Disney Creative Executive Heads to Digital Entertainment Network; Former Creative Affairs Director at Touchstone TV To Develop Content For Web's Leading Gen Y Online Network.SANTA MONICA Santa Monica (săn`tə mŏn`ĭkə), city (1990 pop. 86,905), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1886. Tourism and retailing are important, and the city has motion-picture, biotechnology, and software industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 1, 1999-- Morgan Wandell, Director of Creative Affairs at the Touchstone TV division of Buena Vista TV Group, has ankled his post to join Internet media start-up Digital Entertainment Network (DEN(TM)). DEN is a privately held interactive online network that targets Generation Y through original entertainment, culture programming and e-commerce opportunities. The move reunites Wandell with former Walt Disney Noun 1. Walt Disney - United States film maker who pioneered animated cartoons and created such characters as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck; founded Disneyland (1901-1966) Disney, Walter Elias Disney TV President David Neuman, who joined DEN as president in July of 1998. In his new role, Wandell will collaborate with agents, writers and directors to develop new and existing creative content for DEN. He will also acquire rights to movies, television shows, books and other intellectual properties to be developed as interactive media on DEN. "Morgan has been a rising superstar in the television industry and understands the creative potential of the Internet," said Neuman. "I had the good fortune of working with Morgan twice before; at Channel One, where he was our best field producer, and later at Disney, where he was the creative executive assigned to `Home Improvement.' "He's got excellent relationships with all the agencies and a great eye for talent. In my opinion, he is the absolute best and brightest of the newest generation of media executives, and I'm thrilled that he's joined the DEN team." Wandell reports directly to Neuman. "The Internet allows us to develop and showcase a new kind of entertainment experience and I'm thrilled to be doing it at DEN," said Wandell, who starts on Monday, Sept. 13th and will office out of DEN's Santa Monica production center. "I think generation Y is tired of passive forms of entertainment like network TV and is starving for a more interactive experience," Wandell continued. Wandell will also be reunited "Reunited" was a #1 hit in the United States in 1979 by the Washington, D.C.-based group Peaches & Herb. Preceded by "Heart of Glass" by Blondie Billboard Hot 100 number one single May 5 1979 Succeeded by "Hot Stuff" by Donna Summer with former Walt Disney Imagineering Sr. V.P. Eddie Sotto, a renaissance creative who developed several projects with Wandell at Touchstone TV. Sotto, a 13-year Imagineering veteran, the division of Disney that builds its theme parks, joined DEN last week. At Touchstone TV, Wandell shepherded two original programs that are currently in production skewed skewed curve of a usually unimodal distribution with one tail drawn out more than the other and the median will lie above or below the mean. skewed Epidemiology adjective Referring to an asymmetrical distribution of a population or of data to 14 - 24 year old viewers. The first is a one hour dramedy about the politics of being in high school titled "Popular" for which the WB has ordered 13 episodes. The second, a half-hour single camera show about the neurosis neurosis, in psychiatry, a broad category of psychological disturbance, encompassing various mild forms of mental disorder. Until fairly recently, the term neurosis was broadly employed in contrast with psychosis, which denoted much more severe, debilitating mental of Generation Y dubbed "Brutally Normal" is scheduled as a midseason replacement In North American Television a midseason replacement is a television show that premieres in the second half of a television season usually between January and April. Midseason replacements usually take place after a show that was in the fall schedule was canceled or put on hiatus. with an eight episode order, also for the WB. During his tenure at Disney, Wandell also oversaw current programs including "Home Improvement", "The PJ's", "Boy Meets World", "Unhappily Ever After Unhappily Ever After (often shortened to Unhappily... in promotional advertisements) was an American sitcom that aired for 100 episodes on The WB network from January 11, 1995 to May 23, 1999, for a total of four and a half seasons. ", and "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids". Prior to his stint at Touchstone TV, Wandell was a field producer for ABC news
ABC News is a division of American television and radio network ABC, owned by The Walt Disney Company. Its current president is David Westin. , where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He got his start in news as a segment producer for Channel One, where he did in depth news features and investigative reports for the cablecaster, including a segment on child labor child labor, use of the young as workers in factories, farms, and mines. Child labor was first recognized as a social problem with the introduction of the factory system in late 18th-century Great Britain. atrocities in Pakistan. Wandell graduated from Claremont College in 1993 with honors. Digital Entertainment Network Inc. (DEN(TM)) is the Internet entertainment network that creates original youth culture programming and e-commerce opportunities of, by and for Generation Y consumers. As a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. , DEN has built the technical infrastructure and assembled the creative expertise to empower and entertain 14 to 24 year olds on the web and revolutionize their unique culture worldwide. DEN's studios are based in Santa Monica, Calif. For more information, visit the DEN site at www.den.net. |
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