Disney financed the building of Disneyland through a deal with the network ABC in which he agreed to produce a television series. In the first broadcast of that series, he told viewers that "Disneyland the place and Disneyland the show are all the same" (Anderson 1994, 74-7; cf. Sorkin 1992, 67). As a clear case of economic repurposing, the remediation of the park by the television series was always honorific.