Alan Wagner, 76, First President of the Disney Channel, Is Dead
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Mr. Wagner was a former CBS programming executive who became the first president of the Disney Channel.
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Vlatko Pavletic, a former speaker of Croatia's parliament who served as acting president for two months, died Wednesday. He was 77.
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Humourist and broadcaster Alan Coren, star of Radio 4's The News Quiz, dies at the age of 69.
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Charles E. Scripps, longtime chairman of media company E.W. Scripps Co., died on Saturday, the company said.
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Joel Siegel, the upbeat and often joyous film critic for ABC television's "Good Morning America" for 26 years, died on Friday at age 63 after a long battle against colon cancer, the network said.
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Phyllis Cerf Wagner, a writer and actress who later published books by Dr Seuss, has died aged 90.
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LOS ANGELESâWalt Disney chief executive Michael Eisner said yesterday he will step down from the media conglomerate in 2006, aiming to end his two-decade reign on his own terms after a shareholder revolt nearly cut it short earlier this year.
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Joel Siegel, the upbeat and often  joyous film critic for ABC television&#39;s &quot;Good Morning America&quot;  for 26 years, died on Friday at age 63 after a long battle  against colon cancer, the network said.
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LOS ANGELES - Michael Eisner, who helped transform The Walt Disney Co. into a media powerhouse, but has come under increasing pressure recently to improve the company's lagging performance, will retire after more than two decades as CEO, the company said Friday...
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Billionaire Marvin Davis, a former oilman who sold his 20th Century Fox studios to Rupert Murdoch in the 1980s, died Saturday at his Beverly Hills home. He was 79.
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Embattled Disney chief Michael Eisner is finally saying goodbye to Mickey Mouse and the Magic Kingdom. The media mogul, who over two decades revitalized a sleepy Disney but saw it falter
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Dorothy McEwen, the former wife of the software pioneer who famously lost to Microsoft the chance to supply IBM with the operating system for its first personal computer, has died. She was 61.
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Advertising executive Philip B. Dusenberry, who oversaw the Pepsi television commercial in which Michael Jackson's hair caught fire and who helped coin some of the industry's best-known slogans, has died.
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Albert Warren, 86, who built a group of newsletters covering the telecommunications, broadcasting and consumer electronics industries into a small, influential empire, died after a stroke Nov. 26 at his home in Washington.
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Mercedes Quesada de Fox, the mother of Mexican President Vicente Fox, died Thursday, three days before elections to replace her son, the president&#039;s office said. She was 86.
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GEORGETOWN, Del., Nov. 18 -- When Walt Disney Co. chief executive Michael D. Eisner and Disney President Michael S. Ovitz appeared on "Larry King Live" on Sept. 30, 1996, their corporate partnership was dissolving into an acrimonious disaster.
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Actor Gareth Hunt, star of The New Avengers, has died of cancer aged 65, his agent announces.