2026-02-04
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Walt Disney saying that Josh Demaro will succeed Bob Iger as CEO of the company.
This ends a three-year search to replace its long-serving leader who had to come back after the first time around didn't quite work out.
Let's bring in Geetha Ranganathan.
She is our US media analyst here at Bloomberg Intelligence.
And I want to contrast what happened this time around with the succession planning,
Geetha, with what happened in the past when Bob Chapeck,
also of the Parks Division, was named CEO but didn't last too long on the job.
Can you compare and contrast the different succession efforts?
Yeah, I think it was a very different time, Scarlett.
So remember, he was appointed in February of 2020, March 2020,
everything closes down, including, you know, Disney parks because of the pandemic.
So it was kind of unfortunate.
The timing was all wrong, I would say, for Bob Chappick.
And what happened then is, of course, movies were shut down,