News The Walt Disney Company Board of Directors Extends Robert A. Iger’s Contract as CEO Through 2026

[GhostHost1000]

You lost me at you not being creative or original in your retorts.

I don’t have to be creative. I visit the parks often and have my eyes open. That’s all it takes if you don’t worship the mouse

 

[Mmoore29]

You aren’t really experienced enough to make that judgment…frankly.

Do a lot of management analysis in vitro or in pre-K?

That’s the timeline

I’m talking about the Management issues and dynamics…not just the ledger.

Two things you need to understand:
Michael Eisner was far more creative and a better judge of where to go from a management standpoint than Bob Iger.
But he stayed too long and had a stronger personally. It was long past his time.
HINT!!

2. All the stuff Bob bought for that ledger he sold stock on (now at a Discount 50% off! Like prime day)…came from the infrastructure by the dudes before him. You can’t buy Fox for way TOO much if you Didnt expand the parks, the movie studios, buy abc/espn and put Disney product in all Those homes.

You and Supe should get together and be WRONG about everything at Starbucks or a cold brew place?

In addition, can you honestly say that Disney still needed Peter Murphy and the strategic planning division, that it shouldn't have decentralized decisionmaking?

 

[HauntedPirate]

You don't know that, simply because Eisner didn't give that chance. If he'd been named instead of Ovitz, things would've been very different, especially in having Eisner's tenure end on a much happier note.

And you know that how?

Yes, someone who considers himself creative because he gave the input of “More trees” would have miraculously grown into a role like that. Keep smoking that dust.

 

[Mmoore29]

And you know that how?

Yes, someone who considers himself creative because he gave the input of “More trees” would have miraculously grown into a role like that. Keep smoking that dust.

Can you honestly say that Iger would be worse than Ovitz?

 

[Mmoore29]

I don’t have to be creative. I visit the parks often and have my eyes open. That’s all it takes if you don’t worship the mouse

 

[networkpro]

Oh come now, there are no concrete reasons for your supercilious assertations. The SEC requires Form 10-K, Form 10-Q, Form 8-K, the proxy statement, Forms 3,4, and 5, Schedule 13, Form 114, and Foreign Investment Disclosures to be filed and are public records. The spokes critters can use all of the weasel words they want to obscure causation, but each of them contains numerical values that can be independently judged regardless of any perceived goodwill, intentions, or ESG scores.

 

[Trauma]

This company is not WORSE off, it's far better off. Disney is in a very healthy shape, a company that has no fundamental problems other than Genie+/Lightning Lanes. These brands are firing on all cylinders, but the press has a vested interest to put its thumb on the scale and knock the company down, a case of tall poppy syndrome write large. And shorts are artificially depressing the stock price, it should easily be 110 by now. The fact that shorts have 10 percent of the shares is despicable.

Remember, Murdoch could've easily told Comcast to pound sand and say, "We made our deal with Disney, we're not changing it, the bidding is closed." After all, Maker Studios refused to entertain Relativity Media's offer saying "We're gonna stick with Disney." A company can easily choose a lower bid. So all your point about that purchase points out that Disney could've easily waited it out for Murdoch to say "We're not changing horses."

Of course you can be a fan of Disney and still criticize it. That's what happened in the tail end of the Eisner era, and deservedly so. But this era is NOT like Eisner's, no matter how much you try to claim it is so. Iger has proven himself in his tenure, and he's still doing it now. You don't live to be 100 years old as a company if things are fundamentally wrong.

Let's also remember, even Eisner's end wasn't Disney's darkest hour. That was in between WWII and Disneyland, when Walt was still alive.

Sears, Roebuck & Company and the J.C. Penney Company, the nation's largest and third-largest retailers, told shareholders at their annual meetings yesterday that net profits surged in the first quarter.

Sears said its earnings rose 59.7 percent over the year before, while Penney's net from continuing operations more than doubled. The chains' results were the first reports for retailing's latest fiscal quarter since the report of a $6 million loss in the period by the F.W. Woolworth Company last week. K mart, the second-largest retailer, is expected to announce its quarter's results shortly. Analysts predict a decline.


Took over 100 years for this to fall apart.

But yeah Disney is invincible.

Bob Iger is brilliant.

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

Someone must need a dole whip

With a lot of liquor

Like 70/30

 

[Br0ckford]

Bob Iger has decided that only Bob Iger can do the job of Bob Iger.

Bob Iger had Installed the board to keep Bob Iger in power.

If anyone starts to become a threat to Bob Iger they will be dismissed by Bob Iger.

Bob Iger is the past. Bob Iger is the future. Bob Iger is the only possible solution.

Bob Iger thanks you for your support, but mostly thanks Bob Iger for being none other than:

BOB IGER

If you smell what the Bob is cooking.

 

[Mmoore29]

Sears, Roebuck & Company and the J.C. Penney Company, the nation's largest and third-largest retailers, told shareholders at their annual meetings yesterday that net profits surged in the first quarter.

Sears said its earnings rose 59.7 percent over the year before, while Penney's net from continuing operations more than doubled. The chains' results were the first reports for retailing's latest fiscal quarter since the report of a $6 million loss in the period by the F.W. Woolworth Company last week. K mart, the second-largest retailer, is expected to announce its quarter's results shortly. Analysts predict a decline.


Took over 100 years for this to fall apart.

But yeah Disney is invincible.

Bob Iger is brilliant.

Disney is not like those companies. Disney has a strong foundation, and a lot of product diversification. These retailers didn't, because they didn't prep for the Internet.

So your comparison completely falls flat. Nice try, though, bless your heart.

 

[SamusAranX]

Things ARE well. Iger isn't Eisner, and this isn't like 1999-2005 by a long shot. There is nothing fundamentally wrong with Disney at all, except Genie+/Lightning Lanes. These movies are great, these shows are great, these brands are vibrant and thriving. But the press thrives on spreading the Disney in disarray narrative, because they've been eager to make it so ever since 1995. Why? Because they are jealous and envious of Disney's success. The difference is that when they spread these reports back in '95/'96 when it wasn't true, Eisner took them to heart and MADE it true. Iger isn't like that. Heck, even Chapek, for his faults, didn't take things to THAT extent.

Let's not forget that even Eisner wasn't the company's darkest hour. That was between WWII and Disneyland, when Walt was still alive.

 

[Mmoore29]

Is it trolling to point out that Disney WAS on the ropes in that period, with Walt in charge? No. Of course, they dug themselves out, especially because Walt had the right idea. But the company hasn't been on the verge of death since then. Not even with Eisner.

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

Iger is creative too, and they would've been a great team in the vein of what Eisner and Wells did. Iger would've had Disney buy Pixar and Lucasfilm earlier, ABC would've had an easier time, the parks strategy (especially for Anaheim and Paris) would've been better executed. They would've done great things together.

Iger was the person needed after Eisner, case closed. You and others like you attempting to call him "David Zaslav-lite" is simply and categorically false. The company did great things under Iger and will continue to do great things. Especially if he's hinting that firing John Lasseter over allegations that were never proven was the wrong move, and we'll soon see him coming home to Pixar. Between that and the overtures to get Johnny Depp to return to do a proper Pirates sequel, things are looking good, indeed.

Iger was tv exec

That makes him good with production schedules and talent negotiations - I guess? - but that is not creative

You’re not gonna do that Facebook issue thing where you shout wrong things until you’re the last one talking are you?

Of course you are…

Google that too…because all your “opinions” are straight off safari…as you don’t have the life experience to talk as you are and therefore wisdom is a non-starter

 

[GhostHost1000]

Disney is not like those companies. Disney has a strong foundation, and a lot of product diversification. These retailers didn't, because they didn't prep for the Internet.

So your comparison completely falls flat. Nice try, though, bless your heart.

Well to be fair, Disney hasn’t prepped for the internet either. Their sites crash daily

Pretty sure they are running on hamster wheel generated power on a commodore 64

 

[Mmoore29]

Iger was tv exec

That makes him good with production schedules and talent negotiations - I guess? - but that is not creative

You’re not gonna do that Facebook issue thing where you should wrong things until you’re the last one talking are you?

Of course you are…

Google that too…because all your “opinions” are straight off safari…as you don’t have the life experience to talk as you are and therefore wisdom is a non-starter

I don't even use Safari or Microsoft Edge or anything like that, so you know.

And all I'm doing is joining the discourse, nothing more. Pointing out how these "Disney in disarray" narratives simply have been blown up to a ludicrous extent and that there's no way Disney is going to sell ABC. All I'm doing is having my say.

 

[TalkingHead]

Judging from the trades’ headlines looks like the interview in Sun Valley was a hit!

Think that’s called pulling a Chapek

 

[Trauma]

Disney is not like those companies. Disney has a strong foundation, and a lot of product diversification. These retailers didn't, because they didn't prep for the Internet.

So your comparison completely falls flat. Nice try, though, bless your heart.

Except when all those diverse products are failing at once.

I’ll just assume this is a bit your doing and move on.

 

[Mmoore29]

Except when all those diverse products are failing at once.

I’ll just assume this is a bit your doing and move on.

Except when those diverse products are actually doing well, but everyone has a vested interest in MAKING them fail because it helps their narrative.

 

[Trauma]

Except when those diverse products are actually doing well, but everyone has a vested interest in MAKING them fail because it helps their narrative.

I’ll play your game.

What product is doing well?

Name 3 since you have so many to choose from.

 

[GhostHost1000]

Except when those diverse products are actually doing well, but everyone has a vested interest in MAKING them fail because it helps their narrative.

So we have an interest in making Disney fail now so it helps our narrative?

As a longtime DVC member, I would prefer Disney gets better and doesn’t fail but trends and decisions made over the last few years are not the best.

People like me are vocal because we WANT things to improve