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President Joe Biden’s primetime State of the Union speech was great theater — inside the House chamber and out — and just the type of raucousness that is all but expected in the relentless cycles of polarized politics. Deadline’s Ted Johnson was in the room for it all.
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State Of The Union TV Viewership Falls 29% To 27.3 Million, According To Nielsen
UPDATE: President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address drew an estimated 27.3 million viewers, a drop of 29% from last year, according to Nielsen.
That figure is the lowest audience for a SOTU in at least 30 years, according to Nielsen records. Biden’s 2021 speech to a joint session of Congress…
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Disney Reaffirms Outlook For Streaming Profitability By 2024; CEO Bob Iger Calls The Business “My No. 1 Priority” But Vows Not To “Abandon” Movie Theaters Or Linear TV
Disney CEO Bob Iger on Wednesday reaffirmed the company’s longstanding guidance to investors that its streaming business will become profitable by the end of fiscal 2024.
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NBC has given a pilot order to St. Denis Medical, a half-hour mockumentary-style workplace comedy from the Superstore and American Auto duo of Justin Spitzer and Eric Ledgin. The pilot is produced by Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, where both Spitzer and Ledgin have overall…
Former Twitter Executives Push Back On GOP Claims Of Collusion With FBI In Handling Of Hunter Biden Laptop Story
The first full blown House Oversight Committee hearing of the new GOP majority was focused on Hunter Biden, and the role that Twitter played in suppressing a bombshell New York Post story about the contents of a laptop purportedly owned by the president’s son.
Weeks before the presidential election…
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Bob Iger Says ESPN Not For Sale
Bob Iger said Wednesday that ESPN is not for sale, though that possibility was explored by the previous regime.
He said he’d expected the question — which came on a call today with Wall Streeters after the company’s latest earnings — after news that Disney is splitting its businesses into three core…
‘Avatar’ Experience Coming To Disneyland
Disney CEO Bob Iger said a new attraction based on the Avatar franchise will hit Disneyland soon.
He called it the Avatar Experience and said details will be "coming soon" –not providing any.
But he noted the obvious, that Avatar is now a core franchise for the company, "which has a way of…
Disney To Reinstate Dividend By Year End
Disney CEO Bob Iger said the company has asked its board to reinstate the dividend by the end of the calendar year. The payouts, beloved by investors, especially Disney’s legion of retail shareholders, were stopped abruptly during Covid to conserve cash.
Iger said the company’s planned cost cutting…
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‘Frozen’, ’Toy Story’ & ‘Zootopia’ Sequels In The Works, Disney CEO Bob Iger Says
Animated sequels to Toy Story, Frozen and Zootopia are in the works, Disney CEO Bob Iger announced on today’s Q1 earnings call.
“Today I’m so pleased to announce that we have sequels in the works from our animation studios to some of our most popular franchises, Toy Story, Frozen and Zootopia,” Iger…
Disney To Cut $3 Billion In Content Costs Amid $5.5-Billion Savings Push As Bob Iger Makes His Move
Walt Disney is targeting $5.5 billion in cost savings, including $3 billion in non-sports related content, CEO Bob Iger said today on a meaty call after earnings where he detailed a company-wide restructuring.
He said the other $2.5 billion are general operating costs, of which $1 billion is already…
Disney Cuts Thousands Of Jobs Amidst Latest Restructuring & Costs Trimming; “I Do Not Make This Decision Lightly,” Bob Iger Says
The Walt Disney Company will be laying off thousands of employees as a part of a new round of cost cutting measures, CEO Bob Iger revealed today.
Speaking on the House of Mouse’s Q1 earning call this afternoon with CFO Christine McCarthy, Iger said that 7,000 jobs would be let go from the now…
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Disney Reorganizes Into Three Segments, Entertainment, ESPN & Parks
Disney is reorganizing its sprawling businesses under three core segments, Entertainment, ESPN and Parks, Experiences & Products, as CEO Bob Iger moves to restructure the company.
The move follows his dismantling of DMED, or Disney Media & Entertainment Distribution, set up by previous CEO Bob…
Dana Walden & Alan Bergman To Oversee New Disney Entertainment Unit
Disney is moving back closer to how things used to be run on the content side with the creation of a new Disney Entertainment unit that will encompass TV and film.
This new corporate division, which will sit separate to ESPN and the Parks, Experiences & Products unit, will be led by Dana Walden and Al…
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