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65-566: Disney Regional Entertainment was formed in 1996 to develop local based entertainment concepts. Soon after the purchase of Capital Cities/ABC Inc. , which owns 80% of ESPN, Disney CEO Michael D. Eisner moved forward with his idea to having local entertainment based on Disney brands in metropolitan and suburban area. Eisner selected Art Levitt , who was previously Disney Parks and Resorts vice president of resorts and special projects then CEO of Hard Rock Cafe International. As Disney Parks and Resorts vice president of resorts and special projects, Levitt

130-475: A 10-year news provider licensing agreement with Citadel for ABC News Radio and the networks. In February 2007, the previous iteration of Touchstone Television was renamed ABC Television Studio as part of Disney's push to drop secondary brands like Buena Vista for Disney, ABC, ESPN, and most recently, A&E Networks . ABC1 in the UK was shut down on September 26, 2007 . On January 22, 2009, Disney–ABC announced

195-524: A dozen dailies (including the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram , The Kansas City Star ) and more weeklies, and dozens more publications in the fields of farm, business and law trade journals plus LA Magazine to Institutional Investor . ABC Group pursued businesses in new and emerging media technologies, including the interactive television , pay-per-view , VOD , HDTV , video cassette , Optical disc , on-line services and location-based entertainment. In April 1996, due to

260-427: A financial stake. According to Lifetime executives, the network stood to lose up to one million subscribers due to TCI's move. However, Lifetime published advertisements in some of the markets that would be affected – including Eugene, Oregon and Newport, Rhode Island – informing customers that TCI was removing the only network that was made for women. After TCI customers called the company to complain, TCI cut back

325-451: A format based on The Newlywed Game ; it was canceled after one season. The network has also previously produced scripted dramas, such as Devious Maids and Witches of East End . The network currently airs a mix of second-run syndicated series (such as How I Met Your Mother and Grey's Anatomy ) during the daytime hours. In the past, Lifetime has revived several programs that originally aired on other networks. In 1988, it bought

390-567: A location-based entertainment venue, at Downtown Disney West Side in Walt Disney World. The company opened its first ESPN Zone on July 11, 1998 at Power Plant in the Inner Harbor, Baltimore. On August 28, 1998, Disney Regional announced an expansion for Club Disney for late 1998 and 1999. In December 1998, Disney Regional Entertainment was transferred with a couple of other units into Walt Disney Attractions . The first DisneyQuest outside of

455-399: A long way toward shedding its low-rent image." Douglas McCormick became the network's president in 1993. He moved to make Lifetime a seven-day-a-week network by ending Lifetime Medical Television after nearly a decade of existence, and the next year, the channel relaunched with a new tagline, "Television for Women". Lifetime began airing a limited amount of women's sports coverage, including

520-663: A merger of ABC Entertainment and ABC Studios into ABC Entertainment Group. That April, ABC Enterprises took an ownership stake in Hulu in exchange for online distribution license and $ 25 million in the ABC network ad credits. The Live Well Network (LWN) was launched on April 27, 2009, by ABC Owned Television Stations on the stations' subchannels. Later that year, A+E Networks acquired Lifetime Entertainment Services with DATG ownership increasing to 42%. In November, Disney-ABC sells GMTV to ITV for $ 37 million. On March 24, 2012, following

585-649: A nightly lineup of talk shows and call-in programs hosted by people including Regis Philbin and Ruth Westheimer (known as "Dr. Ruth"). In the process, the creators dropped the apple from the logo. During the 1980s and early 1990s, Lifetime devoted itself on Sundays to the airing of in-depth medical programs—and advertising—for physicians under the banner of Lifetime Medical Television (LMT). As early as 1990, however, plans were floated to move LMT to another channel, with TLC and CNBC being considered. Lifetime began programming Sundays on August 1, 1993. In 1988, Lifetime hired Patricia Fili as its head of programming. In

650-755: A resort was opened in Chicago on June 16, 1999 with plans for more locations worldwide. In October 1999, Disney announced that the Club chain would be shut down with their last day of operation being November 1, 1999. On September 4, 2001, the Chicago DisneyQuest closed leaving only the Disney World location left. ESPN Zone lasted longer than the other chains. As a chain it was closed down as of June 16, 2010 with five of its locations while two other continued operating by other companies, AEG and Zone Enterprises. With transfer of

715-524: A story about the relationship between Prince Harry and Meghan Markle . It also premiered the James Corden -produced Seatbelt Psychic with Thomas John . In addition to feature films, as well as made-for-television films previously broadcast on other networks, Lifetime is known for producing various original films of its own. These films are produced by the network's own Lifetime Pictures unit. A movie-focused spin-off channel, known informally as

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780-512: A weekly, Saturday-afternoon game beginning in the 2017 season. Lifetime launched an HD simulcast on April 16, 2008. On May 30, 2012, Canadian television broadcaster Shaw Media announced that it would rebrand Showcase Diva , a Category B subscription specialty channel as the Canadian version of Lifetime under a licensing agreement with A+E Networks; Showcase Diva relaunched as Lifetime on August 27, 2012. AETN All Asia Networks plans to bring

845-801: Is fully dubbed in Portuguese . In Mexico, it was launched on October 1, 2014, replacing The Biography Channel . A+E Networks launched the African version of Lifetime on Channel 131 on DStv on July 22, 2014. On April 25, 2022, it was announced the channel alongside Lifetime Play would cease transmission in Africa by the end of May. A+E Networks launched a version of Lifetime for Israel on September 14, 2014, replacing The Biography Channel . On March 16, 2016, A&E Television Networks announced that Lifetime (Turkey) channel would be launched on April 26, 2016, in Turkey with

910-666: Is jointly owned by Hearst Communications and The Walt Disney Company . It features programming that is geared toward women or features women in lead roles. As of November 2023 , Lifetime is available to approximately 63,000,000 pay television households in the United States-down from its 2011 peak of 100,000,000 households. As of November 2023, Lifetime has garnered nominations for 63 Emmy Awards , 8 Golden Globe Awards and 20 Critics' Choice Movie Awards . There were two television channels that preceded Lifetime in its current incarnation. Daytime , originally called BETA ,

975-416: Is part of Disney Entertainment , a division of The Walt Disney Company that oversees its owned-and-operated television content, assets and sub-divisions. Following the full acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney on March 20, 2019, the division was given the unification name Walt Disney Television and rebranded two years later as Disney General Entertainment Content . Sub-divisions of DGEC include

1040-677: The American Broadcasting Company , ABC News , Disney Branded Television , Disney Television Studios , ABC Signature , Freeform , Hulu Original Content Teams , FX Networks , FX Productions , and Nat Geo. Media conglomerate Capital Cities/ABC Inc. merged into The Walt Disney Company in 1996 and was initially re-branded as ABC Group . Acquired assets from the merged company included ABC Television Network Group, CC/ABC Broadcasting Group ( ABC Radio Network , 8 TV and 21 radio stations), ABC Cable and International Broadcast Group, CC/ABC Publishing Group and CC/ABC Multimedia Group to

1105-567: The Lifetime Movie Network or "LMN" due to its frequent rebrands, was launched in 1998. In its early years, Lifetime occasionally broadcast coverage of women's professional sports . From its inaugural season in 1997 to 2000, Lifetime was one of three broadcasters of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), alongside NBC and ESPN . In 2000, Lifetime phased out its live broadcasts and replaced them with an original series documenting

1170-508: The Nielsen ranking system that favored "upscale" couples who shared a television set. By January 1995, Lifetime was the sixth most-highly rated subscription network by Nielsen. In 1996, TCI , one of the United States' largest subscription providers, announced that it would no longer carry Lifetime in certain markets to make room for the soon-to-be-launched Fox News Channel , in which TCI held

1235-531: The United Kingdom on September 27, 2004 as the first use of the ABC brand outside the US. While ABC News Now was launched that year in the US on digital subchannel of 70 ABC owned & operated and affiliates. On June 12, 2007, Disney spun off its ABC Radio Networks and merged it into Citadel Communications with Citadel Broadcasting while retaining its ESPN Radio and Radio Disney networks and stations and

1300-626: The WNBA and the America's Cup , in which it sponsored the first women's crew team to compete. McCormick also strengthened the network's ties with women's organizations, such as the National Organization for Women , and began airing public service announcements about women's issues, such as breast cancer awareness. Meanwhile, the channel's original programming was aimed not just at women aged 24–44, but these women's spouses, who research showed watched

1365-465: The "Fox" name from assets acquired from 21st Century Fox, with 20th Century Fox Television becoming 20th Television; Fox 21 Television Studios became the second incarnation of Touchstone Television to avoid brand confusion with Fox Corporation ; and ABC Studios merged with the original incarnation of ABC Signature Studios to form the current ABC Signature . In addition, the original syndication arm of 20th Century Fox Television also called "20th Television"

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1430-620: The Lifetime channel into Southeast Asia. The channel began broadcasting on June 14, 2013, 6.00 p.m with Astro and StarHub TV being two of the first providers to carry Lifetime in Asia. In July, available in Hong Kong now TV channel 520. And since September 1, 2014, Lifetime Asia airs in the Philippines on Dream Satellite TV channel 18 and SkyCable . A+E Networks UK launched a version of Lifetime for

1495-592: The March 14, 2018, Disney Company reorganization, in anticipation of integrating Fox assets from a proposed acquisition , all international channels including Disney Channels have been transferred to Walt Disney Direct-to-Consumer and International , a new segment, with US channels remaining with Disney–ABC Television Group. All global sales units and distribution units have been transfer to the Disney Direct-to-Consumer segment. On October 8, 2018, Disney announced

1560-793: The Pooh primetime specials. DKN was placed under senior vice president of sales at ABC, Dan Barnathan, and would also work on some ads with Radio Disney , Disney.com and the Disney Adventures magazine. DKN added Toon Disney when the channel started accepting ads in September 2000. Iger was named president and chief operating officer of The Walt Disney Company in January 2000. In 2000, with an investment by Bain Capital and Chase Capital Partners , Heyward re-purchased DIC Entertainment, L.P. from Disney, making

1625-478: The UK and Ireland in November 2013. The network was unsuccessful in the market, as Lifetime's program contractors instead distributed their programming on different networks, and it slowly lost rights over the years. The channel closed at 06:00 on March 1, 2021, after A+E Networks UK contracted with Discovery+ to carry Lifetime's original network-produced American programming in the UK and Ireland. Lifetime announced

1690-760: The Vice channel with an indicated early 2016 launch. Disney also directly made two $ 200 investments in Vice Media in November 2015, then a week later in December, they directly invested in it again for 10% to assist in funding its programming. ABC Family became Freeform on January 12, 2016. On April 21, 2016, Disney–ABC sold its share in Fusion to Univision. In September 2016, the group's president Ben Sherwood named Bruce Rosenblum, Television Academy chairman and former head of Warner Bros. TV Group, as president of business operations in s

1755-407: The company re-independent In September 2002, then-Disney Chairman/CEO Michael Eisner outlined a proposed realignment of the ABC broadcast network's daytime parts with the similar unit in its cable channels: ABC Saturday mornings with Disney Channel units ( Toon Disney & Playhouse Disney ), ABC daytime with Soapnet and ABC prime time with ABC Family. In October 2003, ABC Family Worldwide

1820-432: The cooperation of Multi Channel Developers. Lifetime Turkey ceased operations on April 26, 2019. A localized version of Lifetime was launched on September 22, 2017, by A+E Networks Asia-Pacific and local company iHQ . Its programming primarily consists of Korean dramas, talk shows, and entertainment programs. Backstreet Rookie is the first Korean drama invested in by the channel. In 2019, A&E Television Networks

1885-573: The decision showed that Fox "might have an agenda of its own that is anti-woman." TCI executives were surprised and angry about the public's reaction. TCI's vice president of programming was quoted in The New York Times as saying, "I resent the implication that they are the women's network. Other networks come in to us and say Lifetime is not telling the truth. Lifetime is a women's channel only in name and advertising. [...] It programs for ratings." TCI senior vice president Robert Thomson stated that

1950-554: The development of non-scripted programming. On October 1, 2024, ABC Signature was folded into 20th Television. As of October 2024 , the following are the current units based on reporting structure: Transferred to Disney Media and Entertainment Distribution (DMED) Re-organizational transfers 2018 These assets were transferred to Walt Disney Direct-to-Consumer & International (then Disney Media and Entertainment Distribution ) in 2018, which include: Others Walt Disney Television and Telecommunications (WDTT)

2015-561: The dissolution of the ABC Daytime division, ABC Family Worldwide began taking operational control of Soapnet until that network was slowly discontinued for Disney Junior ; which would later rebrand to Disney Jr. on June 1, 2024. In July 2012, NBCUniversal confirmed plans to sell its 15.8% stake in A+E Networks to Disney for $ 3 billion (along with its previous owner Hearst Entertainment & Syndication , who became 50-50 partners in

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2080-502: The division would be renamed into the second incarnation of Walt Disney Television following the completion of its acquisition of 21st Century Fox . The acquisition added 20th Century Fox Television , FX Networks and FX Productions , Fox 21 Television Studios , and National Geographic Global Networks to the division. Fox television executives Peter Rice , Dana Walden, John Landgraf , and Gary Knell joined The Walt Disney Company on March 20, 2019. On March 5, 2019, Craig Hunegs

2145-476: The end of the 2010–11 season, although special feature episodes continued to air intermittently on Fox. Lifetime aired more than 40 new episodes of the program before cancelling it in 2013. On July 21, 2017, Lifetime simulcasted the premiere of Disney Channel 's original movie Descendants 2 ; marking the first time the channel premiered a program produced for a wholly-owned Disney subsidiary. In 2018, Lifetime premiered Harry & Meghan: A Royal Romance ,

2210-653: The final three seasons of the Blair Brown –starring dramedy The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd from NBC after the network canceled it. The network also showed movies from the portfolios of its owners, Hearst, ABC, and Viacom. In 1991, reporter Joshua Hammer stated, "Considered one of cable TV's backwaters, [...] Lifetime network was replete with annoying gabfests for housewives and recycled, long-forgotten network television series, such as Partners in Crime and MacGruder and Loud . [...] Under Fili's direction, Lifetime has gone

2275-436: The first three years of her tenure, she changed 60 percent of Lifetime's programming, by her own estimate. In addition to overhauling Lifetime's signature talk show, Attitudes , by hiring a new producer and refocusing it on current women's issues, Fili acquired the rights to syndicated network hits like Moonlighting and L.A. Law . She also oversaw the production of the first Lifetime movies ever made, along with carrying

2340-695: The fold. The Cable and International Broadcast Group contained ownership shares of ESPN Inc. (80%), A&E Television Networks (37.5%), DIC Productions, L.P. (Limited Partnership stake), Lifetime Television (50%) and its international investments. These investments included Telephone-München (50%, Germany; included 20% of RTL II ), Hamster Productions. (33%, France) and Scandinavian Broadcasting System (23%, Luxembourg). ESPN also had international holdings: Eurosport (33.3%, England), TV Sport (10%, France; Eurosport affiliate) and The Japan Sports Channel (20%). The Publishing Group including Fairchild Publications , Chilton Publications , multiple newspapers from

2405-430: The highest quality entertainment and information programming, and advocating a wide range of issues affecting women and their families." In the past, Lifetime used to air several game shows in daytime and early evenings, including Supermarket Sweep , Shop 'til You Drop , Rodeo Drive , Born Lucky , and Debt . Lifetime also produced one original game show ( Who Knows You Best? , starring Gina St. John), with

2470-562: The joint venture). On August 21, 2013, Disney–ABC announced it will lay off 175 employees. The layoffs are expected to hit positions among technical operations as well as the unit's eight local stations. On October 28, ABC News and Univision Communications launched Fusion , a cable Hispanic news and satire channel. In August 2014, A+E took a 10% stake in Vice Media for $ 250 million, then announced in April 2015 that H2 would be rebranded into

2535-762: The launch of a Latin American version of the network, which launched on July 1, 2014, in association with Sony Pictures Television Latin America . It supplanted the now-defunct Sony Spin channel (formerly known as Locomotion from 1996 to 2005 and Animax from 2005 to 2011) on the Amazonas satellite serving South America. Lifetime Latin America is currently distributed by Ole Distribution , currently based in Bogotá , Colombia, under license from A+E Networks Latin America and Sony Pictures Television Latin America . In Brazil , its programming

2600-528: The lives of WNBA players. The network stated that it wanted to focus on "stories" rather than event coverage; the program package would move to ESPN2 . As part of an arrangement with Raycom Sports , the network also broadcast the LPGA 's Tournament of Champions in 1998. In February 2017, A&E Networks acquired an equity stake in the National Women's Soccer League , and announced that Lifetime would broadcast

2665-481: The main Lifetime network, and formerly imported series with rights held by Lifetime but no carriage due to the main network's current format. LRW also features no original series or films, deferring from Lifetime and LMN , though it did burn off the 2011 Lifetime reality series Love Handles: Couples in Crisis , which only aired twice on the main network. DirecTV carried the network until July 2007. Orby TV also carried

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2730-503: The merger, ABC ended its ABC Productions division operations while keeping its boutique production companies: Victor Television , DIC Productions, L.P. , ABC/Kane Productions and Greengrass Productions . The international operations of Disney TV International and ABC Cable and International Broadcast Group were merged in June as Disney/ABC International Television . Under Disney, ABC Group sold various publishing companies in 1997. Chilton

2795-538: The network for the last year of that service's existence. Overall carriage has declined as providers choose instead to carry high definition networks rather than standard definition-only channels such as LRW without original programming, and Lifetime itself promoting on-demand access to past series. Its programming has further been thinned out with the launch of Defy TV , a Scripps -owned digital broadcast network which draws from Lifetime's program archive for its own schedule, with Tegna 's own network Twist (wound down at

2860-404: The network in the evenings with their wives. This was done by making the male characters in Lifetime's original programming – such as the film series Spencer for Hire – more appealing to men by making them more masculine. These roles were more stereotypical than previous Lifetime movies, which usually featured women protagonists on their own. This helped Lifetime take advantage of a known bias in

2925-511: The new network was formed with equal representation from Hearst, ABC, and Viacom, and the board elected Thomas Burchill as the new network's first CEO. It was not an initial success, reportedly losing $ 36 million in its first two years of operation, and did not become profitable until 1986. The channel suffered from low viewership, with a poll reportedly finding that some TV viewers erroneously believed it carried religious content. In 1985, Lifetime started branding itself as "Talk Television", with

2990-517: The newly created position, to reduce the number of direct reports from 17 to about 8. Roseblum would oversee ad sales in conjunction with channel heads, affiliate sales and marketing, engineering, digital media, global distribution, IT, research and strategy and business development. This allows Sherwood to focus on content and direct operating units that continue to directly report to him, ABC network units, cable channel units (Disney Channels Worldwide, and Freeform), ABC Studios and ABC TV Stations. With

3055-472: The number of homes that would lose Lifetime to approximately 300,000. Still, women's groups and politicians rallied behind Lifetime. Colorado representative Patricia Schroeder called TCI's decision a "power play" between TCI chief executive John Malone and Fox executive Rupert Murdoch , and said, "Women kind of feel like they're being rolled over so that the guys who run these companies can make more money." Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank said that

3120-491: The ongoing post Disney-CC/ABC merger realignment and retirement of its president, the Walt Disney Television and Telecommunications group's division was reassigned to other groups with Walt Disney Television International (including Disney Channels International and Buena Vista Television domestic syndication and pay-TV divisions, GMTV and Super RTL holdings) were transferred to Capital Cities/ABC. In May due to

3185-528: The reaction was "laughably out of scale," based on the fact that less than 10 percent of Lifetime's audience would be affected. TCI executives chalked the politicians' reactions up to lobbying by Lifetime (it being an election year), and suggested to the Times that in retaliation, Disney, one of Lifetime's parent companies, might have trouble launching a new network on TCI. In 1997, it was reported that Lifetime had 67.7 million subscribers. On August 27, 2009, Lifetime

3250-464: The remaining ESPN Zones to other companies, Disney Regional Entertainment shut down. On July 3, 2017, the final DisneyQuest closed down at Disney Springs and was demolished for the NBA Experience. Disney%E2%80%93ABC Television Group Disney General Entertainment Content ( DGEC ), formerly ABC Group , Disney–ABC Television Group and the second incarnation of Walt Disney Television ,

3315-478: The retirement of Hightower as president, WDTT's divisions were reassigned to other groups, with most of them transferred to either The Walt Disney Studios or CC/ABC. KCAL was sold to Young Broadcasting in May 1996 due to CC/ABC ownership of KABC-TV . Lifetime (TV network) Lifetime is an American basic cable channel that is part of Lifetime Entertainment Services , a subsidiary of A&E Networks , which

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3380-404: The rights to the existing 26 episodes of The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd from its original broadcaster NBC , and produced 39 additional episodes of the series. Lifetime did not renew the show reportedly because of low ratings and the high cost to produce the program. In late 2011, the network began to air new episodes of America's Most Wanted , a program canceled in series form by Fox at

3445-545: The same casting division. After assuming full control over Hulu in May 2019, Disney reorganized Hulu's reporting structure in July 2019, placing Hulu's Scripted Originals team under Walt Disney Television. Under the new structure, Hulu's SVP of Original Scripted Content would report directly to the chairman of Disney Television Studios and ABC Entertainment. On August 10, 2020, Disney Television Studios rebranded all of its three studios as part of merger terms which required dropping

3510-483: Was a division of The Walt Disney Company . At the time Disney and Capital Cities/ABC merged, WDTT's divisions were The Disney Channel , KCAL-TV Los Angeles, Walt Disney Television , Touchstone Television , Buena Vista Home Entertainment , and Disney Interactive . On August 24, 1994, with Jeffrey Katzenberg 's resignation, a reorganization of Disney took place in which Richard H. Frank became head of newly formed Walt Disney Television and Telecommunications, which

3575-577: Was acquired by A&E Networks ; the company was already owned by Lifetime's shareholders Hearst and Disney, but with additional shares owned by NBC Universal . NBCUniversal divested its stake in A&;E Networks in 2012, once again leaving the network as a Disney/Hearst joint venture. Lifetime, best known for its “women in peril” original movies Lifetime's original content is currently composed of made-for-TV films and reality series, such as Dance Moms . The network states that it "is committed to offering

3640-685: Was changed from a unit directly reporting to the Disney COO to a unit running within the ABC Cable Networks Group under Anne Sweeney . On April 21, 2004, Disney announced a restructuring of its Disney Media Networks division with Sweeney being named president of Disney–ABC Television Group, and then-ESPN president George Bodenheimer becoming co-CEO of the division with Sweeney, as well as president of ABC Sports. This move added ABC TV Network within Disney–ABC. ABC1 channel initially launched in

3705-473: Was folded into Disney-ABC Domestic Television . On October 12, 2020, the division was rechristened as Disney General Entertainment Content . In December 2020, Touchstone Television merged into 20th Television . On February 3, 2021, Disney Television Studios established a new unit known as "Walt Disney Television Alternative", which will be headed by former senior vice president of alternative, specials and late-night series at ABC, Rob Mills, to oversee

3770-456: Was launched in August 2001, mainly as a response to Lifetime's challenges from the then-launching WE tv and Oxygen networks for the women's network market. LRW is available in over 10 million homes via some cable providers, Verizon FiOS , and AT&T U-verse . The network has a mixture of comedies , dramas, how-to, game shows and reality programming that had once aired or is currently airing on

3835-533: Was launched in March 1982 by Hearst-ABC Video Services . The cable service operated four hours per day on weekdays. The service was focused on alternative women's programming. The following year, the Cable Health Network was launched as a full-time channel in June 1982 with a range of health-related programming. Lifetime was established on February 1, 1984, as the result of a merger of Hearst/ABC's Daytime and Viacom 's Cable Health Network. A board for

3900-435: Was named to lead the combined Disney Television Studios — ABC Studios, ABC Signature, 20th Century Fox Television and Fox 21 Television Studios. He would report to Walden. Following the completed acquisition of the 21st Century Fox assets in March 2019, Disney reorganized its television division to align various operations. On June 10, 2019, Disney announced that both Disney Television Studios and FX Entertainment would share

3965-634: Was promoted from president and chief operating officer in February 1999 to chairman of ABC Group and president of Walt Disney International. In March 2000, ABC formed the Disney Kids Network (DKN) advertising group via consolidation to sell ads for ABC's " TGIF " primetime programming, Disney's One Saturday Morning , the Disney's One Too syndicated programming block, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire , The Wonderful World of Disney , Mickey Mouse and Winnie

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4030-827: Was responsible for Pleasure Island , the Disney Village Marketplace and the Disney Village Resort and spearhead the initial plans for ESPN Club , which was initial conceptually similar to ESPN Zone. Several concepts were placed in the planning stage. Club Disney was the first to be launched on February 21, 1997 at the Westlake Promenade in Thousand Oaks, California with another in Southern California opened later that year. On June 19, 1998, Disney Regional Entertainment opened its first DisneyQuest,

4095-517: Was scheduled to launch a version of Lifetime for the Middle East & Northern Africa region. A&E Television Networks launched a version of Lifetime Movie Network for Australia on September 1, 2020, as a joint venture with the Foxtel network. LRW , or Lifetime Real Women , is an American pay television channel which is intended as a complementary service to the main Lifetime network. It

4160-724: Was sold to Reed Elsevier for $ 447 million and received $ 142 million from Euromoney Publications for Institutional Investor. In April, Knight Ridder purchased four newspapers including The Kansas City Star and The Fort Worth Star-Telegram for $ 1.65 billion. In August 1999, Fairchild Publications was sold to Conde Nast Publications for $ 650 million. In March 1998, ABC placed it shares of Scandinavian Broadcasting System up for sale. In late 1999, Walt Disney Television, along with other television units, were transferred again from The Walt Disney Studios to Disney–ABC Television Group and merged with ABC 's primetime division, ABC Entertainment , forming ABC Entertainment Group. Robert A. Iger

4225-452: Was split from its filmed entertainment business, Walt Disney Studios . On December 5, 1994, Walt Disney Computer Software was transferred within WDTT as Disney Interactive . At the end of his contract on April 30, 1995, Frank left Disney. Dennis Hightower , a marketing executive, was appointed by April 9 to succeed Frank. In April 1996, due to ongoing post-Disney-CC/ABC merger realignment and

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