Bob Iger
Bob Iger
Robert Allen "Bob" Iger /ˈaɪɡər/is an American businessman and the chairman and chief executive officerof The Walt Disney Company. Before Disney, Iger served as the president of ABC Television from 1994 to 1995 and the president and chief operating officerof Capital Cities/ABC, Inc. from 1995 until Disney's acquisition of the company in 1996. He was named president and COO of Disney in 2000, and later succeeded Michael Eisner as CEO in 2005, after a successful effort by Roy E. Disney...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth10 February 1951
CountryUnited States of America
As the business has gotten more competitive, it has also become more challenging.
There's a glut of product in the marketplace. It's actually a business that's showing some growth, but it's showing more challenge for the motion-picture side of the business.
This is a particularly interesting time for the Walt Disney Co.. It is interesting because we operate in very dynamic businesses in a world that is changing every day before our eyes. Business is changing at a much faster pace.
I think networks are in trouble if they continue to do business the same way. If networks are willing, and this one is, to do business differently, then I don't think we're in trouble at all.
We really believe that Walt Disney is a very able company with great depth and a great set of franchises.
The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.
We like the size of the company today given the environment and have no plans to split it up and make it smaller.
It's a good time to be in the content business though, the branded content business.
Are there challenges? Absolutely. But in aggregate, this is a very strong and valuable company.
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Miramax under them had basically become a major studio. We're still in the Miramax business, but it will be reconstructed to look more like what they started.
It's an unbelievable opportunity for consumers to stay or get connected to their favorite program.
it's not out of the question that DVDs could be released in the same windows as theatrical release.