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[Cfabar1]

Wouldn't that actually be a point in favor of Dana or Alan?

Depends on how you look at it. Earlier above it made it sound like if one doesn't get the job they'll leave.

So, if you give it to Josh, he stays. Film likely goes down to one person, so you save some money and business continues as usual.

Give it to Dana, Josh walks.

I'm not really sure it matters that much either way.

 

[wabbott]

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/14/disney-ceo-succession-why-co-ceos-may-be-a-bad-idea.html

Disney has considered a co-CEO structure to replace Bob Iger. Its history may make that a bad idea

Published Tue, Oct 14, 2025 - 6:00 AM EDT - Updated 5 Hours Ago
by Alex Sherman@in/alex-sherman@sherman4949

Key Points

• Disney plans to announce a successor to CEO Bob Iger in early 2026.
• Disney executives Dana Walden and Josh D’Amaro are both frontrunners for the job.
• Naming Walden and D’Amaro as co-CEOs could be an option for the Disney board, but the company’s corporate culture and history of bumpy successions may make the arrangement suboptimal.

 

[OKW Lover]

I'm a bit amused by this story. Yes, co-CEOs are a bad idea. Too much left hand not doing what the right hand wants can happen this way. And even more corporate in-fighting. The organization needs to speak/lead with one voice.

 

[Cfabar1]

To me It highlights the unique challenge of running a post-Eisner and Iger Disney...

The company has gotten so big, and has so many divergent thoughts and ideas there is no one really capable of running it...

Imagine if Eisner's vision for Disney - as a (inter)national timeshare operator, Mall Fast Casual Chain Operator, Regional Chuck-E-Cheese style operator, among other businesses had taken off...

I think a Co-CEO model is a bad one, someone needs to be given the opportunity to truly lead and move beyond Eisner and Iger's visions and chart their own path.

 

[Elijah Abrams]

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/14/disney-ceo-succession-why-co-ceos-may-be-a-bad-idea.html

Disney has considered a co-CEO structure to replace Bob Iger. Its history may make that a bad idea

Published Tue, Oct 14, 2025 - 6:00 AM EDT - Updated 5 Hours Ago
by Alex Sherman@in/alex-sherman@sherman4949

Key Points

• Disney plans to announce a successor to CEO Bob Iger in early 2026.
• Disney executives Dana Walden and Josh D’Amaro are both frontrunners for the job.
• Naming Walden and D’Amaro as co-CEOs could be an option for the Disney board, but the company’s corporate culture and history of bumpy successions may make the arrangement suboptimal.

The above article fails to mention that D'Amaro started his Disney career at Disneyland Park (Anaheim, California) in 1998.

Also, I think Alan Bergman should be co-CEO if they go this route. Dana Walden kinda beefed her chance thanks to the recent debacle involving Jimmy Kimmel.

 

[wabbott]

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/b...tv-sports-late-night-comedy-shows-1236400353/

YouTube Just Ate TV. It’s Only Getting Started

In two decades, the app has grown from a user-generated circus into the most powerful platform on earth. CEO Neal Mohan on his $100 billion vision for YouTube’s future and the disruption it’s left in its wake.

by Alex Weprin
October 15, 2025

During the past 20 years, the Google-owned YouTube has slowly — then rapidly — become a dominant force in media, the hub for a wide array of genres, from talk and comedy to food and unscripted fare. But the bigger prize for the video platform would be to take over the other hours people are spending on their TV sets, and there are signs that YouTube is close to a breakthrough there.

Sports, led by the NFL, is in many ways the final frontier for YouTube to conquer. The platform is on the verge of subsuming the genres that have helped define the past 100 years of TV. In fact, the CEO noted in his annual letter to the YouTube community that the platform’s viewership on TV sets has “surpassed mobile and is now the primary device for YouTube viewing in the U.S.”