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Ladies and gents, welcome to another Gadgetell Live-Blog.  We’re now waiting for Robert Iger, President and CEO of Walt Disney Corp., to come out on stage.  But first, I’m sure we’ll be blessed with Gary Schapiro’s presence.  So stay tuned for that.

They’re now playing a CEA promo video that is playing off of Monday night football.  Gary Schapiro, along with many famous people, said “Lets get ready for Monday night Keynote”... then they just had ESPN announcers that were at Monday Night Football game building it up (since Disney owns ESPN).

4:46 PM PST - Schapiro and Iger just took the stage, made a few jokes, then Schapiro just left the stage.

Continue after the break…

As we’ve mentioned in our other keynote coverage, the Internet is absolutely horrid in here so we may lose you, in which case we’ll upload the post after the show.

4:49 PM PST - We just finished up watching a Disney promo video including Pixar, XGames, Soap, Disney Radio, Disney World, ESPN, etc…

4:53 PM PST - “The best way to combat piracy is to bring products to the market in a timely manner.”  Disney content has been downloaded over 120 million times on iTunes since its introduction a few months ago.

They’re now showing a trailer for the new movie Ratatauille - which has amazing animation (Pixar).  It appears June 29 in a theater near you.

4:58 PM PST - Iger is now going over Lost and how it’s the show on the most platforms.  Talking about Disney.com - and on mobile phones.

5:00 PM PST - They just showed “The Last Episode of Lost” - which was a clip of the characters from the show talking about CES - it was hilarious.  Kate and Jack from Lost are now on stage.  I feel like we’re sitting in an Inside the Actor’s Studio here.

5:06 PM PST - Kate and Jack from Lost just left the stage and Iger has moved on to talk about ESPN and how sports fans are addicted.

Now we’re watching a promo video about ESPN with lots of behind the scenes footage of the cameramen, announcers and crew.

Mike Touriko, the host of Monday Night Football was just introduced.  They’re now taking us live in HD to a game going on right now betweeen Villa Nova and Georgetown.  Now they’re showing us how viewers across 102 countries on 6 continents are watching ESPN right now.

5:11 PM PST - Now they’re running through ESPN.com and showing all of the new features, including Polls, and the My ESPN customization portal.

ESPN 360 is an online version of the TV network that shows tons of shows and events live.  Mike has just left the stage… moving on.

5:16 PM PST - Disney.com - is a “site-map for all things Disney” - they are now unveiling the new website and showing off features.  It is a good-looking, totally Flash layout that has a video player displayed prominantly in the center.

5:29 PM PST - They just came on stage and did a demo of the entire site.  It looks great… for 2 year olds… and gets kids interacting with each other.  Jerry Bruckheimer has just come on stage to talk about Pirates of the Caribbean 3 - Keith Richards (guitar player from the Rolling Stones) is going to be in the 3rd one.

5:33 PM PST - We’re now watching the World Premier of the Pirates of the Caribbean 3 trailer/behind the scenes look.  The movie is coming out on May 25th.

That’s it for the keynote folks.  Thanks for tuning in and we’ll see you at tomorrow’s keynote with Michael Dell.