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...ratings, and it has started looking outside for help. Earlier this month, it made a production deal with HBO (owned by TIME's parent company, AOL Time Warner). The Monk "experiment," says ABC Entertainment president Susan Lyne, provides ABC with only slightly used programming on the cheap and benefits Disney, ABC's parent, which produces Monk. "Potentially," she says, "this is a great way of doing business." Monk's ABC debut drew more than 7 million viewers--pretty good for a summer rerun and huge by cable standards...
Leading the movement is Radio Disney, which focuses on tweens, the youngsters who, as Tim McCarthy, the network's president and general manager in New York City, puts it, are in that "overlooked period when you're not a little kid but you're not a teen." Just as boy-band pinups provide preadolescent girls with objects of affection before they're ready to date, Radio Disney offers a transitional experience for kids eager to explore the world of teen music but not ready for the hard-core rap and rock on other stations. The network's "lyrically screened" songs...
DIED. NORMAN (BUDDY) BAKER, 84, Oscar-nominated Disney composer who wrote scores for some 200 films, TV shows and Disney attractions; in Sherman Oaks, Calif. After leaving his post as musical director for Bob Hope, Baker joined Disney in 1954 and created the music for such TV series as Zorro, Swamp Fox and Daniel Boone as well as for such films as The Apple Dumpling Gang...
...country's 2.4 million surfers are female, and the percentage of women surfing every day has more than doubled in the past three years. "We've come a long way since Gidget," says Board-Trac managing director Marie Case. Hollywood has picked up on the trend; Disney's Lilo & Stitch and Universal's Blue Crush, both of which celebrate female surfing, may make riding the waves even more popular...
...have a couple of hit shows your ratings can improve," says Jeffrey Logsdon, analyst at Gerard Klauer Mattison. "But they have talked about how ABC was a priority the last couple of years and it's still not happening." For now, an Eisner toppling seems unlikely. Even the Disney family could be brought back into the Eisner camp quickly if the stock turns up. Disney family members reportedly borrowed against the stock when it was much higher and may face a margin call if it declines further. Fixing that issue would go a long way toward fixing their faith...