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E! ENTERTAINMENT TELEVISION E! now reaches 59 million U.S. cable subscribers and direct broadcast satellite subscribers. E!-branded programming reaches 400 million homes in over 120 countries worldwide. The success of True Hollywood Stories, Mysteries & Scandals and Fashion Emergency have contributed to ratings growth. E!’s first spin-off network, “style.”, devoted to the worlds of design, fashion and decorating, currently reaches seven million homes. THE HISTORY CHANNEL The History Channel, “where the past comes alive,” now reaches more than 61 million homes. Last year, The History Channel received the prestigious Governor’s Award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for the network’s “Save Our History” campaign dedicated to historic preservation. SOAPNET SoapNet, the 24-hour soap opera channel, will launch on January 24, 2000. SoapNet will offer a wide variety of soap opera programming, featuring same-day telecasts of the toprated ABC Daytime series All My Children, General Hospital, One Life to Live and Port Charles. The network will also include the popular Ryan’s Hope, as well as serial dramas such as Knots Landing, Falcon Crest, Hotel and The Colbys, in addition to an original soap news show, Soap Center. SoapNet will allow the company to repurpose and optimize ABC’s owned daytime franchises in a way that other networks are unable to match. In Disney Channel’s original series The Jersey, a tired old football jersey is passed down to Nick (Michael Galeota) from his deceased grandfather, but this is much more than your ordinary jersey...it’s a magical portal into the world of sports and the lives of such athletes as WNBA star Lisa Leslie. Toon Disney, the 24-hour all-animated cable network, now reaches 14 million homes. style. channel, the first spin-off from E! Entertainment Television, covers the worlds of fashion and design. Disney’s PB&J Otter, a Disney Channel original series for preschoolers, saw strong ratings gains last year. SoapNet, the 24-hour soap opera channel, launches January 24, 2000. Annie Potts and Lorraine Toussaint star in the critically acclaimed Lifetime Television original series, Any Day Now. PUBLISHING
HYPERION Hyperion, Disney’s trade publishing division, includes ESPN Books, Talk/Miramax Books, ABC Daytime Press and Hyperion East imprints. Best-selling titles in 1999 included Mother of Pearl by Melinda Haynes, Life Strategies by Phillip McGraw, The Hungry Ocean by Linda Greenlaw and Bill Cosby’s Congratulations! Now What? Hyperion plans a number of major releases in the year ahead, including Natural Blonde, a memoir from America’s premiere gossip columnist, Liz Smith; Good Morning America’s Cut The Calories Cookbook; and Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health by Pulitzer Prize-winner Laurie Garrett.
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