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by Baindu N. Saidu<\/pre>\n
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The \u00a0American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is one of the oldest American broadcasting networks.\u00a0Originally created in the 1940’s from the NBC Blue rradio network, ABC is \u00a0now owned by\u00a0The Walt Disney Company\u00a0and is part of\u00a0Disney-ABC Television Group[1]. The group is composed of Disney’s global entertainment and news television properties, owned television stations group, as well as radio and publishing businesses. This includes ABC Television Network, ABC Owned Television Station Group, ABC Studios, Disney Channels Worldwide, ABC Family, and SOAPnet, as well as Disney\/abc Domestic Television and Disney Media Distribution[2].<\/p>\n
The parent company, The Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS), together with its subsidiaries, is a diversified worldwide entertainment company with operations in media Networks, Parks and Resorts, Studio Entertainment, Consumer Products, and Interactive Media.<\/p>\n
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Key Disney Executives:<\/h2>\n
John Pepper – Chairman<\/p>\n
Robert Iger – President, CEO<\/p>\n
James Rasulo – Senior Executive Vice President, CFO<\/p>\n
Alan Braverman –\u00a0Senior Executive Vice President, Secretary, General Counsel<\/p>\n
Kevin Mayer – Executive Vice President<\/p>\n
Key Disney Financials (in USD as of 09\/29\/2012):<\/h2>\n
Revenue:42, 278m<\/p>\n
Net income:5,682m<\/p>\n
Revenue per share: 23.57 [4]<\/p>\n
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Graph from Bloomberg.com (http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/DIS:US\/chart)<\/p><\/div>\n
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Walt Disney Co. News (Fall 2012)<\/h2>\n
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  • October 30, 2012:\u00a0Disney Buys Lucasfilm for $4 Billion in cash and stock and will debut a new Star Wars<\/em> movie, Episode VII,<\/em>in 2015.\u00a0George Lucas, the creator of the Star Wars franchise and CEO of Lucasfilm, owned 100% of the company[5]. Kathleen Kennedy, current co-chair of Lucasfilm, will become its president, reporting to Walt Disney Studios chair Alan Horn.\u00a0Kennedy will serve as executive producer on new Star Wars<\/em> features, with Lucas serving as creative consultant [6].<\/li>\n
  • November 28, 2012:\u00a0Walt Disney said \u00a0that it would boost its annual dividend to shareholders by 25% to 75\u00a2 a share. It was the latest company to do so on jitters over the looming “fiscal cliff.”\u00a0The dividend announcement came a day after Disney raised $3 billion in a bond offering, part of which would likely go toward funding the bigger shareholder payout [7].<\/li>\n
  • December 4, 2012: Disney signed an unprecedented movie deal with Netflix, allowing \u00a0Netflix subscribers to stream films from Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar Animation, Marvel and Disneynature, starting in 2016. When the deal kicks in, Netflix will become the exclusive U.S. subscription television service for first-run, live-action and animated feature films from the Walt Disney Studios, \u00a0receiving access to the movies after they’re made available for sale and rental. Netflix managers also cut a separate multi-year deal with Disney to bring some older catalog titles to Netflix streaming immediately[8].<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
    ABC Network<\/h1>\n
    ABC Television network provides broadcast programming to more than 220 affiliated stations across the country. the network encompasses ABC News, respoinsible for news programming on television and other digital platforms, ABC Entertainement Group, responsible for the network’s primetime and late-night fair, ABC Daytime,producers of the network’s daytime programming, and ABC Kids, responsible for children’s programming [9].<\/p>\n
    ABC Daytime<\/strong><\/p>\n
    -September 10, 2012: Katie Couric’s new daytime talk show premiered to\u00a0\u00a0an estimated 1.535-million viewers from the top 56 U.S. markets. put Couric comfortably ahead of the freshman talk-show pack. \u201cKatie\u201d outdrew \u201cSteve Harvey\u201d by 87%,\u00a0 \u201cJeff Probst\u201d by 150% and \u201cRicki Lake\u201d by 250%[10]. For entire article.<\/p>\n
    -November 26, 2012: As sweeps month comes to a close, Good Morning America<\/em> is poised to beat out Today<\/em> to \u00a0win November sweeps\u00a0in total viewers and the key adults 25-54 demo, according to Nielsen. It would be GMA<\/em>‘s first November sweep win in total viewers since 1995, and its first sweeps victory in the key demo in more than 18 years.\u00a0 [11]. For entire article.<\/p>\n
    -December 06, 2012:\u00a0ABC was Daytime’s number 1 network for the 12th consecutive week in Women 18-34 (0.6 rating \/ 214,000 – tied), and was #1 for the 8th straight week in Women 18-49 (0.9 rating \/ 569,000 – tied) [12]. For entire press release.<\/p>\n
    Primetime Programming<\/h2>\n
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    ABC Entertainment Group develops and produces compelling programming for broadcast on ABC in addition to other television and digital platforms.\u00a0 The group includes ABC Entertainment, which is responsible for all network primetime and late-night entertainment programming.\u00a0 ABC Studios is responsible for the development and production of primetime and late-night entertainment content for ABC, among other platforms.\u00a0Disney-ABC Domestic Television is responsible for the content distribution within the United States and Canada [13].<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
    New Programs Fall 2012<\/strong><\/div>\n