"The Walt Disney Company is a diversified worldwide entertainment company with operations in four business segments: Media Networks, Parks and Resorts, Studio Entertainment and Consumer Products. The Media Networks segment is comprised of the Company's television and radio networks and includes cable/satellite and international broadcast operations. It operates the Walt Disney World Resort and Disney Cruise Line in Florida, the Disneyland Resort in California, ESPN Zone facilities in several states and Anaheim Sports in California. It also licenses the operations of the Tokyo Disneyland Resort in Japan and licenses and manages the Disneyland Resort Paris in France. The Studio Entertainment segment produces live-action and animated motion pictures, television animation programs, musical recordings and live-stage plays. The Consumer Products segment licenses Walt Disney characters and other intellectual property to manufacturers, retailers, show promoters and publishers worldwide."  Information was obtained from Yahoo!Finanance.


Disney's Media networks include:  The Disney Channel, ESPN, ABC, Radio Disney, Walt Disney Pictures, and Toon Disney.


The Disney Channel is targeted for kids in between the age of 6-16.  It plays shows suck as:  Boy Meets World, Sister Sister, and Kim Possible.


Radio Disney is a kids radio station that is fairly new.  There is one in Indianapolis which is WRDZ 98.3.  They have fun contests that kids can play and win prizes.


"Walt Disney Pictures are movies for families and younger kids, although you will find older kids and grown ups enjoying them as well.  Familiar movies are ones such as:  The lion King, The Little Mermaid, and Cinderella.  Newer films not being released are The Haunted Mansion, Brother Bear, and just released the newer version of The Lion King."





Toon Disney is a cartoon network for smaller kids.

          Disney has many parks and resorts, including a cruise line.

"Disney World is the most famous, a magical place of four exciting Theme Parks and two incredible Water Parks. Its where you can let all your childhood dreams come true in a world as big as your imagination, where fantasy comes to life and vacations always end happily ever after.
Along with Disney world there is also many Disney Lands.  They are located in Paris, California and in Tokyo, Japan."



"Escape on a fantasy unlike anything you've imagined. A Disney Cruise Line® vacation. Here, adults find excitement and indulgence. Children have the time of their lives. And all make memories to last a lifetime. So start planning your Disney Cruise Line vacation today, and set sail on a dream
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Disney has many books, magazines, DVDs and Videos for Entertainment.

         

Disney also has two shows for entertainment called; Disney on Ice and Disney on Broadway!

              






        Disney has its own chain of stores and sells disney products.

The stores sells toys, books, videos, cloths, dolls, and tons of other things you could imagine a little kid wanting.

          
Toy Story Action Figures        Toy Story Monopoly          Rocking Simba             Princess Castle Tent
            $49.50                                  $15.50                          $128.50                                 $39.50




         Disney is not only in the United States it is world wide.
That is Shown by the parks and resorts that are all across the world.


Disney is a huge corporation in fact it is the # 2 media company in the world.  Disney is both vertical and horizontal integrated.  That is obvious by seeing how many different branches it has and it does manufacturing producing and marketing for their products.  They are also doing very well with their partner ship with ABC and ESPN it's only obvious that Disney will have a promising future just as thier past has been.