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Anne Sweeney

Disney Trades In SOAPnet For Tot Net, Disney Junior

May 26, 2010 10:44 PM

If this were a soap opera, we’d spend the next few months following an endless series of misleading clues and Friday cliffhangers for the culprit who killed SOAPnet. But like so many soap plots, when you get to the end there’s no real mystery: SOAPnet, the original timeshifting channel, is…

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Posted In: Media & Publishing, TV, Cable & Telecom, Companies, Disney, ABC, anne sweeney, disney junior, soapnet

Disney’s Anne Sweeney Talks Hulu: It’s All About Casual Viewers

Apr 30, 2009 11:30 PM

I took the ABC.com player for a spin the other day, the first in a while, popping in through Fancast. I had to agree to some terms and download the player, a quick glimpse of why this strategy doesn’t work well for the casual fan. Then I had a kind…

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Posted In: Social Media, Video, Technologies / Formats, Broadband, Companies, Disney, Hulu, NBC Universal, News Corp., anne sweeney

@ CES: Disney’s Anne Sweeney: ‘Can’t Just Build It And Hope Viewers Come’

Jan 8, 2009 11:00 PM

The ABC.com episode player has delivered more than a half-billion episodes and a billion ads while ABC and Disney (NYSE: DIS) have sold “tens of millions” of episodes through iTunes, Anne Sweeney, co-chair, Disney Media Networks, and president, Disney-ABC Television Group, said during an Industry Insider session at CES this…

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Posted In: Media & Publishing, TV, Cable & Telecom, Technologies / Formats, Broadband, Companies, Disney, anne sweeney

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