Disney ousted CEO Bob Chapek in November 2021 and chose to replace him with Bob Iger, who had led the business for 15 years prior to Chapek’s appointment.
According to NBC News, the entertainment behemoth has started to fall apart under Chapek’s leadership, in part due to the pandemic, dubious leadership choices, and a number of social controversies.
Not much has changed in the first several years after Iger’s return. Iger has reportedly been “having a hard time” in the eight months since his appointment as CEO, according to Robbie Whelan, the Disney beat reporter for The Wall Street Journal.
This is probably because recent months have seen substantial financial challenges for streaming services, major movie pictures, and Disney parks. According to at least one financial analyst, the corporation may have suffered huge losses totaling $1 billion between June 2022 and June of this year.
Iger may be attempting to offload many of the most valuable assets of the business for this reason.
A report from February said that the studio intended to eliminate 7,000 positions and a staggering $5.5 billion in expenses.
“It’s time for another transformation,” Iger said at the time.
Based on a recent interview, we now have a good idea of what this “transformation” is going to be.
“The transformative work of course is making sure that our cost structure reflects the economic realities of the business,” Iger said in a July 13 interview with CNBC
This includes, according to Iger, “dealing with businesses that are no-growth businesses and what to do about them.”
When asked if this would involve selling off major linear television assets like ABC, FX, National Geographic, and others, Iger responded that he would be “open-minded and objective about the future of those businesses.”
ESPN was the only non-core Disney asset Iger appeared to remove from the discussion.
“If you look at today’s media landscape, sports stands very, very tall in terms of its ability to convene millions and millions of people all at once,” Iger said. “There’s almost a guarantee that that occurs.
“It’s an advertiser’s dream. It’s a great demographic. It lends itself to technology in many ways, both in terms of coverage, distribution and consumption. And our position in that business is very unique. We have a great brand. We’ve had a great business.
“And we want to stay in that business.”
That doesn’t, however, mean that ESPN will remain in its current form forever.
“That said, we’re going to be open-minded there too, not necessarily about spinning ESPN off, but about looking for strategic partners that could either help us with distribution or content, but we want to stay in the sports business,” Iger said.
Iger’s message throughout the interview, in the opinion of Axios media reporter Tim Baysinger, couldn’t have been any more explicit.
Bob Iger basically put a giant "FOR SALE" sign on Disney's linear TV assets except for ESPN
— Tim Baysinger (@tim_bays) July 13, 2023
“Bob Iger basically put a giant ‘FOR SALE’ sign on Disney’s linear TV assets except for ESPN,” Baysinger wrote in a Twitter post.
Iger is enlisted to carry out his ideas. Less than a year into Iger’s second term, Disney reportedly extended his contract for an additional two years in mid-July, according to CBS News.
He will continue to lead Disney through the end of 2026.
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Ok, this may sound off-topic but it really isn’t.
Who else is sick and tired of the woke agenda being shoved down our throats every day?
You know what makes it even worse is that we are funding it with our dollars.
Yep, and it stinks.
Every day we are fighting the culture war that is destroying our nation and when we go to the store we are funding it with our dollars.
However, it doesn’t have to be that way and I am so excited to find alternatives.
The only “catch”?
It’s Invite only.
Good thing you know someone that has the invites….(me!).
Yep! I would not make a suggestion if I wasn’t going to hook you up.
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It’s the real deal for sure, and since it is invite only and does not run like other corrupt conglomerates they may have the SHUT OFF invites if they grow too fast.
We need to stop sending our dollars to the corporations that hate us and want to see us gone!
Remember the Georgia Guidestones?
They literally told us they wanted to reduce us from 8 billion people on Earth down to only 500 million.
No big deal, right?
Just an elimination of 94% of all people living right now.
And yet we continue to shop at their big stores and send them our money because until now we’ve had little choice.
Well, today that changes.
It’s time to “ditch and switch” and change where you send your dollars each month.
What if I told you instead of sending your money to Jeff Bezos and Costco and Walmart, you could shop at the LAST pro-America, freedom-loving, American designer, manufacturer, and shipper of all the stuff you buy each month?
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Yes, for real.
And what if I told you this is the best-kept secret you’ve never heard of before, but that this company has been doing this for the last 37 years?
And their founder was once placed on Barack Hussein Obama’s list of the Top 10 most “Dangerous Conservatives” in America?
(a list I one day hope to make myself!)
All of that is real and I’m so excited to tell you about it and I hope you’ll join the MISSION with me.
Here’s a quick summary of this company that I’m so excited to now be partnered up with on this mission:
Sound good to anyone else?
Me too!
I can get you in, but you can’t just go sign up.
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They’ve been doing it for 37 years and it’s been working great.
Oh, and did I mention the products are non-toxic and don’t have all the chemicals and crap like Red Dye 40 that all the Big Corporations put in their products to weaken you?
To wear you down?
To make you — and your family — sick?
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Stop sending your money to these 11 corporations that do NOT have your best interest at heart:
It’s an ILLUSION of choice.
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As I said, it’s Invite Only and the invite is completely free!
In fact, I’ve assembled a team of patriots who will personally get you invited and signed up….if you want in.
Folks, we don’t have many strongholds left.
This is one.
And I’m all in.
If you’d like to find out more and get a FREE personal invite, just go here:
Tell them Sassy sent you and I promise you will get a personal call or text. If you want an email make sure you use one where one of the team members can get in touch with you.
Don’t freak out when you do.
And make sure you tell them you are interested in the Black Angus beef!
I know I tend to get concerned when I get messages from numbers I don’t recognize, but if you request a Free Invite.
Link here:
And you WILL have someone from my Inner Circle reach out to you….so be ready!
These are awesome people and I think you’ll love getting a chance to talk with them.
And they’ll help get you all set up.
Who’s with me?
