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Disney CEO Bob Iger Calls His 2023 Linear TV Comments “A Mistake,” Says He Is “Obsessed” With Finally Nailing Succession Process
It was "a mistake" to say publicly in 2023 that linear TV assets "may not be core" to Disney, CEO Bob Iger said in a new podcast interview.
“I was intent on communicating to Wall Street an open-mindedness in general about our business in the future, and I wanted them to know – this was after I came back to Disney – that my head was not in the sand,” he said, echoing reflections he shared last fall at the New York Times DealBook conference. The conversation ranged across topics like Iger’s favorite cheese (mozzarella), artists on his personal music playlist (country singer Zach Bryan is one) and whether his physical appearance at age 73 is in any way “medically induced,” in Ripa’s words. I loved the fact that I did not have a to-do list that was a mile long, that I didn’t wake up in the middle of the night feeling that I was late for my next meeting, which often happened, or that I was missing a plane, that I could read the paper and not keep looking at my watch in the morning because I had to get someplace.”
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