Beginning on January 2nd, 1938 Disney and RKO broadcast the “Mickey Mouse Theater of the Air” a radio-variety show on NBC. It featured many regular Disney characters including Walt Disney doing the voice of Mickey Mouse for the first four episodes. The final show was… Read More »Today on Mickey Mouse Theater of the Air 1938
The original Frankenweenie short from Tim Burton was filmed just down the street from where I used to live in Burbank. It’s a special feature on the latest DVD/Blu-Ray of “Nightmare Before Christmas“, but if you haven’t bought that yet, then Disney.com’s Halloween promotion has… Read More »Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie
Jeremy Herron, AP Business Writer, reports on the annual retreat in Sun Valley, Idaho, hosted by investment bank Allen & Co. This is where media and tech execs mingle and make deals. Even the top Internet companies — save maybe Google Inc. — are seeing… Read More »Nothing is Safe When the Moguls Meet in Sun Valley
Meg James and Matea Gold of the Los Angeles Times report that NBC will make the announcement today. The media company, which made the town of tract houses the butt of endless jokes, but also brought it prominence as the base of "The Tonight Show," is decamping to nearby Universal Studios. The media company plans… Read More »Disney’s Burbank Neighbor Going to Universal City
Mike Shields at Media Week reports that NBC has entered a deal with Vmix Media, Vmix.com, which is compared to YouTube. Just as Viacom escalates its conflict with YouTube by saddling the Google-owned video site with a billion-dollar lawsuit, NBC has inked a partnership with VMIX Media, a broadband technology company that also operates the… Read More »The Rush to Online Video Partnerships
Yay! MSNBC is reporting that Fats Domino has been found safe and alive. He was evacuated via Helicopter yesterday or today. Another small glimmer of good news. Please send your aid today. [ttags: hurricane, katrina, fatsdomino, refugee, evacuee, flood+aid, relief, evacation, missing, found ]
The AP is reporting that Fats Domino is missing after not evacuating ahead of Hurricane Katrina. Not that this has a huge impact on the effects of the devastation, but it’s still very sad if it is true. Update: Fats Domino has been found alive. [Technorati Tags: hurricane, katrina, hurricanekatrina, lost, fatsdomino, refugee, evacuee, flood]
NBC is reporting that the Walt Disney Company is donating $2.5 million to Hurricane Katrina Relief efforts.