Disney Channel

Who owns it..?
The disney channel is owned by The Walt Disney Company. The Walt Disney Company was founded on October 16th 1923, by brothers Walt and Roy Disney as an animation studio it is marketed to mostly children; however, in recent years the diversity of viewers has increased with an older audience. The key people that are involved with this channel is John E. Pepper, Jr. (Chairman), Robert Iger (CEO & President) and Anne Sweeney (President, Disney-ABC Television Group and Co-Chair, Disney Media Networks).

Brief history:
1983- Disney channel first aired on television and only aired for 18 hours a day. The first programme that was aired was the mickey mouse club.
1984- Disney Channel received a special citation from the United states president, Ronald Reagan
Dec 1986- Disney channel started airing 24 hours
1989- The all new mickey mouse club began: launch of some famous faces, such as Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguleria
1995- The channel was viewed in more than 8 million homes
1997- They dropped the 'the' out of the network name and split the channel into three programming blocks: Playhouse Disney, Zoog Disney and Vault Disney
Jan 1996- moved from premium cable to basic cable
1998- Zoog disney was introduced to the Disney channel, so two logos were created.. The two logo's coexisted until 2002
2001- The channel made a deal with ABC to air their original programmes
2002- Disney channel began to aim their programmes at all age groups, and aired musical programmes under the name 'pop concerts'
Sept 2002- Vault Disney was terminated
Oct 2002- The logo was changed
2002- A website was created
2002-2003- ratings grew high with programmes such as, Even Stevens, Thats so Raven and Kim possible
2005- That's So Raven became the network's highest-rated series of all time, as well as making history as the first Disney channel Original Series to beat the 65th episode limit and get 100 episodes and a spin off
2007- Disney Channel redesigned itself with new design elements and new bumpers
2007- a huge year for Disney Channel, especially because of the premiere of some of the most popular of the Disney channel movies to air, including Jump In and High School Musical 2.
2008- Condé Nast Portfolio was able to note that the Channel "has been adding a million viewers a month—every month—for the last five years"
July 2008- Disney Channel Spain started its broadcasting at the Digital terrestrial television free platform after several years at Digital+ ,a payment cable TV company
2008- 2009- Disney Channel starting Ex-YU Countries (Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo, Serbia, FYR Macedonia) named Adria

The logos:


The First logo creted







The second logo created







The current logo




Texts it produces:

• Thats so Raven
• The Suite Life of Zack and Cody
• Kim possible
• The mickey mouse club
• Hannah Montana
• Cory in the House
• Incredibles
• High school musical
• Cheetah girls

Career And History Of Jane Tranter

Jane Tranter, the second most important person at the BBC was born on 17th March 1963, in Oxford. Being at the age of 45 she is an english television execuetive, who is the head of fiction at the BBC. Her job is to oversee the corperations output in drama and comedy programmes as well as films and programmes acquired from overseas, across all television channels, mainly the BBC.

Tranter joined the BBC staff in 1985, after studying english literature at Kings college London and a secretarial course in Oxford. She started of work as a secretary in the radio department and 2 years later made a switch onto television, working as a floor manager on popular programmes such as EastEnders and Bergerac.

In that same year she was promoted to assistant script editor, working on the BBC's popular medical drama Casualty. Her outstanding ability suddenly caught the eye of producer David M. Thompson, who promoted her to act as script editor on the anthology drama series Screen One.

In 1992, she left the staff of the BBC to take up a position as a drama script editor at Carlton Television, working for Tracy Hofman, controller of drama. At Carlton Tranter oversaw the Timothy Spall-starring comedy-drama Frank Stubbs Promotes and the Victorian-era medical drama Bramwell, both of which became highly successful popular hits for ITV. Her success as an executive producer at Carlton led to the BBC making a bid to bring her back to their staff, and she returned to the Corporation in 1997.

In 2000, she was promoted to the BBC's overall Head of Drama, ultimately responsible for overseeing the Corporation's entire drama output across all channels, from the in-house departments and independent companies, in series, serials and one-offs. In 2003 she was responsible for a programming budget in the region of £324 million, and in 2002 alone was ultimately responsible for 473 hours of television.

In September 2006, Tranter was promoted to the newly-created Head of Fiction position at the BBC. This made her ultimately responsible not only for drama, but for comedy, films and acquired programmes from overseas.