What is Walt Disney Television?
{{For|the current television division which was known as Walt Disney Television from 2019 to 2021|Disney General Entertainment Content}} {{Infobox company | name = Walt Disney Television | logo = Walt Disney Television logo.svg | former_names = Walt Disney Pictures Television Division (1983–1988) | type = [[Division (business)|Division]] | industry = [[Production company|Television production]] | fate = Absorbed into the first incarnation of Touchstone Television (which changed name to ABC Studios, then ABC Signature Studios and now ''ABC Signature''), with the animation division (Walt Disney Television Animation (now just ''Disney Television Animation'')) spun-out as a separate standalone subsidiary. | successors = {{Plainlist| * [[ABC Signature]] * [[20th Television]] * [[Disney Television Studios]] * [[It's a Laugh Productions]] * The current iteration of Walt Disney Television (currently ''[[Disney General Entertainment Content]]'') * [[Disney Television Animation]] (as a standalone subsidiary) }} | founded = {{Start date and age|1983|4|18}} | defunct = {{End date and age|2003}} | hq_location_city = [[Burbank, California|Burbank]], [[California]] | hq_location_country = [[United States|USA]] | products = [[Television show]]s and [[Television film|films]] | parent = {{Plainlist| * [[The Walt Disney Company|Walt Disney Productions]] {{small|(1983–1986)}} * [[Disney General Entertainment Content#Walt Disney Television and Telecommunications|Walt Disney Television and Telecommunications]] {{small|(1986–1996)}} * [[Walt Disney Studios (division)|The Walt Disney Studios]] {{small|(1996–1999)}} }} }} ==History== It was started in 1983, as the '''Walt Disney Pictures Television Division''', the name was later shortened to '''Walt Disney Pictures Television''' and in 1986 was later shortened to '''Walt Disney Television''' in 1988. Until 1983, Disney shows were aired under the banner of the parent company, then named [[The Walt Disney Company|Walt Disney Productions]]. ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites==