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The popularity of the ABC.com player adds to the Company’s considerable success in monetizing its biggest hits in ancillary markets as well as nontraditional platforms. ABC’s megahits Lost, Desperate Housewives and Grey’s Anatomy are all produced by Touchstone Television, giving the Company ownership of these series. This ownership includes the rights to showcase programs on multiple platforms, creating the flexibility to more fully exploit this valuable content. For example, fans can now follow Lost on ABC, on iTunes, on ABC.com, on podcasts and video podcasts and on DVD, depending on their schedule and viewing preferences.

The only series featured on ABC.com during the new fall season that was not produced by Touchstone was The Nine. ABC became the first network to strike a deal to share digital rights with another studio in a way that gives both parties the potential to monetize the content on new platforms.

Touchstone Television is now a major source of high quality content for ABC. The studio developed and produced eight new primetime series across two networks for the new season, including Ugly Betty, Six Degrees, Brothers & Sisters, Day Break, The Knights of Prosperity, In Case of Emergency and October Road for ABC.

The success of Touchstone Television fuels more than ABC’s fall line-up; it also supplies Buena Vista International Television (BVITV) with quality content to export around the world. Responsible for the Company’s branded and non-branded international program distribution, BVITV distributes television and new media content to broadcasters, operators and platforms across 240 territories worldwide, licensing programming from Touchstone Television, ABC News, Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone Pictures and Miramax Films, as well as Disney Channel Original Movies and other properties from the Company’s kids’ television portfolio.