Disney-ABC Domestic Television
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| Type | Private (subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company) |
| Founded | Burbank, California, U.S. (1985) |
| Headquarters | Burbank, California, U.S. |
| Area served | North America |
| Key people | John E. Pepper, Jr., Chairman Robert Iger, President/CEO |
| Industry | Television Syndication |
| Owner | The Walt Disney Company |
| Parent | Disney-ABC Television Group |
| Website | www.disneyabc.tv |
Disney-ABC Domestic Television is the domestic television syndication firm of the Disney-ABC Television Group, a division of The Walt Disney Company, that handles the television distribution of product from Walt Disney Television and ABC Studios, such as Scrubs, The Golden Girls, My Wife and Kids, and According to Jim.
The company distributes first-run programming such as At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper and the daytime version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, as well as Live with Regis and Kelly, which is produced by Disney's O&O station WABC-TV. It also distributes the movie packages from corporate sibling Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group (Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, Hollywood Pictures, and Miramax Films).
Disney-ABC Domestic Television was established in 1985 as Buena Vista Television. In May 2007, the Walt Disney Company announced plans to scale back the use of the Buena Vista brand, instead focusing on the three core brands of Disney, ABC, and ESPN. [1] As a result, Buena Vista Television was rebranded for the fall 2007 season as Disney-ABC Domestic Television.
In the fall of 2007, DADT started using their new on-screen identity on its shows, its score being a newly remixed version of the previous Buena Vista Television theme.
[edit] History of ABC and syndication
ABC's first syndication arm, ABC Films, was spun-off as Worldvision Enterprises in 1973 due to fin-syn laws (which have been repealed), it is currently part of CBS Paramount Television. As BVTV, DADT initially acted as a de-facto syndication arm for ABC after Disney bought the network, since at the same time, ABC's original production division was folded into Touchstone Television. That company became ABC Studios in 2007, also as part of Disney's branding strategy. In between these transactions, Disney reorganized all its non-ESPN TV assets into the Disney-ABC Television Group in 2004, making BVTV the official syndcation arm of ABC.
[edit] External links
- Disney-ABC Domestic Television at the Internet Movie Database
- Syndicated Network Television Association - Disney-ABC Domestic Television
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