Is Disney Planning on Having STAR WARS and MARVEL TV Channels?
It sounds like somewhere down the road we’ll have a couple cool new channels to browse through when we're looking for something to watch. Disney CEO Bob Iger was on an investors call last week, and he casually brought up the prospect of creating TV channels for both Star Wars and Marvel. As many of you probably already know, Disney has a lot of channels, such as ESPN, ABC, Disney, Disney XD, and Disney Jr. to name a few. Adding a couple more to the mix isn't going to hurt.
Daily Finance had the quote from Iger, which reads,
“We have said that with these channels and these brands — ESPN, ABC, Disney, maybe even down the road something related to Star Wars and Marvel — we do have an ability as a company to take product, specifically filmed entertainment, television, movies, directly to consumers.”
Iger didn’t go into any details on what the plans might be for these channels, but they would obviously revolve around Star Wars and Marvel stuff. The channels would also most likely provide a mix of already existing movie and TV show content with new and original content that could be developed specifically for each channel.
There's obviously a high demand for these two properties, so it makes sense that Disney would want to expand on them and give them TV channels of their own.
Via: ScreenCrush