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Disney’s Woke Streaming Services Still Losing More than $1 Billion a Quarter as Bob Iger Tries to Rein in Spending
Breitbart ^ | 9 Feb 2023 | DAVID NG

Posted on 02/09/2023 3:35:07 PM PST by conservative98

Disney’s woke streaming services are still hemorrhaging money at an alarming rate, losing more than $1 billion a quarter at a time when CEO Bob Iger is trying to put the brakes on the company’s runaway spending habits.

For its first fiscal quarter, Disney’s direct-to-consumer business — which includes Disney+, Hulu, and other services — lost $1.05 billion, a 78 percent larger loss from the same period a year ago. The figure represents a slight sequential improvement from the fourth quarter, which saw a $1.5 billion loss for the unit.

The latest results come as domestic Disney+ subscriptions barely rose for the period, which included the Christmas season that normally would see a sizable bump in new customers. Worldwide, Disney+ lost 2.4 million subscribers, mostly due to its deal with India’s HotStar.

Disney+ has been wrestling with sluggish domestic subscriber growth in recent month as the streamer has increasingly embraced woke identity politics in its entertainment geared toward children.

As Breitbart News reported, the Disney+ series The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder is pushing reparations for slavery, claiming in its latest episode that America was founded on “white supremacy” and “still has not atoned” for its racism.

Disney+ recently featured a transgender “man” who menstruates in its animated Baymax series for kids. The streamer has also cast a drag queen and a “trans-masculine” actress in the upcoming Marvel superhero series Ironheart.

Hulu has also gone full woke with its docuseries adaptation The 1619 Project. The series has attempted to resurrect the original New York Times series’ most contentious and debunked claim — that the Revolutionary War was fought in large part to preserve slavery.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


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KEYWORDS: canceldisneyplus; cancelhulu; disney; disneyplus; hulu
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1 posted on 02/09/2023 3:35:07 PM PST by conservative98
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To: conservative98

Good news story of the day.


2 posted on 02/09/2023 3:37:38 PM PST by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: conservative98

Moving from Entertainment to Woke Education ,great idea


3 posted on 02/09/2023 3:38:55 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: conservative98

Go woke, go broke…


4 posted on 02/09/2023 3:41:25 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
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To: joma89

Nice to know they are having problems....still not enough.


5 posted on 02/09/2023 3:41:35 PM PST by Lockbar (Even when you think you finally have enough ammo, you still really don't have enough. )
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To: conservative98

GOOD.

I get offers for discounted fees for Disney+ or whatever their streaming service is and I ignore them.


6 posted on 02/09/2023 3:42:09 PM PST by Allegra
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To: conservative98

Not to sound like Joseph McCarthy

But some organizations have infiltrated and infected every major institution and company in this country.

I don’t believe it is the commies, although they are certainly useful idiots


7 posted on 02/09/2023 3:45:43 PM PST by algore
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To: conservative98

They should hire Chris Wallace


8 posted on 02/09/2023 3:48:41 PM PST by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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To: conservative98

I hope the go woke go broke lesson is financially painful. Very painful.

Their programming is offensive and is being rejected loudly. The only enjoyable thing to watch is their financial implosion.


9 posted on 02/09/2023 3:48:51 PM PST by Made In The USA (Ellen Ate Dynamite Good By Ellen)
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To: conservative98

I will not buy anything that I know is affiliated with Disney.


10 posted on 02/09/2023 3:48:58 PM PST by George J. Jetso
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To: conservative98
They should double down on the Woke. I remember CNN+ had some problems in the early days but look at them now.

What?

Oh. Never mind.

11 posted on 02/09/2023 3:50:44 PM PST by Billthedrill
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Hey Bob, it's not the spending. It's what you're getting for what you're spending.

They came for the grade schools. They came for the universities. They came for the non profits and charities. They came for the two parent families. They came for your child's gender. They came for your newspapers. They came for your news media channels. They came for you on Twitter and every other social media platform.

Their progress was disappointing in their minds.

So now they come for your toddler, shouting him or her down for being a child, demanding that toddlers become woke agents of politics.

That's the Disney of today. Burn it down and salt the swamp it was built on in better times.

12 posted on 02/09/2023 3:55:56 PM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) Forget "Global Warming", new grants are for "Galaxy Dimming")
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To: conservative98

I was going to subscribe to a NatGeo website to read an article I found interesting (a lot of their stuff is liberal claptrap, but this one looked decent).

I saw at the bottom of the signup page it’s a Walt Disney company.

So, a big nope!


13 posted on 02/09/2023 3:59:52 PM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America.)
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

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14 posted on 02/09/2023 4:05:46 PM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=50%>)
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To: conservative98

When the worm turns Disney may go bankrupt. People are getting fed up with woke.


15 posted on 02/09/2023 4:06:55 PM PST by wildcard_redneck (Germans are bat-crap crazy for cold showers, high energy bills, and boiled fturnips.)
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To: wildcard_redneck

From your lips to God’s ears…


16 posted on 02/09/2023 4:07:34 PM PST by Allegra
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To: conservative98

They are walking away! Keep up the good work!


17 posted on 02/09/2023 4:15:17 PM PST by Tom Tetroxide
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To: Lockbar
Nice to know they are having problems....still not enough.

They'll continue to have problems because they refuse to recognize the real issue: They need to clean out the "creatives" who are keeping the company on the wokeness path.

18 posted on 02/09/2023 4:23:35 PM PST by Schatze (It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.)
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To: conservative98

Good news. If Disney goes out of business I wont lose a wink of sleep.


19 posted on 02/09/2023 4:28:37 PM PST by JoeRender
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Be part of the team — financially destroy the Disney virus.


20 posted on 02/09/2023 4:28:55 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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