
Formerly
  • Capital Cities/ABC Inc. (1985–1996)
  • ABC Group (1996–2004)
  • Disney–ABC Television Group (2004–2019)
TypeSubsidiary
IndustryBroadcast and cable television
Mass Media
PredecessorAmerican Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres
FoundedMarch 18, 1985; 39 years ago (1985-03-18)
Headquarters
Burbank, California
,
United States
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
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  • Peter Rice (Chairman)
  • Dana Walden (Chairman, Disney TV Studios and ABC Entertainment)
  • Craig Hunegs (President, Disney Television Studios)
Number of employees
7,000+ (2016)
ParentDisney Media Networks
(The Walt Disney Company)
Divisions
Subsidiaries
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Footnotes / references
[1][2][3]

Walt Disney Television is a subsidiary of Disney Media Networks that oversees television assets owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company. It was formerly called Disney–ABC Television Group, until Disney's acquisition of 21st Century Fox assets on March 20, 2019. Assets in the group include the ABC network; cable networks: Freeform, Disney Channels, FX and National Geographic channels; Disney Television Studios: ABC Studios, 20th Century Fox Television and Fox 21 Television Studios; ABC News; and ABC Owned Television Stations. The division also manages Disney's 50% equity stake in A&E Networks. Along with ESPN, Walt Disney Television are the two primary divisions of Disney Media Networks.[1]

History[]

Capital Cities ABC, Inc

The ABC Television Group logo before merging with The Walt Disney Company.

In 1996, Disney acquired Capital Cities/ABC Inc., and re-branded the holding media conglomerate as Disney–ABC Television Group.[4] The assets acquired at the time included ABC Television Network Group, CC/ABC Broadcasting Group (ABC Radio Network, eight TV and 21 radio stations), ABC Cable and International Broadcast Group, CC/ABC Publishing Group and CC/ABC Multimedia Group to the fold. The Cable and International Broadcast Group contained ownership shares of ESPN, Inc. (80%), A&E Television Networks (37.5%), Lifetime Television (50%) and its international investments. These investments included Tele-München (50%, Germany; included 20% of RTL II), Hamster Productions. (33%, France) and Scandinavian Broadcasting System (23%, Luxembourg). ESPN also had international holdings: Eurosport (33.3%, England), TV Sport (10%, France; Eurosport affiliate) and The Japan Sports Channel (20%). The Publishing Group including Fairchild Publications, Chilton Publications, multiple newspapers from a dozen dailies (including the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram, The Kansas City Star) and more weeklies, and dozens more publications in the fields of farm, business and law trade journals plus LA Magazine to Institutional Investor. The Multimedia Group pursued businesses in new and emerging media technologies, including the interactive television, pay-per-view, VOD, HDTV, video cassette, Optical disc, on-line services and location-based entertainment.[5]

In 1993, DiC Animation City and Capital Cities/ABC formed a joint venture called DIC Entertainment L.P.[6] In April 1996, due to ongoing post Disney-CC/ABC merger realignment and retirement of its president, WDTT group's division were reassigned to other groups with Walt Disney Television International (including Disney Channel International and Buena Vista Television domestic syndication and Pay TV division and GMTV and Super RTL holdings) were transferred to Capital Cities/ABC.[7] In May due to the merger, ABC ended its ABC Productions division operations while keeping its boutique production companies: Victor Television, DIC Productions, ABC/Kane Productions and Greengrass Productions.[8] The international operations of Disney TV International and ABC Cable and International Broadcast Group were merged in June as Disney/ABC International Television.[9]

Under Disney, ABC Group sold various publishing companies in 1997. Chilton was sold to Reed Elsevier for $447 million and received $142 million from Euromoney Publications for Institutional Investor. In April, Knight Ridder purchased four newspapers including The Kansas City Star and The Fort Worth Star-Telegram for $1.65 billion. In August 1999, Fairchild Publications was sold to Conde Nast Publications for $650 million.[10] In March 1998, Disney-ABC placed it shares of Scandinavian Broadcasting System up for sale.[11]

In late 1999, Walt Disney Television, along with other television units, were transferred again from The Walt Disney Studios to Disney–ABC Television Group and merged with ABC's primetime division, ABC Entertainment, forming ABC Entertainment Group.[12][13][14]

In March 2000, ABC formed the Disney Kids Network (DKN) advertising group via consolidation to sell ads for ABC's "TGIF" primetime programming, Disney's One Saturday Morning, the Disney's One Too syndicated programming block, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, The Wonderful World of Disney and Winnie the Pooh primetime specials. DKN was placed under senior vice president of sales at ABC, Dan Barnathan, and would also work on some ads with Radio Disney, Disney.com and the Disney Adventures magazine. DKN added Toon Disney when the channel started accepting ads in September 2000.[15][16]

ABC Group chairman Robert A. Iger was named president and chief operating officer of The Walt Disney Company in January 2000.[17] In 2000, with an investment by Bain Capital and Chase Capital Partners, Heyward re-purchased DIC Enterprises.[18]

In September 2002, Disney Chairman/CEO Michael Eisner outlined a proposed realignment of the ABC broadcast network's daytime parts with the similar unit in its cable channels: ABC Saturday mornings with Disney Channel units (Toon & Playhouse), ABC daytime with Soapnet and ABC prime time with ABC Family.[19] In October 2003, ABC Family Worldwide was changed from a unit directly reporting to the Disney COO to a unit running within the ABC Cable Networks Group under Anne Sweeney.[20]

Disney–ABC Television Group[]

Disney - abc TV group logo

Former logo of Disney–ABC Television Group, used from 2013 to 2019.

On April 21, 2004, Disney announced a restructuring of its Disney Media Networks division with Sweeney being named president of ABC parent Disney–ABC, and ESPN president George Bodenheimer becoming co-CEO of the division with Sweeney, as well as president of ABC Sports. This move added ABC TV Network within Disney-ABC.[21] ABC1 channel initially launched in the United Kingdom on September 27, 2004 as the first use of the ABC brand outside the US.[22] While ABC News Now was launched that year in the US on digital subchannel of 70 ABC owned & operated and affiliates.[23]

On June 12, 2007, Disney spun off its ABC Radio Networks and merged it into Citadel Communications with Citadel Broadcasting while retaining its ESPN Radio and Radio Disney networks and stations and a 10-year news provider licensing agreement with Citadel for ABC News Radio and the networks.[24][25]

In February 2007, Touchstone Television was renamed ABC Television Studio as part of Disney's push to drop secondary brands like Buena Vista for Disney, ABC, ESPN, and most recently, A&E Networks.[26] ABC1 in the UK was shut down on September 26, 2007.[27]

On January 22, 2009, Disney–ABC said it would merge ABC Entertainment and ABC Studios into a new unit called ABC Entertainment Group.[28][29] That April, ABC Enterprises took an ownership stake in Hulu in exchange for online distribution license and $25 million in the ABC network ad credits.[30] The Live Well Network (LWN) was launched on April 27, 2009 by ABC Owned Television Stations on the stations' subchannels.[31][32][33] Later that year, A+E Networks acquired Lifetime Entertainment Services with DATG ownership increasing to 42%.[34] In November, Disney-ABC sells GMTV to ITV for $37 million.[35]

On March 24, 2012, following the dissolution of the ABC Daytime division, ABC Family Worldwide Inc. began taking operational control of Soapnet until that network was slowly discontinued for Disney Junior.[36][37]

In July 2012, NBCUniversal confirmed plans to sell its 15.8% stake in A+E Networks to Disney for $3 billion (along with its previous owner Hearst Entertainment & Syndication, who became 50-50 partners in the joint venture).[38][39]

On August 21, 2013, Disney–ABC announced it will lay off 175 employees. The layoffs are expected to hit positions among technical operations as well as the unit's eight local stations.[40] On October 28, ABC News and Univision Communications launched Fusion, a cable Hispanic news and satire channel.[41]

In August 2014, A+E took a 10% stake in Vice Media for $250 million, then announced in April 2015 that H2 would be rebranded into the Vice channel with an indicated early 2016 launch.[42] Disney also directly made two $200 investments in Vice Media in November 2015, then a week later in December, they directly invested in it again for 10% to assist in funding its programming.[43] ABC Family became Freeform on January 12, 2016.[44]

On April 21, 2016, Disney–ABC sold its share in Fusion to Univision.[45] In September 2016, the group's president Ben Sherwood named Bruce Rosenblum, Television Academy chairman and former head of Warner Bros. TV Group, as president of business operations in s the newly created position, to reduce the number of direct reports from 17 to about 8. Roseblum would oversee ad sales in conjunction with channel heads, affiliate sales and marketing, engineering, digital media, global distribution, IT, research and strategy and business development. This allows Sherwood to focus on content and direct operating units that continue to directly report to him, ABC network units, cable channel units (Disney Channels Worldwide, and Freeform), ABC Studios and ABC TV Stations.[46]

With the March 14, 2018, Disney Company reorganization, in anticipation of integrating Fox assets from a proposed acquisition, all international channels including Disney Channels have been transferred to Walt Disney Direct-to-Consumer and International, a new segment, with US channels remaining with Disney–ABC Television Group. All global sales units and distribution units have been transfer to the Disney Direct-to-Consumer segment.[47]

Walt Disney Television[]

Main article: Acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney

On October 8, 2018, Disney announced the division would be renamed Walt Disney Television following the completion of its acquisition of 21st Century Fox assets. The acquisition added 20th Century Fox Television, FX Networks and FX Productions, Fox 21 Television Studios, and National Geographic Partners to the division. Fox television executives Peter Rice, Dana Walden, John Landgraf, and Gary E. Knell joined The Walt Disney Company on March 20, 2019.[48]

On March 5, 2019, Disney announced that Craig Hunegs would lead the combined Disney Television Studios — ABC Studios, ABC Signature, 20th Century Fox Television and Fox 21 Television Studios. He would report to Walden.[2]

Units[]

Current Structure[]

This is the current structure of the Walt Disney Television units based on reporting hierarchy:[48]

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  • FX Networks
    • FX
    • FXX
    • FXM
    • FX Entertainment
      • FX Productions
  • National Geographic Partners (73%; joint venture with National Geographic Society)
    • National Geographic TV
    • Nat Geo Wild
    • Nat Geo People
    • Nat Geo Mundo
    • Nat Geo Kids

Former Units[]

Re-organizational transfers 2018
Transferred to Walt Disney Direct-to-Consumer and International in 2018[47]

  • Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment – also known as Disney–ABC Home Entertainment and Television Distribution
  • Disney Media Distribution – formerly Disney–ABC International Television and before that, ABC Cable and International Broadcast Group
  • Disney Channels Worldwide - international channels only
    • Broadcast Satellite Disney Co., Ltd. (April 2009 – 2018) – operator of Dlife channel (Japan)[49]
    • Hungama (2006–2018)
  • Hulu (60%; 2009–2018)
  • Buena Vista International Television Investments
    • RTL Disney Television Limited Partnership, 50%[50] (–2018)
    • Tele Munich Television Media Participation Limited Partnership, 50%[50]
      • RTL 2 Television Limited Partnership, 31.5% (–2018)
  • GMTV (1993–2009) UK, 25%
  • Super RTL (1995) Germany
    • Kividoo subscription video-on-demand (2015)
    • Toggo Plus (2016)

The Rest

  • ABC Radio Networks (1945–2007) sold to Cumulus Media
    • American Contemporary Network (January 1, 1968)
    • American Information Network (January 1, 1968)
    • American Entertainment Network (January 1, 1968)
    • American FM Network (January 1, 1968)
    • ABC Rock Radio Network (January 4, 1982)
    • ABC Direction Radio Network (January 4, 1982)
    • ABC Talk Radio (1980s)
    • Urban Advantage Network (UAN)
  • Radio Disney Group (2003–2014) sold individual stations except one.
  • Walt Disney Television (1999-2003)
  • Disney MovieToons/Disney Video Premieres (1996-2003) came as a part of Disney TV Animation transfer out to Walt Disney Feature Animation.
  • Jetix - merged into Disney Channels Worldwide.
  • ABC News Now (2004-2009) digital subchannel network.

Walt Disney Television and Telecommunications[]

Unit[5][7] Transferred to[7]
KCAL-TV Los Angeles Sold to Young[51]
Walt Disney Television Disney Studios
Disney Television Animation
Touchstone Television
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Walt Disney Television International CC/ABC
Disney Channel International
Buena Vista Television
GMTV
Super RTL
Disney Interactive
Disney TeleVentures, Inc. Disney corporate

Walt Disney Television and Telecommunications (WDTT) was a division of The Walt Disney Company. At the time Disney and Capital Cities/ABC merged, WDTT's divisions were The Disney Channel, KCAL-TV Los Angeles, Walt Disney Television, Touchstone Television, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, and Disney Interactive.[5]

WDTT history[]

On August 24, 1994, with Jeffrey Katzenberg's resignation, a reorganization of Disney took place in which Richard H. Frank became head of newly formed Walt Disney Television and Telecommunications, which was split from its filmed entertainment business, Walt Disney Studios.[52] On December 5, 1994, Walt Disney Computer Software was transferred within WDTT as Disney Interactive.[53] At the end of his contract on April 30, 1995, Frank left Disney.[54] Dennis Hightower, a marketing executive, was appointed by April 9 to succeed Frank.[55]

In April 1996, due to ongoing post-Disney-CC/ABC merger realignment and the retirement of Hightower as president, WDTT's divisions were reassigned to other groups, with most of them transferred to either The Walt Disney Studios or CC/ABC.[7] KCAL was sold to Young Broadcasting in May 1996 due to CC/ABC ownership of KABC-TV.[51]

See also[]

  • Fox Networks Group

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Entertainment 		Distribution • Walt Disney Pictures • Disneynature • Walt Disney Animation Studios • Pixar • Marvel Studios • Lucasfilm • 20th Century Fox • Fox 2000 Pictures • Fox Searchlight Pictures • 20th Century Fox Animation (Blue Sky Studios) • Disney Music Group • Disney Theatrical Group
Media
Networks 		Walt Disney TV (ABC • Disney TV Studios (ABC Studios • 20th Century Fox TV • Fox 21 TV Studios • Fox TV Animation) • ABC TV Stations • Disney Channels (US) (Disney TV Animation • It's a Laugh Productions) • Freeform • FX Networks) • FX Productions • Hulu Scripted Originals Team • National Geographic Networks (73%)) • ESPN (80%) • A&E Networks (50%)
Parks,
Experiences
& Products
(FoxNext) 		Parks & resorts Disneyland Resort • Disneyland Paris • Hong Kong Disneyland Resort (43%) • Shanghai Disney Resort (43%) • Disney Attractions Japan Disney World • Imagineering
Signature Experiences Adventures by Disney • Disney Cruise Line • Disney Vacation Club
Consumer Products
& Interactive Media 		Licensing • Disney Store • Disney Publishing (Disney English) • Disney Online • Games & Interactive Experiences • Muppets Studio
Direct-to-
Consumer &
International 		Disney Channels Worldwide • Fox Networks Group • ESPN International • Disney–ABC Domestic Television • Disney Media Distribution • Endemol Shine Group (50%) • Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment • Disney Digital Network • Disney Streaming Services (BAMTech (75%) • Disney+ • ESPN+) • Hulu (67%)
International Asia Pacific (India (Star India) • Hotstar • Tata Sky (30%) • UTV Software Communications) • Germany (Super RTLJV • RTL IIJV) • Italy • Latin America (Argentina (Patagonik Film Group) • Rede Telecine
Other assets Buena Vista • D23 • DisneyNow • Disney Institute • Disney University • Marvel Entertainment • Reedy Creek Energy • TrueX
Related Company timeline • Criticism • Retlaw Enterprises • 21st Century Fox (acquired)

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