[4][5] Instead, they made a deal with HBO to air a select number of Disney films, cartoons, and specials, including a live production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at Radio City Music Hall.

Eastern and Pacific Time – would become available on cable providers in all 50 U.S. states by September 1983, and accrue a base of more than 611,000 subscribers by December of that year.

The Multimedia 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.

[17] Comcast increased the ownership stakes in the network through mergers with forerunners of TCI and Continental under various circumstances.

[18] ABC Group chairman Robert A. Iger was named president and chief operating officer of The Walt Disney Company in January 2000.

Other ABC stations in markets served by Time Warner Cable, such as New York City, Los Angeles and Houston, were also affected by the outage as well before the FCC forced TWC to restore service to those areas on May 2.

In January 2004, Disney and Fox Kids Europe, Fox Kids Latin America launched a new joint brand for their children's television operations, Jetix, which would be used to brand programming blocks which aired on ABC Family and Toon Disney, its television channels in Europe and Latin America, along with its program library and merchandising.

[33] On December 16, 2008, Disney established a joint venture in Russia with Media One to create a network of 30 channels.

[42] 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 the joint venture).

[48] 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 the newly created position, to reduce the number of direct reports from 17 to about 8.

Rice would also replace Ben Sherwood, who is scheduled to leave his post as co-chair of Disney Media Networks.

FX Networks and National Geographic Partners would transfer over as is and report to President of Walt Disney Television.

The name would however be referenced numerous times in news sources about Disney's future restructurings and reorganizations post-2020.