Disney

The walt Disney company is one of the largest media and entertainment corporations in the world. Founded on October 16, 1923, by brothers Walt and Roy Disney as an animation studio, it has become one of the biggest Hollywood studios.

Disney's founder Walter Elias Disney was found the spirit of creativity, innovation and excellence. Walt arrived in California in the summer of 1923 with dreams and determination,. He had made a short film in Kansas City about a little girl in a cartoon world, called Alice's Wonderland, and he planned to use it as his "pilot" film to sell a series of these Alice Comedies to a distributor. On October 16, 1923, a New York distributor, M. J. Winkler, contracted to release the Alice Comedies, and this date became the formal beginning of The Walt Disney Company.

Originally known as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, with Walt Disney and his brother Roy as equal partners, the company soon changed its name, to the Walt Disney Studio, which was initially housed in a succession of storefront buildings in Hollywood.

In an effort to expand its business, Disney initiated the Disney Channel in 1983 and established a new film label, Touchstone Pictures, with the release of Splash in 1984. However, because of the widespread perception that Disney stock was undervalued relative to the company's assets, in 1984 there were attempts to stage hostile takeovers of the company. These efforts were unsuccessful and, in October, Michael Eisner and Frank Wells became chief executive officer and president, respectively

The studio continues to produce highly popular filmed entertainment, with animated films like Lady and the Tramp and Sleeping Beauty,

Disney Employees 137,000

Channels owned by Disney include:
Disney Channel
Playhouse Disney
Jetix
ESPN
Toon Disney
ABC

Disney Films Include:
Wall E
The chronicles of Narnia
High school musical
Cars

Micheal Grade

Micheal Grade is the executive chairman of ITV after leaving the BBC. Grade had immediately made his aggressive intentions clear when ITV poached the rights to host live FA Cup games and England internationals from the BBC. When joing ITV he said Michael Grade said in the statement that it was a "great privilege" to be invited to run ITV.
"It has been a tough career decision to leave the BBC but it was an opportunity I could not resist, given my family's history in the founding of ITV and my own background at London Weekend Television," he also said.
"My first priority at ITV will be to support the team in accelerating the improvement in programming performance for our viewers and advertisers.

Micheal grade began his career with the daily mail in 1960 and was a sports columnist to 1964 to 1966.

Micheal Grade had joined the BBC in 1984, where as controller of BBC1 he scrapped Doctor Who and bought Neighbours. Neighbours, at first was purely an afternoon programme, however in a later given timeslot, on the advice of his daughter who was irritated by the fact that she could not watch it due to her being at school. This proved to be a successful scheduling decision that still remained in place until February 2008 before it moved to channel five.

On 28 November 2006, Grade and the BBC confirmed that he was to resign from his post with the BBC to replace Sir Peter Burst as Chairman and Charles Allen as Chief Executive of one of the companies which formed part of its commercial rival ITV. Micheal Grades main objectives while being at ITV were to bring more sucess to its digital channels whcih include ITV2,3 and 4

He became chief executive of Channel 4 in 1988.

Micheal Grade returned to the BBC in 2004 after seven years out of broadcasting, when he chaired film studio Pinewood-Shepperton and lottery operator Camelot.