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Walt Disney sells 23.7 million TV shows and 2 million movies via Apple iTunes Store
Wednesday, May 09, 2007 - 09:06 AM EDT

Apple StoreThe Walt Disney Co. yesterday after market close posted net profit for Q2 07 of $931 million, or 44 cents per share, compared with $733 million, or 37 cents per share, compared to the previous year.

Revenue was up to $8.07 billion from $8.03 billion a year ago.

Disney President and CEO, Bob Iger, said during the conference call with analysts, “We continue to view the broadband-enabled internet as an important entertainment medium, and our creative and technological investments in Disney, ESPN, ABC.com are designed with that premise in mind."

Iger reported that Disney has so far sold 23.7 million TV shows and 2 million movies via Apple's iTunes Store.

Disney's conference call (Windows Media Player or Real Player required) is available here.

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May 09, 07 - 09:19 am Comment from: Ninja252

still work needs to be done at Disney if we can't get them to use Quicktime wink

May 09, 07 - 09:26 am Comment from: Fun Fun Fun

I only use WMP when I absolutely have to, and I don't even have Real Player installed.

May 09, 07 - 09:28 am Comment from: Mr. Peabody

@Fun Fun Fun

Ditto.

May 09, 07 - 09:31 am Comment from: jeric

to think that stevie j is the largest shareholder of disney,selling millions of movies to itunes and could not provide quicktime streaming

May 09, 07 - 09:37 am Comment from: Harry

yeah .. and could not provide QT streaming !

May 09, 07 - 09:38 am Comment from: me

Just some fun numbers (clearly approximate)

Disney made $8,070 Million

Apple sold $67M of Disney product($47M & $20M)

At a wholesale price of 50%, Disney sold $33.5M worth of product through iTunes.

$33.5M in sales is 0.4% of Disney's $8B revenues.

May 09, 07 - 09:48 am Comment from: maccam

@me

pays Iger's salary, though.

May 09, 07 - 10:12 am Comment from: Whatever

@Mr. Peabody

Ditto.

May 09, 07 - 10:28 am Comment from: twilightmoon@mac.com

me..

more interesting would be 2 figures (which we don't and likely won't have):

1. What % of Disney's overall media revenues (from film, TV etc) does iTS represent?

2. How does the income from iTS compare to other forms of media income in terms of revenue vs profit. In other words what % of the iTS money going to Disney is actual after expensive profit compared to other media revenues?

You're comparing iTS revenues to Disney's total corporate revenue, which might not be the best way to look at it, just my opinion.

May 09, 07 - 10:33 am Comment from: twilightmoon@mac.com

Also... it might be worth noting if Disney's income from iTS is growing (I assume it is) and how fast? Especially compared to other forms of media revenue.

May 09, 07 - 11:01 am Comment from: David

What is real player? (smirk)

May 09, 07 - 11:22 am Comment from: ../.

: "1. What % of Disney's overall media revenues (from film, TV etc) does iTS represent?"

Even more meaningful is the % of Disney's revenues from content represented by iTunes Store. iTS represents only a small number of shows from Disney owned companies. The more Disney commits to use iTS for distribution (the more content they offer), the bigger revenue they can generate from iTS.

May 09, 07 - 12:57 pm Comment from: Tommy Boy

When you consider that 23.7 million people watched Grey's Anatomy last week, selling that amount of TV shows on iTunes isn't that impressive.

I would like to know how that iTunes number compares with the number of people who have watched the shows for "free" on ABC.com

May 09, 07 - 01:40 pm Comment from: @me

Disney made $8,070 Million

What is that? Eight thousand 70 million?

Eight million, 70 thousand?

Eight thousand million and 70?

May 09, 07 - 02:55 pm Comment from: Twisted Mac Freak

Bu the bad news is that 98% of the TV show sales were Hannah Montana episodes.

May 09, 07 - 07:51 pm Comment from: radiomoscow

you realise that free flip4mac lets u watch wmv's with quicktime
smile~

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