Disney's first character traded for a sports announcer

Cory Doctorow 7:59 am Fri Feb 10, 2006

Walt Disney's first successful cartoon character has been repatriated to the Disney company in a bizarre trade with NBC.

Early in Walt Disney's career, he had a minor success with a character named Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, a distant ancestor of Mickey Mouse. However, Walt lost the rights to Oswald in a sour business-deal with a distribution company (an historical film shown at the Disney parks has it that he was ripped off).

Now, nearly a century later, the Disney company has agreed to release a sports announcer named Al Michaels from its ABC network to NBC, which presently holds the rights to Oswald. NBC gave Disney a number of commercial concessions, and sweetened the deal with control over Oswald.

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