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...that was his pixie-dust era. ABC, which Eisner bought for $19 billion in 1996, swung from earning $1 billion in operating income in 2000 to losing $36 million last year. Eisner blew at least $1.6 billion on Internet ventures, including the Go.com portal, and in 2001 he paid $5.2 billion for the Fox Family Channel (considered a high sum), which was renamed ABC Family and proceeded to slump in the ratings. None of this has been lost on investors: Disney stock wobbles at around $22 a share, half the heights it reached...
Though he appeared on CBS and ABC as a commentator while he was Washington bureau chief for the San Francisco Examiner, Matthews made the jump to TV host amidst the cable news explosion of the mid-1990s. He joined the then-seven-year-old CNBC in 1995, while Fox News and MSNBC were still in development...
...rare sour note for Shapiro these days. Since George Bodenheimer, president of ABC Sports and ESPN, tapped the boy wonder (Shapiro is just 33) two years ago to reinvigorate one of Disney's most profitable brands, ratings have jumped 11%. Shapiro's playbook: original entertainment programming (which now makes up 6% of ESPN's lineup) and more live events, as opposed to ESPN's staple of sports news and highlights. While the critically panned Cold Pizza struggles in a cutthroat morning market, the sports-journalist-debate shows Pardon the Interruption and Around the Horn have scored...
Shapiro's melding of sports and entertainment has people making comparisons with another sports legend. "He's like Roone Arledge," says veteran producer Bud Morgan, who has worked with Shapiro and the late ABC icon. "Only smarter." And like Arledge, Shapiro is not the lovable Lou Grant type. He is quick to praise, but he is brutally honest--this spring he started informal "town hall" meetings with staff groups, at which he said he would push aside nonperformers. His commercial instincts have also drawn fire. Actress Thea Andrews is featured as a flirty sports reporter on Playmakers...
From age 10, Iger dreamed of being a network correspondent. But after a brief flirtation with TV news reporting, Iger moved behind the camera in 1974, working his way up to executive vice president at the ABC TV network in 1988. A year later, Iger was put in charge of ABC Entertainment. Under his stewardship the network moved from second place to first in prime-time ratings during the 1994-95 season. Through the hit show Home Improvement, a production of Disney's Touchstone Television unit, Iger got to know Eisner, who would become his boss when CapCities/ABC and Disney...