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Five Years After Fox Deal, Disney’s Unprecedented Emmy Nominations Haul ‘Validates’ Its High-Wire TV Act
Disney's unprecedented haul of 183 Emmy nominations is a validation of its TV strategy, in the eyes of Disney Entertainment co-chair Dana Walden.
On Wednesday morning, Team Disney received 183 votes of confidence from the Television Academy on how the Mouse House is performing as the company expands TV content production to unprecedented scale and with a great diversity of program genres and formats. She sees the outpouring of recognition for FX’s big swings like “Shogun” and genre-defying “The Bear” as evidence that the brand has transcended its roots as a linear basic cable channel to be meaningful to viewers in a world of ever-expanding streaming choices. Disney is in the midst of a prolonged negotiation with Comcast about buying out the latter’s roughly 30% stake in the streaming platform that launched in 2008 as a joint venture of NBCUniversal and Fox.
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