Walt Disney is likely to gain more traction on Madison Avenue. With an acquisition of a good chunk of 21st Century Fox, Disney takes control over many things it does not currently have. Its …
Comcast chairman Brian Roberts turned heads in 2004, when his cable company launched an unsolicited $54 billion bid for the Walt Disney Co. Today, Roberts no doubt had mixed feelings wat…
Disney’s $52.4 billion stock deal to acquire a good chunk of 21st Century Fox will give the backer of Disneyland new heft around the globe, including places like Europe and India. But …
It’s not a small world, after all. The Walt Disney Company, stocked to the gills with ESPN, the ABC television network, the Pixar studio, and the Marvel superhero franchise, was alread…
The Walt Disney Co. has set a $52.4 billion, all-stock deal to acquire 20th Century Fox and other entertainment and sports assets from Rupert Murdoch’s empire. The deal between Disney …
Shares of 21st Century Fox rose moderately in early trading Tuesday after CNBC added new fuel to speculation that the Murdoch-controlled company would sell a significant chunk of its assets …
Walt Disney and 21st Century Fox have re-started more serious discussions that could result in the owner of ABC and ESPN picking up pieces of the empire controlled by the Murdoch family, acc…
Fox Broadcasting, which enjoyed one of its most successful periods when it aired “American Idol,” said it would make a new foray into the music-competition genre by launchingR…
Walt Disney Company and Altice said they had come to new terms on a carriage deal that will keep ESPN, ABC and Disney Channel, among other networks available to thousands of households in th…
Walt Disney CEO Bob Iger spoke out forcefully about the recent mass shooting in Las Vegas, calling the violence a “human tragedy of huge proportion” and noting the incident is in…
Disney and the cable company once known as Cablevision are at it again. The two companies, whose fractious carriage negotiations in 2010 resulted in viewers in New York and Connecticut missi…
Actor and vlogger Jake Paul had a good thing going: a burgeoning audience for his antics on social media and a group of die-hard fans who enjoyed his presence on the kooky Disney Channel pro…
Huey, Dewey and Louie have always had things pretty good. They are, after all, Disney characters. But they've never had it quite like this. When "Duck Tales," the long running syndicated adv…
MSNBC and Fox News Channel shook up their primetime schedules in the wake of a tragic explosion outside Manchester Arena during an Ariana Grande concert in the United Kingdom Monday that is …
Broadway Video is best known for its many famous productions: “Saturday Night Live,” “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” “Late Night With Seth Meyers̶…
NPR has a new “Morning Edition” at the ready. Starting Wednesday, April 5th, the public broadcaster will release “Up First,” a ten-minute daily news podcast culled…
After inserting itself into the plot of one of TV’s most-watched dramas in 2015, Pepsi hopes to rule Fox’s “Empire” anew. The popular beverage maker raised eyebrows w…
TV's annual upfront sales season isn't child's play to the executives who run Nickelodeon. The kids-focused media unit, the largest division of parent Viacom, moves into the TV industry's ad…
Disney is hoping to find new reason for Sofia the First and K.C. Cooper to smile: The company anticipates healthy demand for advertising as the TV industry ushers in the earliest part of the…
Disney said it would revamp the way it sells ABC, Freeform and its Disney entertainment cable networks to advertisers, in the hopes of getting more sponsors to purchase ad time across many o…
Hollywood is getting ready to tackle the Super Bowl as hard as longstanding sponsors like PepsiCo and Anheuser-Busch InBev. Disney’s studios, NBCUniversal’s Universal and V…
Disney is considering a revamp of how it sells some of its most popular outlets to Madison Avenue. Under one plan being discussed, the company would place a single executive in charge of adv…
Fans of Doc McStuffins, the extremely popular animated African-American girl who fixes broken toys on the Disney Junior cable network, can breathe a sigh of relief. Her series has been renew…
New York Public Radio, the backer of two New York public-radio stations as well as podcasts featuring hosts such as Alec Baldwin and Jessica Williams, said it added drummer and “Tonigh…
Disney wants to try to keep “Frozen” at full boil. The company said it would launch a new adventure featuring Anna, Elsa, Olaf, Kristoff and the rest of the characters from its h…