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Encyclopedia > Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
Buena Vista International logo.
Buena Vista International logo.
Buena Vista production logo, 1950s.
Buena Vista production logo, 1950s.

Buena Vista Pictures Distribution, Inc. is a motion picture and television feature distribution company owned by The Walt Disney Company. Buena Vista International is the worldwide equivalent, and Buena Vista Home Entertainment is the firm's video and DVD distribution arm. Image File history File links Buena_Vista_International. ... Image File history File links Buena_Vista_International. ... Image File history File linksMetadata BuenaVistaFilmDistribution. ... Image File history File linksMetadata BuenaVistaFilmDistribution. ... The Walt Disney Company (most commonly known as Disney) (NYSE: DIS) is one of the largest media and entertainment corporations in the world. ... Look up Video in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Video is the technology of capturing, recording, processing, transmitting, and reconstructing moving pictures, typically using celluloid film, electronic signals, or digital media. ... The official DVD logo. ...


Prior to 1954, Walt Disney's productions were distributed by RKO Radio Pictures. However, a dispute over the value of Disney's True-Life Adventures series of live-action documentary featurettes led to Walt and his older brother Roy Oliver Disney founding the Buena Vista Distribution Company to handle the distribution of their own product. Buena Vista's first release was the Academy Award winning live-action feature The Living Desert. For the company founded by Disney, see The Walt Disney Company. ... The classic logo of RKO Radio Pictures. ... Roy Oliver Disney (June 24, 1893–December 20, 1971). ... Academy Awards The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent film awards in the United States. ... The Living Desert is a 1953 Walt Disney documentary film which shows the everyday lives of the animals of the desert of the southwestern United States. ...


The company name comes from Buena Vista Street, the road on which the current Walt Disney Studios and company headquarters are situated. The Walt Disney Company (most commonly known as Disney) (NYSE: DIS) is one of the largest media and entertainment corporations in the world. ...


The company distributes all features produced by Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, Hollywood Pictures, DisneyToon Studios, Touchstone Television, Miramax, and several small independent companies which employ Buena Vista to distribute their films. Walt Disney Pictures is an American movie studio, with off-shoot studios in Japan and other sites in the United States. ... The Touchstone lightning logo, used from 1985 to 2002. ... Hollywood Pictures logo. ... DisneyToon Studios is an animation studio and a division of Walt Disney Feature Animation. ... Touchstone Television is an American television production company. ... Miramax is a Big Ten film distribution and production company. ...


Buena Vista has a television division, Buena Vista Television, which syndicates shows such as sister Disney division ABC's Desperate Housewives and Lost to broadcasters around the world. It also syndicates the daily talk shows Live with Regis and Kelly, The Tony Danza Show, and weekly film-review program Ebert & Roeper. Buena Vista Television is the television syndication firm of Disney/ABC Television Group, a division of The Walt Disney Company, that handles the TV distribution of product from Disney, Touchstone Television, and ABC. The company also produces and distributes its own shows, such as The Tony Danza Show, Ebert & Roeper... In the television industry (as in radio), syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast programs to multiple stations, without going through a broadcast network. ... The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is a television and radio network in the United States. ... Desperate Housewives is an American television series, created by Marc Cherry, that began airing on ABC in 2004, in HDTV. Set on Wisteria Lane in fictional Fairview, Eagle State, the series tracks the lives of four housewives, following their domestic struggles while several mysteries involving their husbands, friends and neighbors... Lost is an American drama-adventure television series concerning the survivors of a plane crash on a mysterious, tropical deserted island. ... Kelly Ripa tends to Regis Philbins splinter in the improvised first segment of the show. ... The Tony Danza Show is a daytime talk show hosted by actor Tony Danza. ... Ebert & Roeper (formerly Siskel & Ebert) is a popular movie-review television program starring film critics Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper, both of the Chicago Sun-Times. ...


The current company logo is a silohuette of the iconic Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland, the company's flagship theme park which opened a year after the company was founded. Disneylands Sleeping Beauty Castle, on May 5, 2005 with brand-new decorations added just hours before. ... Disneyland Park is a theme park at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, USA. It is owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company. ...

The Walt Disney Company

Board of directors: John Bryson | John S. Chen | Judith Estrin | Robert Iger (President, CEO) | Steve Jobs | Fred Langhammer | Aylwin Lewis | Monica Lozano | Robert Matschullat | George J. Mitchell (Chairman) | Leo O'Donovan | Gary L. Wilson The Walt Disney Company (most commonly known as Disney) (NYSE: DIS) is one of the largest media and entertainment corporations in the world. ... It has been suggested that Board of Trustees be merged into this article or section. ... John E. Bryson is chairman, president and chief executive officer of Edison International, based in Rosemead, California. ... John S. Chen (b. ... Judith L. Estrin is President and Chief Executive Officer of Packet Design, LLC, a company that she co-founded in May 2000 to develop networking technology. ... Robert Iger Robert A. Iger (born February 10, 1951 in Oceanside, New York) is President and Chief Executive Officer of The Walt Disney Company. ... Steven Paul Jobs (born February 24, 1955) is currently the CEO of Apple Computer and is a leading figure in both the computer and entertainment industries. ... Fred H. Langhammer is Chairman, Global Affairs, of The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. ... Aylwin B. Lewis is President and Chief Executive Officer of Sears Holdings Corporation, a nationwide retailer. ... Monica C. Lozano is Publisher and Chief Executive Officer of La Opinión, the largest Spanish-language newspaper in the United States, and Senior Vice President of its parent company, ImpreMedia, LLC. In addition, Ms. ... Robert W. Matschullat is a private equity investor, and served from October 1995 until June 2000 as Vice Chairman of the board of directors of The Seagram Company Ltd. ... George John Mitchell, GBE (born August 20, 1933 in Waterville, Maine) is Chairman of the Walt Disney Company. ... Father Leo J. ODonovan (born in New York City, New York in 1934) was President of Georgetown University. ... Gary L. Wilson is Chairman of Northwest Airlines. ...

Record Labels: Walt Disney Records | Lyric Street Records | Hollywood Records | Mammoth Records
Studio Assets: Buena Vista Distribution | The Walt Disney Studios | Walt Disney Feature Animation | Touchstone Pictures | Pixar Animation Studios | Miramax Films
Television Stations: KABC | KFSN | KGO | KTRK | WABC | WJRT | WLS | WPVI | WTVD | WTVG
Television Assets: ABC | ABC1 | ABC Family | ABC News | ABC News Now | ABC Sports | Buena Vista Television | Disney Channel | ESPN | ESPN2 | ESPN Classic | ESPN Deportes | ESPNEWS | ESPN Now | ESPNU | Jetix | SOAPnet | Toon Disney | Touchstone Television
Radio Stations: KABC | KDIS | KDIS | KESN | KGO | KLOS | KQRS | KSCS | KSFO | KSPN | KSPN | KTYS | KXXR | WABC | WBAP | WDRQ | WDVD | WEAE | WEPN | WFDF | WGVX | WJR | WJZW | WKHX | WLS | WMAL | WMKI | WMVP | WPLJ | WRQX | WWMK | WYAY | WZZN
Radio Networks: ABC News & Talk | ABC News Radio | ABC Radio | ESPN Radio | ESPN Deportes Radio | Radio Disney
Parks and Resorts: Disneyland Resort | Walt Disney World Resort | Tokyo Disney Resort¹| Disneyland Resort Paris | Hong Kong Disneyland Resort | Disney Cruise Line | Disney Regional Entertainment | Walt Disney Imagineering
¹Licensed and designed by Disney, owned and operated by The Oriental Land Company The Buena Vista Music Group is a collection of affiliated record labels all subsidaries of The Walt Disney Company. ... Alternate meanings: Disney (disambiguation) The Walt Disney Company (also known as Disney Enterprises, Inc. ... Lyric Street Records is a sister label of Hollywood Records. ... Hollywood Records is a record label owned by Disney. ... Founded in 1989 in Carborro, NC, Mammoth Records was one of the premiere independent record labels of the 1990s. ... The Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group is a collection of affiliated motion picture studios, all subsidiaries of The Walt Disney Company. ... ... Walt Disney Feature Animation (WDFA) is the animation studio that makes up a key element of The Walt Disney Company. ... The Touchstone lightning logo, used from 1985 to 2002. ... Pixar Animation Studios (NASDAQ: PIXR) is an award-winning computer generated imagery (CGI) animation firm based in Emeryville, California (USA). ... Miramax Films was a Big Ten film motion picture distribution and production company headquartered in New York City before being bought out by The Walt Disney Company. ... A television station is a type of broadcast station that broadcasts both audio and video to television receivers in a particular area. ... KABC-TV, ABC7 is an American Broadcasting Company (Disney/ABC) owned station in the Los Angeles area, and is the West Coast flagship station of the ABC network. ... KFSN-TV is an ABC owned-and-operated television station (O&O) in Fresno, California. ... KGO-TV (ABC7) is a television station based in San Francisco, California. ... KTRK TV is a television station in Houston, Texas, affiliated with the American Broadcasting Company network. ... WABC-TV, ABC7 is the New York City, USA television station that is owned and operated by ABC as well as the networks flagship. ... WJRT-TV (ABC 12) is the American Broadcasting Company-owned and operated television station in the Flint-Saginaw-Bay City, Michigan television market. ... WLS-TV (ABC7 Chicago) is the ABC owned-and-operated television station in Chicago, Illinois. ... WPVI-TV 6ABC is the owned-and-operated ABC television station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, owned by ABCs parent The Walt Disney Company with its transmitter in the Roxborough neighborhood (shared with KYW-TV). ... WTVD, ABC11, is a broadcast television station based in Durham, North Carolina. ... WTVG, known on air as 13ABC, is the ABC owned and operated television station in Toledo, Ohio, with a coverage area serving northwestern Ohio, Southeastern Michigan, and Essex County, Ontario. ... Braun HF 1, Germany, 1958. ... The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is a television and radio network in the United States. ... ABC1 is a television channel from Disney which initially launched exclusively on the British Digital terrestrial television platform Freeview on September 27, 2004. ... ABC Family is a U.S. cable television network currently owned by Disney/ABC. // History The network was founded by Pat Robertson in April 1977 as CBN Cable, an arm of his Christian Broadcasting Network. ... ABC News is a division of the American Broadcasting Company television and radio networks (ABC). ... ABC News Now is a television cable news channel offered online at ABCNews. ... ABC Sports is a division of the American Broadcasting Company, responsible for the televising of many sports events on the network. ... Buena Vista Television is the television syndication firm of Disney/ABC Television Group, a division of The Walt Disney Company, that handles the TV distribution of product from Disney, Touchstone Television, and ABC. The company also produces and distributes its own shows, such as The Tony Danza Show, Ebert & Roeper... Disney Channel is a cable television network run by The Walt Disney Company. ... ESPN (once an initialism for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is an American cable television network dedicated to broadcasting sports-related programming 24 hours a day. ... ESPN2 debuted on October 1, 1993, as a sister station of ESPN. Nicknamed the deuce, ESPN2 was to be branded as a network for a younger generation of sports fans featuring edgier graphics as well as extreme sports like motocross, snowboarding, and BMX racing. ... ESPN Classic features reruns of famous sporting events, sports documentaries, and sports themed movies. ... ESPN Deportes is an cable television network dedicated to broadcasting sports-related programming 24 hours a day. ... ESPNEWS (word origin: grammatical blend of ESPN and news), launched on November 1, 1996, is a 24-hour-a-day sports news television channel produced by the sports network ESPN. It airs news, highlights, press conferences, and commentary by analysts all in relation to sports. ... A network started by ESPN, ESPN Now posts around-the-clock listings of television events on the ESPN Family of Networks, as well as up-to-date news. ... ESPNU is a television channel that specializes in college sports, and is produced by, affiliated with and owned by parent network ESPN. The network was launched on March 4, 2005 from the Oklahoma State University Campus in Stillwater, Oklahoma. ... Jetix is a childrens television programming brand owned by The Walt Disney Company. ... An ident, usually shown at the top of the hour, or at the half-hour. ... Toon Disney is a 24-hour United States cable television channel owned by The Walt Disney Company that mostly airs childrens cartoons. ... Touchstone Television is an American television production company. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards and appeal to a wider international audience, this article may require cleanup. ... KABC (later KVX) 790 AM is a Los Angeles radio station, and a West Coast flagship station for the American Broadcasting Company. ... KDIS 1110 AM is a Radio Disney affiliate. ... KGO 810 AM is a news-talk format radio station based in San Francisco, California owned by ABC/Disney. ... 95. ... KQRS Billboard KQRS (92. ... 96. ... KSFO is a news talk radio station in San Francisco broadcasting on 560 AM. Its tag line is The News and Views You Wont Hear Anywhere Else. ... KSPN (710 AM) is a owned radio station of ABC, and operated by ESPN Radio. ... 93X (KXXR 93. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... WBAP is an AM radio station in the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex following a talk format. ... WDRQ is the callsign for the former Detroit, Michigan (USA) FM radio station 93. ... WDVD is a hot adult contemporary radio station in Detroit, Michigan, broadcasting at 96. ... WEAE is a sports talk station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. ... WEPN, more commonly known as 1050 ESPN Radio, is a round the clock all-sports talk station in New York City featuring national and local sports programming. ... WFDF is the call sign of a radio station at 910 kHz on the AM dial in Flint, Michigan, which began broadcasting in 1922. ... Drive 105 is an alternative rock radio station (with multiple transmitters) serving the Minneapolis-St. ... The current logo for WJR-AM. WJR is a radio station in Detroit, Michigan, United States. ... Smooth Jazz 105. ... Kicks 101. ... WLS is a pioneer Chicago radio station. ... WMAL is one of the oldest radio stations in Washington, D.C.. It is a news-talk formatted station, broadcasting at AM 630. ... WMKI is a childrens radio station in the Boston market. ... WMVP (1000 AM) is the callsign of a commercial radio station in Chicago. ... WPLJ is a New York City radio station, broadcast on 95. ... Mix 107. ... WWMK AM 1260 is the Radio Disney affiliate in Cleveland, Ohio, and is owned by ABC Radio. ... WYAY FM (Eagle 106. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... A radio network is a network system which distributes radio programming to multiple radio stations. ... ABC News & Talk is a news/talk and entertainment radio channel programmed and distributed by ABC Radio for satellite radio services. ... ABC News is a division of the American Broadcasting Company television and radio networks (ABC). ... ABC Radio is a division of the American Broadcasting Company focused on AM radio and FM radio broadcasting. ... ESPN Radio is a national sports radio network in the United States launched on January 1, 1992. ... Radio Disney is a radio network based in Dallas, Texas in the United States broadcasting music and other content targeted at children. ... Walt Disney Parks and Resorts is the division of The Walt Disney Company which manages and builds the theme parks and vacation resorts for which Disney is famous. ... Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California (owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company) was home to two theme parks, three hotels, and a shopping and entertainment area. ... Cinderella Castle, at the center of the Magic Kingdom, is freshly decorated for the 18-month Happiest Celebration on Earth The Spaceship Earth sphere is the symbol of Epcot. ... Tokyo Disney Resort logo Resort Map The Tokyo Disney Resort is a theme park and vacation resort located in Urayasu, Chiba, Japan, just east of Tokyo. ... Disneyland Park, Paris Disneyland Resort Paris is a vacation and recreation resort in Marne-la-Vallée, in the suburbs of Paris, France, featuring two Disney theme parks, Disneyland Park and Walt Disney Studios Park. ... The Hong Kong Disneyland Resort (香港迪士尼樂園度假區) was built by the Government of Hong Kong and The Walt Disney Company and officially opened on September 12, 2005. ... The Disney Cruise Line is a cruise line owned by the Walt Disney Company. ... Disney Regional Entertainment is the division of Walt Disney Parks and Resorts that operates the ESPN Zone restaurants. ... Walt Disney Imagineering, was formed by entertainment mogul Walt Disney on December 16, 1952 as WED Enterprises(WED: Walter Elias Disney) to develop plans for a theme park and to manage Disneys personal assets. ... The Oriental Land Company is a Japanese leisure and tourism corporation that owns the Tokyo Disney Resort in Urayasu, Chiba, Japan. ...

Annual Revenue: $30.8 billion USD (2004) | Employees: 129,000 | Stock Symbol: NYSE: DIS | Website: disney.go.com Image File history File links Green_Arrow_Up. ... This article is about general United States currency. ... New York Stock Exchange (June 2003) The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) , also nicknamed the Big Board, is by far the largest stock exchange in the world (by dollar volume) and second largest by number of listings. ...



 

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