Word: igerant
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...Recently Bob Iger, CEO of Disney, said the whole movie industry needed to radically rethink the way it was operating. What needs to be done? The movie business has for a long time been a troubled business. Content has never been king. The reality is that, wonderful as it is, the value of it doesn't go to the shareholders. Movie moguls need to be smart about how to manage talent. The reason [longtime Universal Studios owner] Lew Wasserman was able to make more money than anyone was that he set the culture of the industry. In his day there...
...which owns ABC, to be arriving for the Obama Inaugural festivities via United or American. Disney, like any self-respecting media company, owns or leases aircraft to get its own VIPs around. They're not going to let Miley Cyrus slum it on Southwest. The privileged would include Bob Iger, Disney's CEO. The company spent more than $65,000 in 2007 on Iger's personal travel aboard corporate aircraft, and it requires him to fly corporate when he's on business. Disney extends the private-jet perk to other top officers as well as directors attending meetings and other...
...negotiators are expected to bring the union's board of directors a rough contract on Monday, the result of recent bargaining sessions attended by News Corp chairman Peter Chernin, Walt Disney chief executive Robert Iger and WGA negotiators David Young, John F. Bowman and Verrone. The negotiators have used the contract producers struck with the Directors' Guild of America last month as something of a template. That deal doubles residual payments for films and TV shows sold online and grants the union jurisdiction over shows created for the Internet...
Looking ahead, investors want to see the fruits of Iger's fresh direction: new revenue streams from Disney's maturing broadcasting business, higher profit margins at the consumer-products unit, another year of box-office winners from the movie studio and signs that Disney's revamped online operation can contribute significantly to the bottom line. "The $64,000 question is: Where does Disney go from here?" says Miller, of SMH Capital. The Internet Group is working on YouTube-style user-generated content, MySpace-style personal Web pages and online social networking on Disney.com that is safe and family-oriented...
Gold and Disney, who eventually dropped their lawsuit over Iger's appointment, now count themselves among the Iger believers. "The ultimate outcomes of the technological changes that are occurring in the business aren't clear to anyone," Gold says, "but Bob is working hard to figure...