MIPCOM Honor For Disney’s Anne Sweeney

COMMENTS (3)

• Anne Sweeney is a sharp lady from her time at Dreamworks through her rise at ABC/Disney.

  Congrats, Anne!

  Comment by tom — Thursday July 28, 2011 @ 4:48pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Shame on Anne for destroying ABC daytime and primetime.

  Comment by Val — Sunday August 21, 2011 @ 10:25pm PDT  Reply to this post

• We, as in our family and friends are continuing our boycotting of ALL THINGS ABC and Disney for their having canceled “One Life to Live” and “All My Children.”

  In response to these cancellation policy decisions, decisions made by Disney’s Robert Iger and ABC’s Anne Sweeney and Brian Frons, ABC is in some cases witnessing half of the Daytime audience fan base flee its network programming entirely, as some acutely perceptive observers many months ago had well predicted would be the tragic outcome.

  In an honorable business culture, these three individuals would have already committed a form of corporate “hari kari” for having offended and injured as many parties as they have through their rank incompetence, poor business decision making, and despicable treatment of their customers/loyal viewers of many decades duration.

  And, moreover, for their manifest classless crude abuse, deception, and disrespect they rained on the ever talented casts and crews of “One Life to Live” and “All My Children.” Iger, Frons, and Sweeney are disgraces to the honorable traditions that have historically prevailed in the American entertainment and broadcasting industries, and the latter Ms. Sweeney in having been complicit to the extreme in Mr. Frons’ notorious in the public record, chronic repeated ageist and sexist conduct, is a disgrace to the American womens movement that tragically paved the opportunity for her; powerfully witness her wrecking operations in a Bain Capital-like looting fashion of a great American storytelling genre birthed by writer Agnes Nixon that sustained primetime programming on this country’s networks for decades. Who was it that paid for “Kojak” among many others? It was certainly not the likes of the train wrecking operations of Iger, Sweeney and Frons, please.

  Then, the three of them, Iger, Sweeney and Frons went on to replace such iconic American classics as “One Life to Live” and All My Children” (with their respective millions of LOYAL daytime viewers) with junk reality unscripted programming a la “The Spew” and “The Revulsion” in further debasing the American contemporary television medium. Shame on the three of them and let damn be done! ABC/Disney: Release the rights now being held “hostage” to those shows and allow another network or cable provider to bring these shows back to their audiences. For once, do the right thing and cease your contemptuous conduct toward your customer base that is inimical to every sound business practice. Begin, then, to advertise ABC in a positive public light.

  Comment by Dr. Donald G. Boudreau — Friday February 24, 2012 @ 8:52pm PST  Reply to this post