Topic: Anne Sweeney

Katie Couric has signed a multi-year deal with ABC television to host and produce her own syndicated daytime talk show starting in Sept. 2012, ABC...

ABC Execs Jump On Digital Bandwagon

From the presentations ABC, NBC and Fox executives have made to advertisers so far this week, you'd think they were more concerned about...
Less than a week after the cancellations of ABC's daytime dramas All My Children and One Life To Live emotions are still raw, with the frustration...

Anne Sweeney Wants Ryan Seacrest Inc.

Broadcasting & Cable today published a long interview with Disney/ABC TV Chief Anne Sweeney (subscription required), and here is what's...

Disney's Anne Sweeney tops Hollywood power list

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Disney/ABC Television Group President Anne Sweeney earned the top spot on The Hollywood Reporter's list of the 100 most powerful women in entertainment, for the second year in a row.In 2009, Sweeney shared the honor ...
If you wanted an antidote to the gloom and doom that is pervading Ireland and its economic woes in recent weeks the Irish America Magazine Business...

Media companies look beyond today's App stores

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Apple Inc's creation of a mobile application store two years ago set off a frenzy of software development -- in short order consumers could download apps for everything from high finance to burping sounds.Today, the top application stores ...

Disney reviewing options on Oprah replacement

NEW YORK (Reuters) - ABC television can wait 12 to 15 months before it decides how to fill the gap left by daytime TV queen Oprah Winfrey, who plans to end her talk show in 2011, said Disney/ABC Television Group president Anne ...

Disney in no hurry on Oprah decision

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Walt Disney Co can wait 12 to 15 months before it decides how to fill the gap left by reigning daytime TV queen Oprah Winfrey, who plans to end her talk show in 2011, said Disney/ABC Television Group ...
Disney/ABC TV Group cuts 400 positions, roughly 6 percent of work forceThe Walt Disney Co.'s television division is cutting 400 jobs, or about 6 percent of the unit's work force, due to the slumping economy.The cuts include 200 ...