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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.

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To: conservative98

If it wasn’t for the parks revenue they’d be completely screwed.

CC


21 posted on 02/09/2023 4:37:53 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: conservative98
A billion dollars a quarter? Isn't that over $11 million dollars a day?

That's gonna be a challenge for a company pushing a pervert grooming agenda instead of products the customers really want.

22 posted on 02/09/2023 4:40:19 PM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

How do you lose a billion dollars a day from a streaming service? Should be just a warehouse full of servers. What are their costs?


23 posted on 02/09/2023 4:44:22 PM PST by Calvin Cooledge
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To: RoosterRedux

I meant a billion a quarter. But question is the same.


24 posted on 02/09/2023 4:45:20 PM PST by Calvin Cooledge
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To: RoosterRedux

Plus, Gov DeSantis taking steps to make Disney pay their “fair share” of taxes. Soak the big corporations, right children? Ain’t Karma a b*tch.


25 posted on 02/09/2023 4:48:31 PM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: Calvin Cooledge

Producing Content for their streaming service. Expensive series.


26 posted on 02/09/2023 5:05:18 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: hinckley buzzard

I heard he had caved on that deal.


27 posted on 02/09/2023 5:05:54 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: conservative98
For its first fiscal quarter, Disney’s direct-to-consumer business — which includes Disney+, Hulu, and other services...

I'm sure the new 1619 Project on Hulu will be a big hit. NOT!

28 posted on 02/09/2023 5:10:52 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man. )
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To: conservative98
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.

And they wonder why they are using subscribers?!

29 posted on 02/09/2023 5:15:14 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man. )
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To: conservative98
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.

Give me liberty or give me death

If this be treason, make the most of it.

Taxation without representation is tyranny.

Join or die.

These are the times that try men's souls.

When in the course of human events....

Yeah, the cause of slavery is written all over the revolution. I declare Nikole Hannah-Jones should be jailed for the excremental divisive race-war-inciting hogwash she is selling (and getting rich from).

30 posted on 02/09/2023 5:21:45 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man. )
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To: algore

Joe McCarthy was 100% correct. The eneMedia hated him for outing their embeds.


31 posted on 02/09/2023 5:23:46 PM PST by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves)
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To: Made In The USA
I hope the go woke go broke lesson is financially painful. Very painful.

The top management will skate from the repercussions of their actions. Unfortunately it is the rank-and-file employees who will bear the brunt of it.

32 posted on 02/09/2023 5:24:50 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man. )
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To: conservative98

Who says there’s no good news?


33 posted on 02/09/2023 5:25:07 PM PST by ConservativeInPA (Stupidly is a moral problem, not an intellectual problem. )
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To: conservative98
Toby Tyler joined the new circus and found out they all wanted to sodomize him. The new and improved Disney.
34 posted on 02/09/2023 5:28:13 PM PST by eyedigress (Trump is my President!)
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To: Rummyfan

Losing sorry....


35 posted on 02/09/2023 5:30:05 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man. )
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To: Calvin Cooledge

You still have to produce the content that those servers host and transmit.


36 posted on 02/09/2023 5:31:32 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man. )
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To: conservative98

Andor is good. Not woke. They can’t see when success stares in their faces.


37 posted on 02/09/2023 5:33:50 PM PST by IndispensableDestiny
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To: Rummyfan
Yeah, the cause of slavery is written all over the revolution.

Just wait, next they'll be saying the the Louisiana Purchase was done specifically to expand slavery. These are twisted, sick people.

38 posted on 02/09/2023 5:41:04 PM PST by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: wildcard_redneck

They aren’t going bankrupt..

Bob Chapek was a fustercluck, to be sure, but Disney has had long term issues well before Chapek…

However they made $3.2 Billion in profits in 2022.


39 posted on 02/09/2023 5:42:06 PM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: conservative98

Unfortunately people still watch ESPN and go to their theme parks amongst other things so they’re making plenty of money....sadly.


40 posted on 02/09/2023 5:51:18 PM PST by DAC21
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