Disney Media Distribution (DMD) is responsible for The Walt Disney Company's branded and non-branded filmed entertainment distribution, now distributing more than 30,000 hours of content to over 1300 broadcasters across 240 territories worldwide.
History[]
The formerly named Buena Vista International Television was rebranded Disney-ABC International Television (DAIT) in September 2007 as part of The Walt Disney Company's larger efforts to focus on the Disney, ABC, and ESPN brands. Then, in 2011, was renamed Disney Media Distribution (DMD) as part of The Walt Disney Company's expansion of the Disney brand with pay TV channels, such as the Disney Channel, Disney XD, Disney Jr. (previously Playhouse Disney), Disney Cinemagic, Hungama TV, Radio Disney, and Video-On-Demand services.
As the largest international distributor of kids TV programming, Disney Media Distribution offers Disney-branded animated and live action series, Disney Channel Original Movies, pre-school, and Jetix programming. DAIT also distributes reality and scripted TV formats from ABC and ABC Studios.
Disney Media Distribution is part of Disney-ABC Television Group, a division of The Walt Disney Company, and has regional offices in Europe, Asia-Pacific, Middle-South America, and Canada.
Unlike the former Buena Vista International logos, which were placed (and still remain) on nearly all pre-2007 shows owned by Disney, DMD's logo is not seen at the end of programming distributed by them internationally.
Programming lineup distributed through DMD[]
Disney Media Distribution handles TV distribution of both movies and television shows around the world.
Films[]
The company licenses movies from the following subsidiaries:
- Walt Disney Pictures
- Touchstone Pictures
- Hollywood Pictures
- Lucasfilm (2012-present)
- Marvel Studios (2012-present)
- Blue Sky Studios (2019-2021)
- 20th Century Studios (2019-present)
- Searchlight Pictures (2019-present)
Television Programmes[]
The television distributor licenses programming from :
- ABC Signature (formerly Touchstone Television, then ABC Studios and ABC Signature Studios)
- ABC News, along with the Annual Academy Awards
- Disney-ABC Domestic Television
- ESPN
- Walt Disney Television
- Walt Disney Television International (including Buena Vista Productions)
- BVS Entertainment (2002-present)
- Disney Television Animation (2003-present)
- It's a Laugh Productions (2003-present)
- Marvel Entertainment (except some TV productions) (2010-present)
- National Geographic (2019-present)
- FX Productions (2019-present)
- 20th Television (formerly 20th Century Fox Television) (2019-present)
- Touchstone Television (formerly Fox 21 Television Studios) (2019-present)
Former libraries distributed through DMD[]
There are also instances when Disney formerly distributed the libraries from another company.
- DIC Entertainment (1993-2000, became self-distributed when Disney sold off DIC and opened up their own international sales office)
- Miramax Films (until 2010, self-distributes their own library after being sold off)
- Dimension Films
- Most of the Jetix Europe original programmes (2004-2009)
- DreamWorks (2011-2016, films distributed through the Touchstone deal only, excluding MENA regions)
- Pathé UK (2019-2020, films distributed through the 20th Century Studios deal in UK only)
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