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BUSINESS, Page 59Business NotesENTERTAINMENTEven Kermit Has His Price
Move it on over, Mickey. Watch your back, Dumbo. A new clan
is moving into the Walt Disney menagerie: the Muppets. Last
week Disney agreed to buy Henson Associates, which owns such
characters as Miss Piggy, Kermit the Frog and Fozzie Bear.
Disney did not disclose the price, but analysts put it at more
than $100 million. Disney would get rights to most Muppets,
which will appear in the Magic Kingdom's theme parks, movies and
TV specials. (Big Bird and the other characters that Muppeteer
Jim Henson created for the Sesame Street TV show remain the
property of Children's Television Workshop.) Henson will become
a Disney consultant. Michael Eisner, Disney's chairman, called
the deal "a business association made in family-entertainment
heaven."