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MarketWatch: A conference call to discuss Disney’s financial results became a forceful defense of ESPN in an age of cable cord-cutting, reflecting Wall Street’s concerns about the future of one of the media world’s most lucrative brands. While granting that ESPN has experienced “some subscriber losses” that he declined to specify, Disney CEO Bob Iger repeatedly argued that the channel will remain in a strong position. Disney has “enormous confident in ESPN’s future no matter how technology transforms the media business.”