"El Gran Magnifico"
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Yeah. Disney gave us Chapek. Good point.
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News The Walt Disney Company Board of Directors Extends Robert A. Iger’s Contract as CEO Through 2026
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Yeah. Disney gave us Chapek. Good point.
So, your service is free?
Smiley/OCD
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No, trust me, Comcast isn’t free! We get Netflix & Peacock included with our cable TV & HS internet service…
JoeCamel
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And a Christmas card from the Roberts family every year....
Your conflating two different things. If artists could've gotten away with charging $1200 30 years ago they would've done so.
LSLS
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Bands didn't really make much off album sales, they have always relied on touring/merch to make their money. Sure, someone like Metallica selling 40 million made money, but the vast majority made all their money touring. In fact, even Metallica made a lot less than you'd expect up until like 1995 when they sued and settled with Elektra. Honestly, I haven't been around the industry in decades so I can't tell you why ticket prices have hit the levels they have, but the bands relying on tours isn't a new phenom based on the decline of physical media.
Your cable fee paid for your WWE programming. It isn't free. Your service pays for WWE content out of the monthly subscriber fee. Companies love to make it sound like your getting something free, but it's all bundled into your monthly bill.
Since you're paying your service for WWE programming and they aren't showing it any more, you should ask for a rebate.
Smiley/OCD
Well-Known Member
First off, it’s not MY WWE, I just used it as an example…of course it’s all bundled into our monthly statement. I just opined that we received Netflix & Peacock included as a “perk” of keeping the cable & internet service. My original post had to do with the addition of WWE to ESPN+…whether it would have an impact ( positive or negative) on their subscribers…as a longtime Disney World attendee, I know FULL WELL that you don’t get “somethin’ for nothin’”
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Disney succession race to replace CEO Bob Iger now down to two final candidates: report
D’Amaro’s public profile has left insiders with the impression that he is the favorite to emerge in what has become a two-horse succession race.
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It’s cute everyone thinks Bob is actually leaving.
Smoky
Active Member
I feel like there's two likely outcomes here:Disney succession race to replace CEO Bob Iger now down to two final candidates: report
D’Amaro’s public profile has left insiders with the impression that he is the favorite to emerge in what has become a two-horse succession race.
It’s cute everyone thinks Bob is actually leavin
A. Bob makes another Chapek tier hire out of personal spite for people liking Josh and expecting him to get the job
B. Bob doesn't actually retire and clings to power for years to come
I'm starting to think that there's absolutely no way this gets resolved in an orderly way that benefits the company OR the consumers.
Smiley/OCD
Well-Known Member
Option C: TWDC just creates an AI version of Bob that never ages & lasts forever…
Disney succession race to replace CEO Bob Iger now down to two final candidates: report
D’Amaro’s public profile has left insiders with the impression that he is the favorite to emerge in what has become a two-horse succession race.
"D’Amaro’s increasingly public profile has left insiders with the distinct impression that he is the favorite.."
Oh.. ""insiders"" have an ""impression."" Must be true!!!
He left once before. It has happened. Thinking it can't happen is denying history.
Oooooh Foundation style Bob
eddie104
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Remember Bob wanted to get into politics at one point ?Disney succession race to replace CEO Bob Iger now down to two final candidates: report
D’Amaro’s public profile has left insiders with the impression that he is the favorite to emerge in what has become a two-horse succession race.
It’s cute everyone thinks Bob is actually leaving.
I could see him pursuing that full time once he leaves.
He never left. He was still employed as a special consultant per the terms of his contract. Most of the C-Suite ran almost everything through him even when he stepped aside as chairman. He never gave up his office.
You're dealing with a person who named a building after himself...there is no actual separation from the company at this point. If he could get away with it, he'd rename TWDC, The Bob Iger Company.
Dranth
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I don't even disagree with much of the complaints about Iger, but he did leave. He left the company completely when he stepped down from the board. No office, no subordinates, no decision making, nothing.
Iger is still retired and sitting at home today if Chapek wasn't an incompetent clown.
Wrong.
His employment contract made him a consultant to the company for a period of 5 years after his official separation. Bob I. never gave up his office with the shower in it to Bob C.
Chapek was not a dummy, saying that is just a lazy argument. We can disagree with his approach and ideas, but he worked hard to get to where he was. His biggest fault was he refused to just be a figure head for Bob I, and got kneecapped as a result.
Dranth
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Which he was never called in for after he stepped down from the board. He was gone.
I didn't say he was dumb, I said he was incompetent and a clown.
Chapek got that position because Iger kept firing all the competent people who could replace him. In no way was he selected because he was an amazing candidate, he was the only one and that is 100% on Iger. Maybe he would be a great CEO at certain companies, but the man was an accountant that displayed little empathy and personality, which makes him a terrible choice for CEO at a company like Disney.
In just two years Chapek managed to p-off most of his work force, drive Imagineering into the ground, purposely lie to and go against the board which directly lead to a fight with the state of Florida and the loss of RCID, p-off Wall Street, put a hospital architect in charge of Imagineering, put an accountant in charge of the studios, oversaw the stock getting more than cut in half and that is all without even getting into what he did at the parks.
Bottom line, if Chapek didn't make a series of comically bad mistakes, he would still be CEO right now.
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
I don’t think it’s really hard to reconstruct how chapek “got the job”