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Disney CEO Bob Iger sees ESPN eventually becoming “far more of a direct-to-consumer product” as the streaming eruption continues to alter the entertainment landscape. The executive shared that outlook and touched on topics like the launch of Disney+, sports rights negotiations and Kobe Bryant’s death, during a podcast…

Disney CEO Bob Iger tweeted an apology to an elementary school in Berkeley, CA, after the company charged a $250 licensing fee for a fundraiser screening of The Lion King. “Our company apologizes to Emerson Elementary School PTA, and I will personally donate to their fund raising initiative,” Iger tweeted. The apology…

Disney’s fast start with Disney+, which the company said has racked up 28.6 million subscribers in its first three months, won raves from most Wall Street analysts but hasn’t budged the company’s stagnating stock price. The media giant reported generally strong results for its fiscal first quarter on Tuesday, though…

Disney CEO Bob Iger collected $47.5 million in total compensation in 2019, down nearly 28% from the $65.6 million he made in 2018, the company disclosed late Friday in an SEC filing. According to a proxy statement, Disney paid Iger $3 million in base salary, nearly $30 million in stock  and option awards and another…

There's a lot of social media spittle flying over Vince Vaughn shaking hands with Donald Trump at Monday's 2020 College Football Playoff National Championship in New Orleans, but the real action was on the field and in the sets of eyeballs tuning in. Supported by the Wedding Crashers star, No. 1-ranked Louisiana State…

Apple CEO Tim Cook saw his annual compensation fall 26% to $11.56 million for 2019, the tech giant reported Friday, in a year the company launched its foray into streaming with Apple TV+ and its valuation surpassed $1 trillion. According to an SEC proxy filing this afternoon, Cook’s salary remained unchanged for a…

SPOILER ALERT: This video contains details of TV series that aired in 2019. History is always ultimately created in hindsight, even on television. Yet the fact remains that even though this year isn't completely over, it is clear that almost everything changed for the small screen in 2019 – and I'm not taking about…

Christmas might not feel so merry for the Walt Disney Company this year after a hearing this morning on the potential class action pay equity lawsuit from 10 female employees of the House of Mouse did not go to a happy place for the Bob Iger-run company. With LaRonda Rasmussen and seven more of the probable plaintiffs…

Climate change campaigner Greta Thunberg has been named Time magazine's 2019 Person of the Year, while Disney CEO Bob Iger and pop star Lizzo have also been feted. 16-year old Thunberg, who addressed the United Nations Climate Change conference in 2018 and this year helped organize multi-city climate protests…

Spider-Man star Tom Holland put a tipsy spin on Disney CEO Bob Iger’s explanation for how the web-slinging character was welcomed back into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. During last night’s visit to ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Holland was asked about an anecdote Iger had previously made on the show in which an…

Disney boss Bob Iger, Nickelodeon and Oxygen co-founder Geraldine Laybourne, director Jay Sendrich and performers Seth MacFarlane and Cicely Tyson have been chosen as the latest members of the Television Academy’s Hall of Fame. The 25th Hall class unveiled Tuesday will be inducted in a ceremony January 28 at the TV…

A dying Star Wars fan has gotten his wish to see The Rise of Skywalker. Disney chairman and CEO Bob Iger on Friday helped facilitate a private screening of the film for mid-December – when the movie is scheduled to be released in the UK. – after Rowans Hospice in Hampshire, England, made a plea on Twitter on behalf of…