A Seattle area family is the most recent recipient of Disney’s Largess. Burned by a fire that leveled their house, then burned by their insurance agent, the Dore familly have been living in a storage shed without electricity or plumbing. Then the neighbors nominated the family to the ABC television show. A Walt Disney World… Read More »Extreme Makeover: House Edition Strikes again
The NFL has arrived at a giant of a deal for the next 5 years of TV rights for NFL football. This deal is bigger than the MLB, NBA, and NASCAR combined. One little problem, ABC and ESPN have yet to deal with the NFL. The Sunday night and Monday night deal has been sweetened… Read More »NFL Broadcast Deal, Where’s ABC/ESPN?
A few years ago Disney bought the Fox Family Network and turned it into ABC Family Channel. Along with that purchase came the rights to some of the existing shows on that network. Among them Spiderman, X-men, and others. Or so Disney thought. They are now being sued for non-payment of royalties to Marvel. Be… Read More »Disney to lose more copyrights?
Don’t read this story if you want to be suprised by the upcoming edition of ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. But if you like happy sappy stories then read on. This is a good one. Disney’s making the world a better place here. Sure it’s only one household at a time. But you have to… Read More »Another Home Makeover
I watched Boston Legal on ABC last night and I must say that it was some of the funniest TV I’ve seen in a while. James Spader and Bill ‘WFS‘ Shatner are playing two of the best TV lawyers I’ve seen since Ally McBeal. I was never a big fan of ‘The Practice’, but this… Read More »Boston Legal, the funniest show on TV
BusinessWeek has a story on the new fall season for ABC and how two new programs might show signs of a turn around for the struggling network. Me personally, I gave up watching Alias last season, but started watching Extreme Makeover: House Edition. I have the first two episodes of Lost on tape, but have… Read More »ABC Lost? or Found?
The economics of sports on Television can be very confusing. This LA Times article attempts to clear up some of the confusion surrounding Disney’s ABC Network and their struggle to be profitable with Monday Night Football. The 34-year-old sports classic is ABC’s most popular and longest-running prime-time program — a tradition that began in 1970… Read More »The ABCs of Football for Disney
Speaking of Micro-Charities, I hope you all are watching the best feel good TV show of the year — Disney’s Extreme Home Makever. The selection process ensures that the money and donations is going to a family that is truely in need. And the result is always a tearful happy joyful ending and a new… Read More »Speaking of Micro Charities