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Disney to test its power with new streaming service

https://www.fiercevideo.com/video/h...half-its-viewers-watch-little-to-no-linear-tv

Here is something Disney is claiming for its Hulu Audience size though.

Hulu said that more than half of its viewers are either light- or non-viewers of linear TV, and that its cordless audience is growing, reaching 21 million cordless ad-supported viewers.

The streaming service is sharing these figures to illustrate the incremental ad campaign reach it can provide versus traditional TV. Hulu said that based on an average of multiple extended reach studies it conducted with Nielsen, 85% of viewers who saw a campaign on Hulu are considered light linear TV viewers.

Hulu also claimed that 53% of viewers who saw a campaign on Hulu never saw the campaign on TV. The company called out campaigns it ran for Kroger and Lexus, which Hulu said generated 82% and 72% incremental reach, respectively.
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https://www.fiercevideo.com/video/disney-plans-disney-hulu-and-espn-bundle-for-13-month-u-s

Here is the next plan for Disney to have a bundle for Hulu, Disney + and ESPN+ at $13 total

Disney confirmed today its plans to sell its three streaming video services – Hulu, ESPN+ and the upcoming Disney+ – bundled together for $12.99 per month in the U.S.

Disney+ will be priced at $6.99 per month when it launches on Nov. 12. Hulu’s ad-supported service is currently priced at $5.99 per month and ESPN+ costs $4.99 per month, meaning the bundle will provide a discount of approximately $5 on all three services combined. The bundle will be available on the same day that Disney+ launches.

Disney has previously mentioned the possibility of a streaming service bundle but this is the first time the company has confirmed it and provided pricing.
Disney is also working on more distribution partners for Disney+. CEO Bob Iger said that the company is still discussing distribution deals with partners like Apple and Amazon Channels and that he expects Disney will reach agreements with those companies.
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WPPCProductions said:
I wish they make ESPN a pay channel .I'm tired see all the cable subscribers including me at the time getting raped with their bloated subscriber fees.Especially for people like yours truly that dont watch the sports channels....I'm glad that I dumped the extended cable back in 2012.So ESPN and Fake News CNN and other channels I never watch dont get my hard earned money....
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Do you watch SYFY channel?
 
https://www.fiercevideo.com/cable/charter-contemplates-distribution-disney-hulu-and-espn

Charter and Disney today renewed their content distribution agreement, averting a possible channel blackout. The routine carriage deal announcement included some interesting information.

In addition to hammering out an agreement for Spectrum’s continued carriage of Disney channels including ABC and ESPN, the companies said the new deal also “contemplates” Charter’s future distribution of Disney’s streaming services, including Hulu, ESPN+ and the upcoming Disney+.

It’s not surprising that Disney+, like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video, would seek integration deals with pay TV providers to expand its reach; it’s likely discussing similar deals with Comcast and others. And it’s not surprising that Charter would want to offer integrated access to Disney+ to its subscribers. But a possible integration deal with ESPN+ or Hulu would be less common. Neither ESPN+ nor Hulu currently list any pay TV set-top boxes among their supported devices.
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Charter to consider Disney+ for their subscribers.
 
https://deadline.com/2019/08/lizzie...-terri-minsky-deal-disney-channel-1202702120/

Disney has announced that Lizzie McGuire will get a reboot on Disney+.

One of Disney Channel’s biggest hits, Lizzie McGuire, is coming back with a revival at the upcoming streaming platform Disney+. Hilary Duff is set to reprise her title role in the new series, which comes from the original series’ creator Terri Minsky. It is the first project under a new overall deal Minsky has signed with Disney Channel.

In the reimagined version of the sitcom, a sequel to the 2001 Disney Channel series, Lizzie McGuire (Duff) is a 30-year-old millennial navigating life in New York City. Like the original series, it will include the familiar animated version of a young Lizzie who offers up funny, revealing commentary on what 30-year-old Lizzie is really thinking.

Gary Marsh, President and Chief Creative Officer for Disney Channels Worldwide, is expected to talk about the series during the Disney+ presentation at the D23 Expo this afternoon.
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Honestly, I think they should do with the Disney channels what they've done with ESPN - Just build their own streaming CHANNELS
 
JeeperOne said:
Honestly, I think they should do with the Disney channels what they've done with ESPN - Just build their own streaming CHANNELS
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They had different streaming channels for the main Disney channel, Disney XD, and Disney Junior, possibly others, and eventually combined them into Disney Now and required a cable subscription. I take it that this will become a part of Disney+.
 
https://tvnewscheck.com/article/top-news/239046/iger-leaves-apples-board-as-showdown-looms/

Update Bob Iger has left the Apple board due to the fact that Disney+ and Hulu (Disney owned streamers) are competing against Apple TV+

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Walt Disney Co. CEO Robert Iger has stepped down from Apple’s board of directors as the two companies prepare to launch competing video streaming services aimed at market leader Netflix.

Apple disclosed Iger’s departure in a regulatory filing Friday, but his resignation became effective Tuesday. That’s the same day that Apple announced its long-awaited video streaming service will debut Nov. 1 and cost only $5 per month, less than half the price of Netflix’s most popular plan.


Disney is gearing up to launch a video streaming service for $7 per month later in November.

The dueling services raised potential conflicts of interest that apparently prompted Iger to step down after spending nearly eight years on Apple’s board.

Apple praised Iger as an “exemplary” board member and one of its “most trusted business partners” in a statement.

Iger responded in kind. “Apple is one of the world’s most admired companies, known for the quality and integrity of its products and its people, and I am forever grateful to have served as a member of the company’s board,” he said in a statement.
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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/jim-henson-sets-new-puppet-talk-show-at-disney-1249962

Jim Henson's production crew to also have a show at Disney+

Earth to Ned" is TV's only alien-hosted comedic talk show. (We think.)

'Earth to Ned' will be a comedic half-hour series in which an alien and his lieutenant interview celebrity guests.
A month after creative differences sank a planned Muppets revival, Disney+ is teaming with the Jim Henson Co. for a new puppet show — with a twist.

Disney+ has handed out a straight-to-series order for Earth to Ned, a comedic half-hour talk show in which an alien (and his lieutenant!) interview celebrity guests. The series will exclusively stream on Disney+, the subscription streaming platform set to launch Nov. 12 and compete with Netflix.
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https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/14/entertainment/disney-streaming-racist-trnd/index.html

Now Disney has issued a warning over some of its content classics.


He also omitted the scene in which black characters put up circus tents while singing "Song of the Roustabouts."
Disney is not the first studio to add a disclaimer on old titles that feature racial prejudices or other troubling content. For example, Warner Bros. used this on an old "Tom and Jerry" release:
"The cartoons you are about to see are products of their time. They may depict some of the ethnic and racial prejudices that were commonplace in American society. These depictions were wrong then and are wrong today. While these cartoons do not represent today's society, they are being presented as they were originally created, because to do otherwise would be that same as claiming these prejudices never existed."
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https://tvline.com/2020/01/09/lizzie-mcguire-revival-showrunner-leaves-disney-plus/

TV’s much-anticipated Lizzie McGuire revival has hit a snag: Original series creator Terri Minsky has stepped down as showrunner on the Disney+ project, prompting a pause in production.

“Fans have a sentimental attachment to Lizzie McGuire and high expectations for a new series,” a Disney spokesperson tells TVLine. “After filming two episodes, we concluded that we need to move in a different creative direction and are putting a new lens on the series.”

Minsky was also attached to the revival as an executive producer, but it’s currently unclear if she will continue in that role. The search for a new showrunner is now underway.

As previously reported, the Lizzie McGuire revival will bring back Hilary Duff in the title role, this time as a 30-year-old Lizzie who is living in New York City. In August, Duff revealed that Lizzie’s life “is framed pretty perfectly” when the show picks up: “She has her dream job [as] an apprentice for an interior designer,” as well as a “cute little apartment in Brooklyn” and “a gorgeous fiancé who is a chef at this cool SoHo restaurant.”
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Disney + is facing its first issues of uncertainties over its rebooted show.
 
RadioPatrol said:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/14/entertainment/disney-streaming-racist-trnd/index.html

Now Disney has issued a warning over some of its content classics.
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I remember watching Disney's "Song of the South" as a kid and it didn't strike me as racist of any kind. But it had been many years and I didn't recall it very well so I found a copy in Germany and downloaded it and watched it again.

Again, although it does have several Black stereotypical sequences in the film I think you have to want to see racism. It doesn't make itself known. To me it is similar to the blackout (no pun intended) of the old TV series "Amos & Andy". That show was designed as a sitcom and not a depiction of Black life in NY. In the same manner that Martin & Lewis or Laurel & Hardy or The Three Stooges did not portray Whites as bumbling idiots neither did Song of the South or Amos and Andy stereotype Blacks.

In another but related vein, what about all those cartoons that had one animal species trying to eat another? That is nature, after all. I have never heard anyone try to remove those from airing because it is now not PC to illustrate animal cruelty.

The people who watch the above examples know reality from fantasy. After all, we still laugh at a pratfall.
 
https://variety.com/2020/biz/news/disney-plus-to-launch-on-u-k-pay-tv-operator-sky-1203522107/

Disney + has a streaming contract in the UK.


Disney and Comcast-backed pay-TV operator Sky have struck a multi-year deal to bring Disney Plus to Sky Q and Now TV in the U.K. and Ireland.

The Mouse House streamer, which will be available for purchase as an app, will first launch on set-top box service Sky Q, followed by streaming service Now TV in the coming months.

The deal also includes the first-pay window for 20th Century film titles such as “Le Mans ’66” and “Terminator: Dark Fate,” which will continue to be made available to Sky Cinema customers.

It is believed that Sky bested the likes of BT and Virgin Media to secure the lucrative deal with Disney, which is similar in scope to its recently renewed multi-year agreement with Netflix.

Disney previously struck a distribution deal with French pay-TV firm Canal Plus in December. However, that deal was exclusive, with Canal Plus serving as the sole distributor for Disney Plus in France, and forcing other telco groups such as Orange, SFR, Bouygues Telecom and Free to go through Canal Plus to access the service.
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