Travis Hoium

I'm Travis Hoey.

I'm joined today by Lou Whiteman and Rachel Warren.

The Bob Iger era is officially coming to a close on March 18th, Lou, after Josh DeMauro was chosen to be the next CEO.

Dana Walden, who was in the running to be CEO, is going to be promoted to chief creative officer.

They both got big contracts along with that.

Let's start with Iger.

How are we going to look back on his tenure over the last 20 or so years at Disney?

Or just stay on for life.

What is different this time is they apparently had over 100 people on their radar for this job.

I think that's always interesting because there was really only two or three who seemed to be seriously in the running.

But his tenure is going to end about nine months early from the contracted end at the end of 2026.

And there's a story there, right?

I don't know what it is.

Yeah.

There must be a story.

Well, and he's also, he's going to be an advisor, but not have a real role coming into the office, which he did have when JPEG took over going into the pandemic.

So yeah, it seems like there's definitely a story.

There always is in these, you know, palace intrigue things, but it does seem a little bit different this time.

Like Disney knows they have to kind of kick him out the door.

They wrote a list with 100 people on it.