DraftKings, a sports fantasy website that provides fans a chance to win money with their fantasy teams, has just received a $250 million investment from the Walt Disney Company. In return, DraftKings has reportedly agreed to drop $500 million in advertising on ESPN, which is… Read More »Sports Fantasy website DraftKings gets $250 Million investment from Disney
My friend’s son is famous. Yesterday, during the stockholder meeting for The Walt Disney Company, her six year old son told her he wanted to asks a question. He waited in queue and when he got to the front he asked a simple direct question,… Read More »Disney’s Hollywood Studios to be receive new name, eventually.
You may have heard people complaining about how since Bob Iger started his buying spree, that The Walt Disney Company now owns pretty much everything. Here’s a smart parody video by YouTuber’s Minhdzuy Khorami & Greg Smith with their take on exactly how bad it… Read More »Videopolis: Disney Owns Everything
Today in 1995 Michael Eisner announced the acquisition of Capital Cities/ABC. With the purchase, the TV station that made Disneyland possible joined the Disney family. So did ESPN, A&E, Lifetime, and a long list of local stations and other media interests. The deal also came… Read More »Today in Disney History: Capital Cities/ABC acquisition announced by Michael Eisner
It’s an honor that has include such great corporate leaders as Bill Gates, Jack Welch, and Michael Dell in the past. Now Disney’s CEO Bog Iger can add his name to the list of CEO’s of the Year as awarded by Chief Executive magazine. Among… Read More »Disney’s Bob Iger named 2014 CEO of the Year
She was my pick to replace Bob Iger as CEO of the Walt Disney Company, but Anne Sweeney has decided to step down as President of Disney/ABC Television Group (the same group that gave us Bob Iger) and work on the creative side as a… Read More »Anne Sweeney stepping down as Disney/ABC TV President
While it may not seem like such a surprise to us loyal fans, The Walt Disney Company was chosen as the best overall company in 2013 by the writers and editors at Yahoo Finance. Their study was based on factors such as financial performance, stockholder… Read More »Yahoo Finance Names Disney the Best Company of 2013
Fifteen years ago Congress passed a 20 year extension of copyright in the USA. The Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act was also known as the Mickey Mouse Copyright Extension as The Walt Disney Company’s desire to keep Mickey Mouse protected by copyright was a significant… Read More »Will Disney’s Copyright on Mickey Mouse Ever Expire?