Dylan Byers
speaker
313 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 3 Jun
Dylan Byers’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 1.
Appearances
And I think at a certain point, Bob Iger had to make a calculation, which is, okay, I don't want to run afoul of this administration exactly, but I also, I can't be put in a position where I am
undermining the brand power of Disney, undermining, frankly, my own legacy by keeping this guy off the air.
I don't want to be a party to that.
But of course, none of this is going to go away.
Like you mentioned, Sinclair, Nexstar, they're not broadcasting it.
Disney still has deals in front of the FCC.
I don't see Trump sort of backing down in his campaign against the media or against Disney and ABC.
So I think we're still in very early days of this dance.
Sure.
I mean, yeah.
And there's, you know, look, hindsight is 2020, but you could have had a lot more foresight here.
I mean, you can make the argument, you can look at what happened to Stephen Colbert and you can make the argument that late night does not have a bright future.
Generally speaking, you could argue from a pure business standpoint, the smartest thing to do would have been to get Jimmy Kimmel off the air before you ran into any of these problems.
That's not the kind of leader Bob Iger wants to be.
I mean, it's not – he came up at ABC.
He likes Jimmy Kimmel.
He has a good relationship with him.
And he – but getting in this position, which, look, he's not the only –
executive to find himself on the wrong side of the Trump administration.
But the way that he handled it was just off this sort of sudden announcement that you're going to preempt the show with no explanation, obviously doing it amid FCC pressure.
Showing 121–140 of 313 · page 7 of 16
← Previous
Next →