The Walt Disney Company’s EMEA TV distribution arm, Disney-ABC ESPN Television, has renewed its multi-year volume agreement with ERT, Greece’s top public TV broadcaster. The deal will increase ERT’s programming from Disney Channel, The Walt Disney Studios and ABC Studios, and also includes a selection of movies from Walt Disney Pictures, Disney/Pixar, Touchstone Pictures and Miramax Films.
‘We are committed to the future success of The Walt Disney Company in Greece, working closely with our partners across Disney’s integrated businesses to foster growth in our key brands and franchise properties,’ comments Tom Toumazis, exec VP and managing director of Disney-ABC-ESPN Television EMEA and Canada. ‘This new TV agreement is an important step in this ambition, in such a fast-developing, dynamic market.’
In addition to movies such as Enchanted and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, ERT channels will get Playhouse Disney series including My Friends Tigger & Pooh, the Disney Channel original movie Camp Rock and such hit Disney Channel original series as Hannah Montana. Other live-action fare includes additional seasons of ABC’s Desperate Housewives, Lost, Criminal Minds and Ghost Whisperer.
