Darkbeer
10-27-2003, 04:24 AM
Disney Still Trying to Make ABC Channel Part of Family (http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/27/business/media/27abc.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5062&en=6d634f50c10f64c5&ex=1067922000&partner=GOOGLE) - New York Times, 10/27/03
QuikQuote: But Disney will now have to manage that real estate improvement without the services of Angela Shapiro, who was brought in as president of ABC Family a year ago and charged with giving the channel an identity that would build its ratings and make it more attractive to advertisers and cable system operators.
Ms. Shapiro, a highly regarded programming executive who previously led ABC's daytime division, is leaving the company, contending her contract was breached two weeks ago, Disney executives acknowledge. That was when Mr. Iger announced that Disney was putting ABC Family under the control of Anne Sweeney, the president of ABC's cable division.
QuikQuote: But Disney will now have to manage that real estate improvement without the services of Angela Shapiro, who was brought in as president of ABC Family a year ago and charged with giving the channel an identity that would build its ratings and make it more attractive to advertisers and cable system operators.
Ms. Shapiro, a highly regarded programming executive who previously led ABC's daytime division, is leaving the company, contending her contract was breached two weeks ago, Disney executives acknowledge. That was when Mr. Iger announced that Disney was putting ABC Family under the control of Anne Sweeney, the president of ABC's cable division.