Buena Vista (Walt Disney Company)
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Buena Vista is a brand name frequently used for divisions of The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company is the largest media conglomerate in the world in terms of revenue. Founded on October 16, 1923, by Walt and Roy Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, Walt Disney Productions established itself as a leader in the American animation industry before diversifying into...

, whose primary studios and offices are located on Buena Vista Street in Burbank, California
Burbank, California
Burbank is a city in Los Angeles County in Southern California, United States, north of downtown Los Angeles. The estimated population in 2010 was 103,340....

. It was originally created by Walt Disney
Walt Disney
Walter Elias "Walt" Disney was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon, and philanthropist, well-known for his influence in the field of entertainment during the 20th century. Along with his brother Roy O...

 in 1953 after the release of Peter Pan
Peter Pan (1953 film)
Peter Pan is a 1953 American animated film produced by Walt Disney and based on the play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up by J. M. Barrie. It is the fourteenth film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series and was originally released on February 5, 1953 by RKO Pictures...

to distribute his film and television productions, thus ending a 20-year affiliation with RKO Pictures
RKO Pictures
RKO Pictures is an American film production and distribution company. As RKO Radio Pictures Inc., it was one of the Big Five studios of Hollywood's Golden Age. The business was formed after the Keith-Albee-Orpheum theater chains and Joseph P...

. Disney semi-retired the name in May 2007, although this name is, to the present day, used for most home video and DVD distribution. The name means, literally, 'Good View'.

Re-organization

The following Buena Vista Brands have been retired or renamed to a Disney
The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company is the largest media conglomerate in the world in terms of revenue. Founded on October 16, 1923, by Walt and Roy Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, Walt Disney Productions established itself as a leader in the American animation industry before diversifying into...

 and/or ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...

 name, in accordance to the company's branding strategy. BVS and Lake Buena Vista however, did not change their name.
Buena Vista Brand Replacement
Buena Vista Home Entertainment, video & DVD distribution arm of Buena Vista Pictures Distribution, Inc. / Disney's home video distributor Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (although the Buena Vista name is still being used for credit purposes on non-Disney branded material [i.e. the company's Touchstone
Touchstone Pictures
Touchstone Pictures is an American film production label and is one of several film labels of the Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group. Established in 1984, its releases typically feature more mature themes and darker tones than those that are released under the Walt Disney Pictures banner.Touchstone...

, Miramax
Miramax Films
Miramax Films is an American entertainment company known for distributing independent and foreign films. For its first 14 years the company was privately owned by its founders, Bob and Harvey Weinstein...

, and Hollywood
Hollywood Pictures
Hollywood Pictures is one of The Walt Disney Company's several alternate movie divisions. Like Disney's Touchstone Pictures brand, it produces films for a more mature adult audience than Walt Disney Pictures.-History:...

 labels]. It is also used in the address for Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment releases to this day.)
Buena Vista International, international distribution arm of Buena Vista Pictures Distribution, Inc. Walt Disney Distribution
Buena Vista International Television Disney-ABC International Television
Disney-ABC International Television
Disney-ABC International Television is responsible for The Walt Disney Company's branded and non-branded filmed entertainment distribution, now distributing more than 30,000 hours of content to over 1300 broadcasters across 240 territories worldwide.The television distributor licenses movies from...

Buena Vista Interactive, a software company Disney Interactive Studios
Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group, Disney's film studio division Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group
Buena Vista Music Group, Disney's music division Disney Music Group
Buena Vista Pictures Distribution, a motion picture & television feature distributor in the United States Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
Buena Vista Television, Disney's television syndication unit Disney-ABC Domestic Television
Buena Vista Theatrical Productions, Disney's stageplay and musical production division Walt Disney Theatrical
Walt Disney Theatrical
Disney Theatrical Group, also known as Disney Theatrical Productions, is the stageplay and musical production arm of The Walt Disney Company...

BVS (Buena Vista Studios) Entertainment (Formerly Saban Entertainment), the company behind the Power Rangers
Power Rangers
Power Rangers is a long-running American entertainment and merchandising franchise built around a live action children's television series featuring teams of costumed heroes...

and Digimon
Digimon
, short for , is a Japanese media franchise encompassing digital toys, anime, manga and video games. The franchise's eponymous creatures are monsters of various forms living in a "Digital World", a parallel universe that originated from Earth's various communication networks.-Conception and...

U.S. Dub Franchises (with the exception of Digimon Data Squad being dubbed by Studiopolis and Toei Animation and Well Go USA.)
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