Hasta La Creative!

The new leader of the streaming service would be Mike Hopkins, a veteran of Fox Networks with a focus on distribution as opposed to creating new content.

Fusion, the new network that is a joint venture of Disney and Univision, named a chief, and Telemundo said its president, Emilio Romano, was stepping down.

Broadcast networks have been challenged by a continuing decline in ratings, so marketing executives have left no stone unturned in the pursuit of promotional ideas.

For the first time in nine years, Disney will not release its annual Pixar movie. The gap has led to a flurry of new opening dates for Disney movies.

Disney sold 294,000 starter kit units of the game in August, normally a slow sales month for video games.

Ticket revenue in North America totaled $4.71 billion, up 10.2 percent from last summer, but a competition glut hurt films that could have been hits in a thinner field.

Ms. Burns helped to lead the movement for public access to cable television and started a New York University program to foster Internet wizards.

ESPN had been working with PBS on a film about head injuries in the National Football League, whose games are shown on the sports network and represent a cherished source of revenue.

The agreement is believed to be the first of its kind between a major programmer and any of the technology giants that are trying to disrupt traditional modes of TV delivery.

Of 101 films released by the six major studios in 2012, Glaad said only 14 of them contained characters that were identified as lesbian, gay or bisexual, and none that were were transgender.