View Full Version : What exactly did Anne Sweeney do wrong to Disney Channel?


TMC
06-24-2019, 12:32 AM
The general criticism that I've heard about Anne Sweeney (http://lifeofananimationstudent.blogspot.com/2011/11/disney-channel-how-anne-sweeney-is.html) is that Disney Channel went from a channel that appealed to the whole (https://books.google.com/books?id=PDolDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA17&lpg=PA17&dq=anne+sweeney+disney+channel+teen+girls&source=bl&ots=B_46QkPud7&sig=ACfU3U3oNDgtDFC6TNZd3avN0UtQ26drNg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiC-ZXH-P7iAhVIPK0KHS4VB644ChDoATADegQIBxAB#v=onepage&q=anne%20sweeney%20disney%20channel%20teen%20girls&f=false) family and was actually related to (https://www.retrojunk.com/article/show/3931/rip-disney-channel-19832006) Walt Disney himself, to a version of MTV (https://books.google.com/books?id=uq1hI9VHBpoC&pg=PA203&lpg=PA203&dq=anne+sweeney+disney+channel+teen+girls&source=bl&ots=V8uykvez4E&sig=ACfU3U1Ly2VIZR4hK2HEAMd9UqMpYGnJCQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjl5Y-M-P7iAhVNX60KHcq2BHAQ6AEwE3oECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=anne%20sweeney%20disney%20channel%20teen%20girls&f=false) for pre-teen (https://forum.deviantart.com/entertainment/movies/2393913/) girls (https://animesuperhero.com/forums/threads/how-did-disney-channel-become-a-girls-network.5528492/). Also, animation under her watch (https://deadline.com/2014/03/anne-sweeneys-legacy-her-hits-misses-contribution-to-breaking-the-glass-ceiling-697549/) was placed into the backburner (https://www.reddit.com/r/SaveDisneyChannel/comments/9s88up/what_is_savedisneychannel/), in favor of live-action sitcoms produced by It's a Laugh Productions. And virtually all of those sitcoms were there to cross-promote the actors' singing careers. Sweeney herself all but admitted (or at the very least, insinuated) that her primary goal (http://www.fanpop.com/clubs/disney-channel/answers/show/423052/president-disney-channel-abc-anne-sweeney-admitted-goal-isnt-entertainment-but-solely-make-money-opinion) wasn't about making the most quality and entertaining shows as possible but to make money.