ABC

“It would be 13 years before we faced another 24 hour news channel.”

“Under Burke's oversight, the staff that oversaw ABC's TV station group dropped from 60 to eight people. The margin gap was closed in just two years. So in two years, they brought ABC's margins from 30% to over 50.”

“So he buys ABC network for nearly 3.5 billion dollars with financing from his friend, Warren Buffett. The ABC deal was the largest non oil and gas transaction in business history to that point.”

“The reason the deadline can't move is because they, it had to come live on July 17th and not a day later because the partnership agreement that he had with ABC was that the parks opening would also be in conjunction with the most ambitious live television broa…”

“The reason I say it's maybe the greatest product lunch of all time, because it's eight months of one of the highest rated television shows that functions when you watch them as a giant ad for Disneyland”

“ABC would invest a half a million dollars outright in the park. Then they have to purchase a weekly hour-long television program, and for that, think about it, Disney got paid to advertise his park. That's the way you think about it. They're paying him 50,000 …”