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The Walt Disney Company: Leadership Change
Josh D'Amaro became new Disney CEO, replacing Bob Iger who is now Los Angeles Lakers co-owner. D'Amaro is defending ESPN's future within Disney and signaling strategic shift toward moving more sports content to Disney+ streaming platform.
Source: The Wrap
- What happened
- Josh D'Amaro became new Disney CEO, replacing Bob Iger who is now Los Angeles Lakers co-owner. D'Amaro is defending ESPN's future within Disney and signaling strategic shift toward moving more sports content to Disney+ streaming platform.
- Who
- The Walt Disney Company · USA
- When
- 2026-08-15
- Source
- The Wrap
- So what
- A change at the top rarely stays at the top.
The leadership read
A change at the top rarely stays at the top. The Walt Disney Company's move reshapes the layer beneath it in the sector as a new leader sets priorities and the team re-forms. Watch the first two or three appointments that follow; they signal direction more reliably than any statement.
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