First round of ESPN layoffs starts, includes 43-year vet Mike Soltys
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.
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!"
ESPN parent corporation Disney has found their next CEO.
ESPN+ now has 3.5 million paid subscribers, as per Disney CEO Bob Iger.
Disney CEO Bob Iger said in February "I don’t see The Walt Disney Company, certainly in the near term, getting involved in the business of gambling, in effect, by facilitating gambling in any way." Well, they're doing so at the moment thanks to their stake in DraftKings.
In March, questions swirled surrounding what would be next for the NFL Sunday Ticket package. The NFL was reportedly...
The deal is now being held up by anti-trust concerns in Brazil.