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While conceding that the Disney Channel has positive educational shows, Coalition Chairman Thomas Radecki, a University of Illinois psychiatrist, claims its violence can be harmful to children. Disney Channel President James Jimirro replies that the channel has received widespread praise from parents and teachers and only six complaints about violence out of 30,000 letters. Or, as Donald might...
...satisfy his audience. In the next year, 36 of those will be made-for-Playboy movies, with budgets of up to $1 million each and titles like Black Venus. The Disney Channel will spend at least $100 million on new programming during its first lg three years. President James Jimirro, a ten-year Disney veteran, has nearly 20 shows in development. One that will appear this fall is Five Mile Creek, a dramatic series set in Australia in the 1860s. Jimirro also plans to make six to eight movies a year. The first, Tiger Town, stars Roy Scheider...
Some Disney viewers have complained that the service is too "adult," that its programming is oriented not to children but to nostalgic older viewers for whom the shows are a kind of video déjà vu. Jimirro acknowledges that 20% of Disney subscribers do not have children under 13. But he prefers to see this as a sign that the service offers "something universal...