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Bob Iger moves to calm Disney staff after sparking ‘high anxiety’ over potential sale of TV assets
CNN ^ | Tue July 18, 2023 | Oliver Darcy

Posted on 07/18/2023 8:10:12 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Bob Iger is seeking to reassure an anxious arm of Disney’s business.

In an off-site meeting on Tuesday, the Disney chief executive spoke to senior leaders of the company’s television businesses, CNN has learned. The meeting came just days after Iger made decidedly candid remarks to CNBC’s David Faber in which he said Disney’s linear business “may not be core” to the entertainment giant — a comment that immediately sent shockwaves through the industry.

The admission to Faber naturally set off alarm bells inside Disney General Entertainment Content, the division of the Magic Kingdom that houses its linear business and operates quintessential broadcast and cable networks such as ABC, the Disney Channel, National Geographic, and FX.

Employees in the sizable division (there are thousands and thousands of employees who work for DGEC) have been experiencing “high anxiety,” sources noted to me, with them adding that Iger had effectively left staff “in the dark” by not communicating directly with them since the stunning interview. There have been no company-wide memos. No town halls. Nothing but silence since Iger jolted the organization with the news.

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1 posted on 07/18/2023 8:10:12 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Oh noes! Not THE EIGER SANCTION!!!!!!!!! Dun dun dun dun!


2 posted on 07/18/2023 8:14:12 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Senior leaders? The ones who likely have high-dollar parachutes if they are let go?


3 posted on 07/18/2023 8:15:25 PM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Go woke, go broke


4 posted on 07/18/2023 8:16:53 PM PDT by DallasBiff (Apology not accepted.la is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I’m thinking Disney’s bottom line must be taking a hit. I
used to be able to go to the parks and leave the world
behind. Now Disney thinks the Behind must be front and
center.

No thanks.


5 posted on 07/18/2023 8:17:22 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Yeah...the CEO can only tolerate so many woke productions bombing out before the veritable s#!t has to hit the fan.


6 posted on 07/18/2023 8:18:11 PM PDT by rottndog (What comes after America?)
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To: MinorityRepublican

High Anxiety....You Win!


7 posted on 07/18/2023 8:18:26 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

They can easily get jobs in our SCHOOLS, as schools are always looking for Groomers to hire.


8 posted on 07/18/2023 8:22:34 PM PDT by BobL (Trump has all the right Enemies; DeSantis has all the wrong Friends)
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To: MinorityRepublican

“Disney CEO responds to claims that the company is sexualizing children: ‘Preposterous and inaccurate’” https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4167620/posts


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Disney Executives Admit: Of Course We’re Grooming Your Children: Multiple Disney employees admitted their own personal missions to deluge 5- to 9-year-olds with as much of their own sexual ideology as possible.

Disney isn’t just grooming children with radical sexual propaganda — now they’re bragging about it.

On the heels of Florida’s new Parental Rights in Education law, which bars educators from instructing kindergarten through third-grade students about sexual ideology, multiple executives and employees from the Walt Disney Company admitted their own personal missions to deluge 5- to 9-year-olds with as much of their own sexual ideology as possible.

One Disney executive boasted about her “not-at-all-secret gay agenda” and efforts at “adding queerness to” children’s programming, in leaked audio published by investigative journalist Chris Rufo on Tuesday.

“Our leadership over there has been so welcoming to my, like, not-at-all-secret gay agenda,” said Latoya Raveneau, an executive producer for Disney Television Animation. “I was just, wherever I could, just basically adding queerness … No one would stop me and no one was trying to stop me.”


“Disney CEO responds to claims that the company is sexualizing children: ‘Preposterous and inaccurate’” https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4167620/posts


9 posted on 07/18/2023 8:32:42 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: rktman

LOLOLOLOLOL


10 posted on 07/18/2023 9:05:37 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: dfwgator

I tried to find an animated gif

https://c8.alamy.com/comp/PMB506/harvey-korman-mel-brooks-high-anxiety-1977-20th-century-fox-file-reference-33371-473tha-PMB506.jpg


11 posted on 07/18/2023 9:08:08 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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12 posted on 07/18/2023 9:09:14 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: MinorityRepublican

When the Boss says “Don’t worry, no one is losing their job”. It’s time to worry and start looking for another one.


13 posted on 07/18/2023 9:16:46 PM PDT by CapnJack ( )
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14 posted on 07/18/2023 9:19:14 PM PDT by xp38
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To: MinorityRepublican

Huge if ABC is for sale. If I had $20 billion lying around I’d definitely buy it and move the headquarters to Tennessee.


15 posted on 07/18/2023 9:40:50 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: MinorityRepublican

They thought he was clearing out all the pedophiles and had an anxiety attack


16 posted on 07/18/2023 9:52:17 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: MinorityRepublican

All the so called non-core Disney assets will be sold off.


17 posted on 07/18/2023 10:12:15 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: MinorityRepublican
The meeting came just days after Iger made decidedly candid remarks to CNBC’s David Faber in which he said Disney’s linear business “may not be core” to the entertainment giant — a comment that immediately sent shockwaves through the industry. The admission to Faber naturally set off alarm bells inside Disney General Entertainment Content, the division of the Magic Kingdom that houses its linear business and operates quintessential broadcast and cable networks [...]

Sangeet Paul Choudary distinguishes between two broad families of business models in an article in Wired magazine. Choudary contrasts pipes (linear business models) with platforms (networked business models). In the case of pipes, firms create goods and services, push them out and sell them to customers. Value is produced upstream and consumed downstream. There is a linear flow, much like water flowing through a pipe. Unlike pipes, platforms do not just create and push stuff out. They allow users to create and consume value.

-Wikipedia

Regards,

18 posted on 07/18/2023 10:22:39 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: DallasBiff

Please please please release Snow White early. It’s gonna be the biggest bomb since Nagasaki


19 posted on 07/18/2023 10:34:51 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (22 years on Free Republic, 12/10/22! more then 6500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

So what precisely is a non-linear business?


20 posted on 07/19/2023 3:56:34 AM PDT by Bookshelf
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