Bob Iger on ESPN’s future streaming services: ‘We’re trying to serve sports fans in multiple ways’
"What we're trying to do is serve sports fans in multiple ways."
"What we're trying to do is serve sports fans in multiple ways."
As ESPN's parent company feuds with Elon Musk, Adrian Wojnarowski is holding a Q&A on Threads.
"Is that clear? I hope it is."
On Disney's earnings call, Bob Iger laid out how future plans for ESPN continue to take shape.
"They should have bought DraftKings. They should have been on the ground floor."
"The marketplace is changing … and I think Disney's desire to do something with ESPN is changing fast."
The pair of consultants both served in high-profile roles at Disney in the past.
Disney CEO Bob Iger received criticism for attending NBA games amid the company's mass layoffs according to the Wall Street Journal.
John Ourand of Sports Business Journal found, after consultation with sources, that private equity seems likely to be the "strategic partner" ESPN might work with.
This looks to be the first of three waves of ESPN layoffs, with another one also focusing not on on-air talent by the summer, followed by cutbacks to on-air talent.
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"I do think they're going to go to some other people who make big numbers and say 'You can stay, but we're going to cut you in half.' People are going to have decisions to make on that."
"I love my job at the NBA. I have no intention of going anywhere."
The NBA commissioner is notably among a list of names already being put forward as Bob Iger's next successor.
"Spinning [off] ESPN/ABC is the best path forward, and we see it as a reasonably probable late-’23 event."
"A crisis of this magnitude, and its impact on Disney, would necessarily result in my actively helping Bob [Chapek] and the company contend with it, particularly since I ran the company for 15 years!"