List of assets owned by the Walt Disney Company facts for kids

This is a list of assets currently or formerly owned by the Walt Disney Company, unless otherwise indicated.

As of August 2023, Disney is organized into three main segments: Disney Entertainment which includes the company's film and TV assets as well as streaming; ESPN (including ESPN+); and Disney Experiences.

Corporate

Disney Entertainment

Walt Disney Studios

Film studios

Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

Disney Theatrical Group

Disney Music Group

Disney Studio Services

Disney General Entertainment Content

List of units based on current organizational structure:

A&E Networks

50% equity holding; joint venture with Hearst Corporation

Disney Streaming

Disney Platform Distribution

International Network Brands

The Walt Disney Company Europe, Middle East and Africa

Quick facts for kids
The Walt Disney Company EMEA

Trade name	Disney Co. Ltd.
Type	Division
Founded	1954; 71 years ago (1954)
Headquarters	3 Queen Caroline Street, Hammersmith, London W6 9PE , United Kingdom
Area served	Europe Middle East Africa
Key people	Jan Koeppen (president)
Parent	The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company Europe, Middle East & Africa (doing business as The Walt Disney Company Limited) is the largest international division of the Walt Disney Company, serving the EMEA. Its headquarters are located at 3 Queen Caroline Street, Hammersmith, West London, and have most of its locations, mostly in Europe.

The Walt Disney Company Latin America

The Walt Disney Company Asia Pacific

Disney Experiences

Disney Consumer Products

Disney Consumer Products, Inc. encompasses Disney Store, Disney Games, Disney Publishing, and Disney Licensing (including Disney Baby).

Disney retail

Disney games and interactive experiences

DCPI content

Disney Publishing Worldwide

Parks and resorts

Disneyland Resort

Walt Disney World Resort

Lake Buena Vista, Florida, United States

Disney Parks International

Disneyland International, oversees Disney's interest in Tokyo Disney Resort. The WDC has taken full ownership of Euro Disneyland, opened on April 12, 1992, as the Euro Disney Resort, located in Marne-la-Vallée, near Paris, France. Disney owns 48% of Hong Kong International Theme Parks, while the Government of Hong Kong owns 52% of the shares.

Disney Signature Experiences

ESPN Inc.

80% equity holding; 20% owned by Hearst Corporation

• ESPN
• ESPN2
• ESPN3
• ESPN+
• ESPN on ABC
• ESPN International
• ESPNews
• ESPN Deportes
• ESPN Films
• ESPNU
• ESPN Now
• ESPN PPV
• ESPN Events
• ESPN Radio
• ESPN Books
• ESPN.com
• Andscape
• ESPN Home Entertainment
• ESPN Outdoors
• ESPN Digital Center
• ESPN BET (joint venture with Penn Entertainment)
• ESPY Award
• ACC Network
• Longhorn Network
• SEC Network
• Untitled ESPN App (coming in late 2024, joint venture with Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery)

Shared services

These are services shared between Disney Entertainment and ESPN segments

• Product and Technology
• Disney Platform Distribution
• Disney Advertising Sales
  • Disney CreativeWorks
  • Disney XP
  • Project Elevate

Others

• BVCC, Inc. (Buena Vista Construction Company) Disney World general contractor
• Cover Concepts, Inc.
• Disney Accelerator
• Disney Character Voices International
• Disney Institute, the professional development and external training arm
• Disney Rewards,Disney Credit Card service by Chase Bank
  • Disney Credit Card Services, Inc.
• Disney Programs
  • Disney College Program
  • Disney International Programs
  • Disney Alumni Association
• Disney Legends
  • Golden Pass
• Disney University
• Disney Worldwide Outreach Program
• Epic Games (10%)
• Marvel Characters, Inc.
• Marvel New Media
• Marvel Entertainment International Limited (United Kingdom)
• Marvel Internet Productions LLC (Delaware)
• Marvel Property, Inc. (Delaware)
• Marvel International Character Holdings LLC (Delaware)
• MRV, Inc. (Delaware)
• Marvel Games
• Marvel Toys Limited (Hong Kong)
• MVL International C.V. (The Netherlands)
• Marvel Characters B.V. (The Netherlands)
• Marvel Worldwide, Inc.
  • Marvel Comics
    • Marvel Custom Solutions, customized comic books
    • Marvel Press
    • Marvel Unlimited
• Marvel Toys
• Marvel Universe
  • Marvel Toys Limited (Hong Kong)
• National Geographic Partners (73% majority holding; 27% owned by the National Geographic Society)
• Silver Creek Pictures, Inc.
• Sphero (June 2015) TWDC purchased a stake in the robotic toys company then approached them about building BB-8
• Pixar RenderMan
• Presto

Property holding companies

Financial

• Arvida Disney Financial Services Inc.
  • Arvida Real Estate Capital Inc., a commercial real estate investment banking subsidiary to arrange financing for commercial, industrial and retail projects

Venture capital

Steamboat Ventures: ownership positions not revealed

Chinese holdings

Unsorted

Partial assets

• Inspector Gadget – Disney formerly owned the franchise as a whole during their limited partnership of DIC Entertainment from 1996 from 2000, before they sold DIC back to Andy Heyward. Disney also held international distribution to the original series outside North America through Jetix Europe after their acquisition of Fox Family Worldwide in 2001, before selling it, alongside 20 other DIC-owned programmes back to DIC in March 2006. Disney continues to hold the live-action film rights to the franchise through Walt Disney Pictures.
• Talking Friends – Franchise holder Outfit7 Entertainment signed an exclusive deal with Disney in 2012 that allowed the company to produce and distribute certain media for the franchise. Among the media created as part of the limited license included a web-series from Disney Interactive, two songs from Walt Disney Records, a Disney Create - Photo Mashup game that was available on disney.go.com/create, as well as a concert event featuring Radio Disney DJs to promote the Talking Friends Superstars toyline. The deal, however, did not include the original apps, characters, nor merchandising rights.

Former assets

Dormant or shuttered

The following companies or units are subsidiaries of Disney that are either no longer active or have been absorbed into another part of the company.

• 20th Digital Studio - dissolved on April 26, 2023
• ABC Kids: Replaced by Litton's Weekend Adventure.
• Americast - Telephone digital TV joint venture
• Anaheim Sports, Inc. - Formerly Disney Sports Enterprises, Inc.
• Arena Football League - ESPN bought a minority share of the league in December 2006; the league ceased operations in July 2009. The AFL was revived in 2010, but is a separate legal entity from the original, with no Disney ownership.
• Avalanche Software - Closed in May 2016 and re-opened and acquired by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment in January 2017.
• Asianet Star Communications
• Babble
• Bindass Play - Closed in 2017
• Black Rock Studio - formerly known as Climax Racing; acquired by Disney Interactive Studios (formerly Buena Vista Games) on September 28, 2006; closed on June 30, 2011.
• Blip Networks, Inc.: Acquired by Maker Studios (Now Disney Digital Network) in August 2013,. Shut down in August 2015.
• Blue Sky Studios - closed on April 10, 2021
• Bonnie View Productions, Ltd.: Production company for Crusaders, a syndicated news magazine show
• Buena Vista Visual Effects
• BT Sport ESPN - License to use ESPN brand revoked, renamed BT Sport
• Black20
• BVS Entertainment (formerly Saban Entertainment): Purchased from News Corporation and Haim Saban in 2001 and renamed in 2002.
  • SIP Animation (formerly Saban International Paris): Disney acquired Saban's 49.6% minority stake in 2001 and renamed the company in 2002. All remaining shares were transferred to BVS Entertainment in 2012, and SIP was shut down completely in October 2023, after being dormant since 2009. Trademark and intellectual property transactions were handled by BVS International N.V. after 2002.
  • Libra Pictures / Libra Home Entertainment: Saban's adult-oriented television/direct-to-video film production unit. The trademark rights were taken over by Disney and its operations were terminated in 2001.
  • Jetix Europe, N.V. (formerly Fox Kids Europe): 73% acquired with Fox Family Worldwide, Inc., full ownership obtained in 2009; ran 13 Jetix channels
    • GXT: Italian channel for older teens sold in the management buyout of Jetix Italy, closed in late 2014.
    • K-2: Syndicated Italian block also sold in the management buyout of Jetix Italy.
    • Jetix Consumer Products: Formerly Saban Consumer Products and Active Licensing Europe
    • Jetix España S.L.: Joint venture with Sogecable S.A. to operate Jetix Spain
    • Jetix Play: A pay TV channel broadcasting in Eastern Europe, rebranded as Playhouse Disney in 2010 and Disney Junior in 2011.
    • Jetix Poland Limited: Minority owner; a subsidiary of United Pan-Europe Communications N.V.
    • TV10 B.V.: Joint venture with SBS Broadcasting B.V. operating the Dutch Jetix channel
• Cal Publishing: Cal Publishing was a subsidiary created by Disney to acquire the assets of CrossGen. After the acquisition, both companies were folded into Disney Publishing Worldwide. Disney subsidiary Marvel Comics has since tried to revive CrossGen as an imprint.
• Canasa Trading Corp.
• Caravan Pictures
• Channel [V] - Closed in 2021
• Disney Circle 7 Animation
• Club Penguin - Closed on March 30, 2017
• Club Penguin Island - Closed on December 20, 2018
• Club Disney: Creation of Disney Regional Entertainment, Club Disney had 5 locations built in the U.S. All 5 locations were closed in November 1999.
• Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida, Inc.
• Das Vierte
• Disney Auctions
• Disney Cinemagic
• Disney Comics
• Disney Deluxe, streaming service which offered Disney, Marvel, Pixar, and Star Wars branded content in Japan.
• Disney Development Company: Construct arm
• Disney Digital Network
  • Revelmode: Sub-network of Maker Studios/Disney Digital Network. Shut down after PewDiePie was dropped because of anti-semitic jokes made on his channel.
• Disney Interactive Studios - Closed in 2016
• DisneyLife, streaming service which offered some Disney branded content to subscriber's outside the US before Disney Plus.
• Disney Movie Club, a physical media distributor closed in Canada on October 15, 2023 and in the United States on May 20, 2024
• Disney Movie Insiders - Closed on September 1, 2023
• Disney Regional Entertainment: Ran Disney Quest and the ESPN Zone Restaurant/entertainment chains. The division was closed in June 2010. Two ESPN Zones remain operating, but now as local franchises.
• Disney TeleVentures, Inc.: Americast telco venture programming and technical support
• Disney Television Studios Marketing, division group dissolved on April 25, 2023.
• Disney Television Studios First-Run Syndication, division group dissolved on April 25, 2023.
• Disney Television and Telecommunications, division group (not to be confused with Walt Disney Television production division) eliminated after Disney-CC/ABC merger
• Disneytoon Studios
• Disney Networks Group Asia Pacific - Closed in 2023
• Dream Quest Images: Merged with Disney Features Animation computer group to form The Secret Lab
• DreamWorks II Distribution Co. LLC, film rights acquired from DreamWorks and Reliance.'
• DreamWorks Television (1994-2002): Joint venture of CC/ABC with DreamWorks which was dissolved at the end of the seven-year agreement
• ESPN Classic - closed in 2023
• ESPN The Magazine - dissolved in September 2019
• ESPN Player - shut down on August 18, 2023, in all international markets.
• Faded Denim Productions Ltd.: Defunct production company
• Fall Line Studios
• Fidelity Television, Inc.: owned KCAL-TV
  • KHJ-TV, Inc.
• Fogbank Entertainment - shut down in 2020
• Fox App - discontinued on December 31, 2020
• Fox (international) - assets either closed or dissolved into Star Channel or FX; closed in 2024
• Fox 2000 Pictures - dissolved on May 14, 2021
• Fox 21 Television Studios - dissolved into Touchstone Television, later Walt Disney Television
• Fox Consumer Products - folded into Disney Consumer Products in 2020
• Fox Life - Closed in 2024
• Fox Comedy - Closed in 2024
• Fox Crime - Closed in 2024
• Fox Movies - Closed in 2024
• Fox Family Movies - Closed in 2021 in Southeast Asia and in 2022 in the Middle East
• Fox Action Movies - Closed in 2021 in Southeast Asia and in 2024 in the Middle East and replaced by Star Action
• Fox Networks Group - Closed in 2024
• Fox-Paramount Home Entertainment (A Nordic joint venture with Paramount Home Entertainment) - Closed in 2019
• Fox Pathé Europa (French joint venture with Pathé and EuropaCorp)
• Fox Research Library
• Fox Sports International - assets either closed or dissolved into ESPN; closed in 2024
• Fox VFX Lab - Closed in 2019
• Fox Music - Merged with Hollywood Records in 2020
• FoxNext - Closed in 2020
• Fox+ - Closed in 2022
• FX+ - Closed on August 21, 2019
• Harvest Groves, Inc.: Merged
• Hollywood Basic: Sub-label of Hollywood Records that released rap music (including music by DJ Shadow and Organized Konfusion). The label was discontinued in the mid-1990s.
• Hollywood Pictures: Film label of The Walt Disney Studios created in 1989 and shuttered in 2007.
• Hollywood Pictures Music: Label of Disney Music Publishing that distributed songs from Hollywood Pictures' titles.
• Hotstar - renamed to Disney+ Hotstar in 2020. Still operated in Singapore, Canada, and the United Kingdom.
• ImageMovers Digital: Closed in 2011 after the abysmal opening of Mars Needs Moms.
• Infoseek Corporation: Acquired by Disney in 1998 and merged into Disney's GO Network. The Infoseek name is no longer in use.
• Jumbo Pictures: Acquired by Disney in 1996, Jumbo Pictures produced Doug, 101 Dalmatians: The Series, and PB&J Otter for Disney. The company was folded into Walt Disney Television Animation
• Jetix Animation Concepts: Folded into Walt Disney Television Animation in 2009.
• Junction Point Studios
• Kingdom Comics: The Kingdom Comics unit's creatives/executives moved its deal to an independent Monsterfoot Production.
• Lake Buena Vista Communities, Inc.
• LAPTV
• Lucasfilm Animation Singapore and VFX Studio - Closed in 2023
• Lyric Street Records: Record label specializing in country music
• Malibu Comics
• Mammoth Records: Independent record label acquired by Disney in 1997
• Marvel Entertainment - Closed on March 29, 2023
• Marvel Animation (AKA Marvel Family Entertainment)
  • Marvel Animation Studios: Part of Marvel Animation from 2012 until 2020
• MLG Productions 1 – MLG Productions 8: (Marvel's joint venture with Lionsgate) operationally defunct as the agreed-upon number of DTV movies were finished.
• Nat Geo App - discontinued on December 31, 2019
• Nat Geo Kids Abu Dhabi - Closed on January 1, 2020
• Nat Geo Kids - Closed on April 1, 2022
• Nat Geo Music - Closed in 2017
• NBA Experience - Closed in 2021
• Pixar Canada: Opened in 2010, Closed in 2013.
• Playdom
• Propaganda Games: Shuttered in January 2011 after the development of Tron: Evolution was completed.
• Radio Disney Networks
  • Radio Disney
  • Radio Disney Country
  • Radio Disney Junior
  • Radio Disney Music Awards
• Ranch and Grove Holding Corp.: Merged
• The Secret Lab: Formed from Dream Quest Images & Walt Disney Features Animation computer group, closed in 2002
• Skellington Productions, Inc.: Production company formed between Walt Disney Feature Animation and filmmakers Tim Burton and Henry Selick
• Soapnet: DATG cable channel that closed on December 31, 2013
• Sony ESPN (50%, joint-venture with Sony) - Closed in 2020
• Star+ - Merged with Disney+ in Latin America on June 26, 2024
• Star Chinese Channel - Closed on December 31, 2023
• Star Chinese Movies - Closed on December 31, 2023
• Star Chinese Movies Legend - Closed on September 30, 2021
• Star Entertainment Channel - Closed on December 31, 2023
• Star Life - Closed on March 31, 2022
• Star Movies HD - Closed on December 31, 2023
• Star Movies Gold - Closed on December 31, 2023
• Star Premium - Closed on February 1, 2022 in Latin America and on March 31, 2022 in Brazil
• Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser - Closed on September 30, 2023
• Starwave: Starwave was merged with Infoseek and acquired by Disney in 1998 to form GO Network. Starwave no longer operates as a stand-alone business. The label was recently resurrected to form Disney's Starwave Mobile which licenses content from third-party companies for cell phone content.
• Star World India - Closed on March 15, 2023
• Star World Premiere - Closed on March 15, 2023
• Star World Taiwan - Closed on December 31, 2023
• Tapulous
• Togetherville: Acquired in February 2011. Discontinued in March 2012.
• Toontown Online: Servers were closed on September 19, 2013.
• Touchstone Pictures: it was inactive in 2016. The label still used in-home media distribution of catalog titles.
• Touchstone Television: Folded into 20th Television in 2020.
• Touchwood Pacific Partner 1, Inc. (not the limited partnership itself)
• Toysmart.com: Controlling interest
• Take180
• UTV Software Communications - Merged with Star India in 2020
  • UTV Communications (USA) LLC
  • UTV Motion Pictures - Closed in 2017
  • UTV Action - Closed on March 15, 2023
  • UTV Movies - Closed on March 15, 2023
  • UTV HD - Closed on March 15, 2023
  • IG Interactive Entertainment Ltd. - Closed in 2012
  • UTV Global Broadcasting Ltd.
  • UTV Games Ltd. - Closed in 2015
  • UTV Indiagames - Closed in 2015
  • UTV Toons
• Viajar - Closed in 2021
• Voyage - closed in 2020
• Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment Physical Media Distribution (Australia) - Closed in 2023
• Walt Disney Television: transferred to ABC Television Network, and later folded into Touchstone Television (then ABC Studios, now known as ABC Signature)
• WatchESPN: Shut down on July 1, 2019.
• Wideload Games
• Wizzer Productions, Inc.: Production company for the 101 Dalmatians 1996 live action movie.
• Xee - Closed in 2022
• YourTV - Closed in 2019

Divested

• ABC Radio Networks, a radio network, along with ABC's non-radio Disney and ESPN stations sold to Citadel Broadcasting with the network renamed as Citadel Media, and later sold to Cumulus Media and renamed as Cumulus Media Networks before being merged into Westwood One.
• Baby Einstein: Acquired by The Walt Disney Company in November 2001, sold to Kids II, Inc. in October 2013.
• Bass Anglers Sportsman Society
• Childcraft Education Corp., maker of children's furniture and equipment, retail stores and sold to U.S. Office Products Co. in 1997
  • Childcraft, Inc.: catalog company
• DIC Entertainment - Acquired as part of CC/ABC purchase in November 1996, sold back to original owner in November 2000.
• DraftKings (minority investment)
• E!: part owner
  • Style Network
• Endemol Shine Group (50%) - acquired by Banijay
• FoxNext Games - sold to Scopely
  • FoxNext Games LA studio
  • Aftershock Studios
  • Cold Iron Studios
• Fox Sports Networks - sold to Sinclair Broadcast Group and Entertainment Studios
  • Arizona
  • Detroit
  • Florida/Sun
  • Midwest (subfeeds: Indiana, Kansas City)
  • North
  • Ohio/SportsTime Ohio
  • South / Fox Sports Southeast (subfeeds: Carolinas, Tennessee)
  • Southwest (subfeeds: Oklahoma, New Orleans)
  • West/Prime Ticket (subfeed: San Diego)
  • Wisconsin
  • YES Network (80% equity) - sold to Sinclair Broadcast Group, Amazon and Yankee Global Enterprises
• Fusion Media Network, LLC, Fusion cable channel joint venture with Univision Communications, sold off the remaining 50% to Univision.
• GMTV: part owner; Sold to ITV plc and renamed ITV Breakfast Limited in 2009.
• Hyperion Books: sold to Hachette
• KCAL-TV: Sold to Young Broadcasting, now owned by CBS News and Stations.
• KRDC
• Miramax Films: Acquired by The Walt Disney Studios in 1993. Sold to Filmyard Holdings in 2010 and then beIN Media Group since 2016, co-owned with Paramount Global since 2020.
  • Dimension Films: Retained by Bob and Harvey Weinstein and absorbed into The Weinstein Company when they left Miramax Films. Overseas rights, including the UK, to The Brothers Grimm were transferred from Miramax to Walt Disney Pictures outside the United States since 2015.
• MovieBeam
• Oxygen Media: part owner
• Power Rangers and related properties - Sold back to Haim Saban in 2010
• Radio Disney Group, sold off individual stations
• RTL Disney Fernsehen GmbH & Co KG (50/50 joint-venture with RTL Group) - Stake purchased out in March 2021
  • Kividoo subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) service
  • Scoyo
  • Super RTL
  • Toggolino Club
  • Toggo Plus timeshift service
  • Toggo Radio
• TrueX: Sold to Gimbal, Inc. in 2020.
• Walt Disney Studios Sony Pictures Releasing de México: Stake sold to Sony Pictures Releasing.
• Wondery (minority stake): Sold to Amazon Music in 2020.
• WJRT-TV, sold to Lily Broadcasting with WTVG
• WTVG
• TeleColombia: sold to Paramount Networks Americas in 2021.
• X Games

Venture capital holdings sold

• 56.com: sold to Renren in September 2011
• Iridigm Display Corporation: acquired by Qualcomm, Inc., September 2004
• Kyte: acquired by KIT Digital, January 2011
• Move Networks: December 2010 acquisition of EchoStar
• PopularMedia: acquired by StrongMail, June 2009
• Pure Digital Technologies: acquired by Cisco in May 2009
• Quigo: acquired by AOL December 2007
• Rosum: sold to TruePosition in December 2010
• Scrapblog: sold to Mixbook December 2010
• Sometrics: acquired by American Express, September 2011
• Youxigu: Steamboat sold its stake to Tencent Holdings Ltd. in March 2010

See also

• Timeline of the Walt Disney Company
• List of Marvel Comics characters
• List of Star Wars characters
• List of acquisitions by Disney
• List of libraries owned by The Walt Disney Company
• Acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney