Danielle Gonzalez's List: ABC Family Research

• ABC Family Worldwide, Inc. offers contemporary and inclusive programming. It produces, broadcasts, and distributes live-action and animated family and children's television programming. The company’s programming includes series, movies, events, and ABC encore presentations. It operates The ABC Channel, a cable network that provides family-oriented entertainment and informational programming to the United States cable and satellite television households. The company distributes its own programming, and the programming of others in the United States and internationally. It maintains a post-production facility in Los Angeles, California; and owns an animation studio in Paris. ABC Family Worldwide, Inc. was formerly known as Fox Family Worldwide, Inc. and changed the name to ABC Family Worldwide, Inc. in 2001. The company was founded in 1990 and is based in Burbank, California. ABC Family Worldwide, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company

• • $2.9 billion acquisition by The Walt Disney Co. in 2001.
    2009 - first year ranked among top 10 basic cable networks.
    adults 18 to 49 and 18 to 34
    driven by a wave of successful original series
    exploits its new content around the world [ex:Greek airs in some 200 countries]
    ABC Family's increasingly significant collaboration with other Disney divisions represents a coming of age.
    ABC Family president Paul joined in 2004.
• • ABC Family targets Gen Y or "Millenials" people born from 1976 to 1996, ages 13 to 34 yrs old.

• The Disney/ABC Television Group is composed of The Walt Disney Company’s (NYSE: DIS) global entertainment and news television properties, owned television stations, and radio and publishing businesses. This includes ABC Entertainment Group, ABC News, ABC Owned Television Stations Group, Disney Channels Worldwide, ABC Family, and SOAPnet, as well as Disney/ABC Domestic Television and Disney Media Distribution. The Company’s equity interest in A+E Networks rounds out the Group’s portfolio of media businesses.
• ABC Family is distributed in over 97 million homes and features programming reflecting today’s families, entertaining and connecting with adults through relatable programming about today’s relationships – told with a mix of diversity, passion, humor and heart. ABC Family’s programming is a combination of network-defining original series and original movies, quality acquired series and blockbuster theatricals.  Emmy® Award-winning ABCFamily.com provides a variety of interactive entertainment and community features, from rich, fan-centric programming – including blogs, viewing parties, webisodes, and full episodes of the network’s hit programming – to sneak peek exclusive previews and behind-the-scenes clips.  ABC Family is also the destination for annual Holiday events with “13 Nights of Halloween” and “25 Days of Christmas.” The network’s millennial-focused content became available to Canadian audiences in Spring 2012 through an expansive licensing agreement with Corus Entertainment that launched ABC Spark.
• Disney ABC Domestic Television
   Disney-ABC Domestic Television is the content distribution arm for The Walt Disney Company within the United States and Canada.  An industry leader, the division provides The Walt Disney Company’s branded and non-branded top-tier motion picture and television programming to a wide spectrum of traditional and new media platforms.

• Disney Media Distribution (DMD) is responsible for the international distribution of The Walt Disney Company's branded and non-branded content to all platforms, encompassing television, broadband, and mobile outlets. 

   

  With strong demand for DATG content around the world, DMD is currently selling programming into more than 220 international markets, and this success has allowed DMD to pre-sell a number of new series globally before they air on the network.

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• This family-friendly television business must make its parent proud. Part of entertainment giant Walt Disney, ABC Family Worldwide operates cable channel ABC Family, a network that targets the 18-34-year-old audience segment with programming that is mostly on the safe side. The channel reaches nearly 100 million US households with a mix of original series (Greek, The Secret Life of the American Teenager) and syndicated reruns (Gilmore Girls, That '70s Show). ABC Family also airs both made-for-TV and theatrical movies. The channel operates as part of The Disney/ABC Television Group, which oversees Disney's TV, broadcasting, production, and distribution operations.