Verizon Launches New Fast-Forward-Disabled Content From ABC in FiOS TV's Industry-Leading VOD Library NEW YORK and BURBANK, Calif., Oct. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Disney-ABC Television Group and Verizon are making ABC's video-on-demand VOD offering available to Verizon FiOS TV customers across the country. Customers can watch episodes of...
WILMINGTON, N.C., Oct. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- The Disney and ABC Family channels are conducting a nationwide search for new, young talent to act in upcoming shows. The Producers are looking for talented, teen-aged comedic actors and actresses to audition for upcoming original movies and television series. The...
30-Minute Preview of Nationally Syndicated Action-Adventure Epic Available as a Free Download Exclusively on the iTunes Store BURBANK, Calif., Oct. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Action-adventure fans can enjoy a first look of the highly-anticipated epic fantasy series "Legend of the Seeker" before its November 1st premiere weekend. Beginning today,...
Top Leaders from Television, Gaming and Semiconductor Industries Join 2009 CES Program ARLINGTON, Va. -- The Consumer Electronics Association CEA([R]) today announced that Anne Sweeney, co-chair, Disney Media Networks and president, Disney-ABC Television Group; Mike Griffith, president and CEO, Activision Publishing and Dirk Meyer, president and CEO of AMD...
Research shows many Hispanic Families are Still Unclear About How to Live Healthfully NEW YORK, Oct. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- The Advertising Council in partnership with the United States Department of Agriculture's Food Nutrition and Consumer Services recently launched new Spanish-language public service advertisements PSAs designed to motivate Hispanic...
Aberdeen, a Harte Hanks Company (NYSE: HHS), today announced that Jeffrey Fons, General Manager of Service Operations at GE Healthcare, and Doug Lipp, Former Head of Customer Service and Training at Disney, will keynote the third annual Chief Service Officer's CSO Summit to be held next week in San Francisco....
HONG KONG AFP — Hong Kong Disneyland's new managing director said Wednesday the troubled theme park needed to build more attractions in order to thrive, but a government funding dispute had not yet been resolved. Andrew Kam said Disney were hoping to resolve the dispute with the Hong Kong...
European intellectuals who make a living attacking American cultural invaders, from McDonald’s to Disney and the NBA, now have a new target. Zuffa International of Las Vegas has picked the Continent as a key growth market for it’s Ultimate Fighting Championship. The UFC and its sibling Extreme Cage Fighting feature...
In a landscape fertile in technology lies a place where the future has become outdated. The location is nestled within a make-believe world, in a magical kingdom where a mouse rules and real engineers roam. It's a place where imagination has no boundaries for those who visit or for those...
BERLIN AFP — The US media and leisure group Disney wants to boost its European presence by launching new television channels to beam Mickey Mouse and friends into millions of homes, a press report said on Thursday. "We see very large growth potential" in Europe, Disney's head of European...
URAYASU, Japan AFP — Tokyo Disney Resort on Wednesday offered girls the chance to become the princess of their choice as it unveiled a new 415-million-dollar hotel. Tokyo Disneyland Hotel, to open on July 8, houses the "Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique" which can turn girls aged three to nine into...
Saturday on TV U.S. Olympic trials: Diving (1:30 p.m., Ch. 5); men's gymnastics (2:30 p.m., Ch. 5); women's gymnastics (7 p.m., Ch. 5 -- taped) Camp Rock (7 p.m., Ch. 4): The Disney Channel movie airs on ABC as part of the Wonderful World of Disney...
*We know Regis Philbin will pick up a prize: He's getting the lifetime achievement award. Otherwise, everything is up for grabs at the Daytime Emmy Awards (ABC, tonight, 8 ET/PT), the more laid-back little sister of the prime-time Emmys. Cameron Mathison and Sherri Shepherd (who is nominated against Philbin in...
If you've got preteen girls in your house, you probably already know about "Camp Rock" (9 p.m., Disney), which stars gasp the Jonas Brothers! The Jonases (Jonasi?) play you guessed it members of a band who are visiting a camp for aspiring stars. Joe Jonas stars as Shane,...
Disney's High School Musical 2 Soundtrack is Ranked the No. 1 Best Selling Album of 2007 by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry IFPI BURBANK, Calif. -- The High School Musical audio franchise from Walt Disney Records is the No. 1 best-selling album globally for the second consecutive...
Steven Judd, a Norman native, is one of 14 new fellows selected for the 18th annual Disney-ABC Television Writing Fellowship Program. Judd attended Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kan., but returned to Norman to attend the University of Oklahoma, where he majored in communications and minored in...
MAIHAMA, Japan AFP — Cirque du Soleil, the Canadian-based circus and entertainment troupe, on Tuesday unveiled part of a tarot-inspired permanent show at Tokyo Disney Resort as it tries to expand in Asia. Cirque, which has found global success with its blend of traditional circus, theatre, music and special...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida AFP — The US space shuttle Discovery is set to blast into outer space carrying spare toilet parts, a tiny Disney doll and a huge Japanese experimental laboratory, NASA said on Friday. Shuttle experts looked forward to fair weather as they began final preparations for Saturday's...
LOS ANGELES -- Thousands of sleeping bags and magic wands contaminated by excessive levels of lead paint are being recalled by The Walt Disney Co., federal inspectors said Thursday. The recall targets 4,100 Pirates of the Caribbean sleeping bags and 8,000 Tinker Bell wands sold at Disney Stores...
The tourism boom of the past couple of years might wane this summer as consumers scale back spending in the face of rising living costs, shrinking jobs and an uncertain economy. Fifty-seven percent of Americans have taken at least one trip away from home in the past year-down from 63%...
