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ABC Sees Success in iPad App

Ethan Smith, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 14, 2010 at 8:00 am PT

ABC is the only television network so far to offer an application for watching its shows free–with ads–on Apple Inc.’s new iPad tablet computer, and it says its business model is proving fruitful. The network said that in the 10 days since the iPad’s debut, its TV-show watching app has been downloaded 205,000 times, giving the Walt Disney Co. unit a presence on nearly half the 450,000 devices that Apple says it has sold.

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CES: Live Blogging With Disney/ABC's Anne Sweeney

Tiernan Ray, Blogger, Barron's, Tech Trader Daily in News on January 9, 2009 at 4:55 am PT

I’m back at the Las Vegas Hilton Theater, where Anne Sweeney, head of Disney’s ABC Television networks is about to take to the stage at the Consumer Electronics Show. Consumer Electronics Association head Gary Shapiro comes on stage to introduce Sweeney. He plays a video showing snippets of ABC shows (“Ugly Betty,” etc.)