Beleaguered Disney CEO Bob Iger is seeking a teammate for its sports network ESPN. Apple is expanding into soccer and baseball coverage for its streaming service. In 2024, Iger could look to Apple for a lifeline.
Disney is casting around for a minority partner to invest in sports cable network ESPN. It’s part of a wider effort undertaken by Iger, who is under pressure from activists including Nelson Peltz, to re-evaluate the $170 billion entertainment company’s broadcast portfolio, which includes other networks like ABC and FX.
Apple is a logical place to start. One of Iger’s hallmark deals was to buy Apple co-founder Steve Jobs’ animation studio Pixar for $7.4 billion in 2006. The all-stock transaction made Jobs the largest shareholder in the Magic Kingdom, earning him a seat on Disney’s board. Cook in turn recruited Iger to Apple’s board in 2011, where he served until 2019.
See: Disney CEO Bob Iger resigns from Apple’s Board of Directors – September 14, 2019
Both Disney and the $3 trillion technology giant have invested heavily in their respective streaming businesses, but they are in different stages. Disney needs money and Apple needs content, so a deal could work. Cook has bought rights to Major League Soccer and Major League Baseball. Having ESPN as its main outlet would be a punch up. Plus, Apple could seed the sports network on iPhones and through Apple TV to juice customer acquisitions.
MacDailyNews Take: Besides a sports brand, what does ESPN have that Apple couldn’t – and is already getting (see MLS Season Pass, Friday Night Baseball, etc.) – on it’s own?
Tim Cook has shown no appetite for mega acquisitions… Apple’s largest acquisition ever occurred in 2014, when the company acquired Beats Electronics for a mere $3 billion, a relatively paltry drop in the bucket (in Apple’s last-reported quarter, the company posted revenue of $117.2 billion. Apple’s revenue for calendar 2022 was $387.537 billion).
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I agree with MDN’s take – Cook has no appetite for mega acquisitions and the inherent bureaucratic scrutiny. Sony, however, could make an interesting partner for Disney.
Disney = woke libturds = bankruptcy. Fuck them and their woke bullshit and watch them circle the toilet drain
As opposed to head-in-the-sand ‘oh i’m such a victim’ repubtards railing and moaning?
You got it completely BAKWARDS, Sally. Only Libtards/Demtards scream victimhood…
Your fearless leader whines constantly. He’s the ultimate beta.
Time for another reminder, LIBTURD SALLY:
Libturd stupidity has caused:
-Lying, corrupt, racist, pedophile, dementia patient and whore installed in the White House
–complete unquailed VP who is unable to form a single sentence
-two completely unqualified judges on the Supreme Court place there because of their race and sex instead of qualifications.
-Burning cities
-Occupy movement
-Doubled gas prices
-Gas pipeline shut down
-US emergency oil stockpiles drop to lowest level since 1983
-Unaffordable healthcare insurance
-Legalization of marijuana
-Baby killing
-Wants to ban gas stoves to save children but has no problem killing unborn children
-Destroyed economy
-Crashed stock market
-Upcoming recession
-Highest inflation in 40 years
-Weaponized IRS
-Destroyed school system
-Open border crisis
-Illegal aliens getting drivers licenses
-Illegal aliens getting free medical insurance
-Illegal aliens getting tax-payer money
– National Guard pay delayed after congress celebrates itself for spending $1.7 Trillion
-Trading a useless, athlete for a notorious arms dealer (Merchant of Death), while leaving behind a USMC veteran, because she is an anti-American, black lezbo.
-Releasing a notorious arms dealer (Merchant of Death) while trying to deprive Americans the right to defend themselves with gun control so we can protect ourselves from violent libturds
-Red flag laws
-Voter fraud enabling
-No voter ID
-Illegals allow to vote
-Illegals given drivers licenses
-Labeling all non-libturds as domestic terrorists
-Labeling all non-libturds as racist
-“Extremists” used to be real terrorists, now it people who want to secure the border or keep pornography out of elementary schools
-Electric car mandates during electric crisis
-Woke bullshit
-“Identify as” bullshit
-“Inclusion” but only what libturds want to include
-Kneeling for National Anthem
-Woke hirings preferred over actual competence
-Obese, mentally ill person installed as head of health
-Mentally ill, genderfluid ‘puppy’ thief installed at Department of Energy
-Jill Biden gives biological male “Women of Courage” award
-320 genders
-It/that, them/they, and WTF pronouns
-Misgendering bullshit
-Epstein client list hidden
-Russia collusion bullshit
-Destruction of free speech
-Transgender perversion forced on children
-Drag queen story hours
-Boys in the girls’ bathrooms.
-Tampon dispensers in the men’s room
-Boys in girls’ sports
-Mentally ill man pretending to be a woman on a beer can
-Mentally ill man being a model for women’s underwear-
-Cancel culture in the name of “tolerance”
-Not OK for a child to pretend to be an Indian for a game, but OK for a man to pretend to be a woman in real life
-Men can get pregnant
-Record underemployment
-Defund police
-Soft on crime policies
-Zero bail laws
-Record high crime
-Obese, ugly men winning female beauty pageants
-Food shortages
-Corruption of Legislators
-Corruption of Judges
-Corrupt FBI
-Corrupt CIA
-Corrupt media
-Corrupt social media
-Acceptance of Socialism and rejection of Capitalism
-Election and reelection of incredibly stupid, mentally unfit politicians: AOC, racist Omar, We have to pass it to find out what in it, Pelosi, Guam will tip over Hank Johnson, brain damaged Fetterman, Dementia Joe—just to name a few.
-Ukraine gets: $200 billion, Congress gets: 41% pay increase, Taliban gets: $85 billion, Iran gets: $200 billion, American get: $7 eggs, $4 gas, 50% increase on electricity, free crack pipes, open
borders, fentanyl crisis, toxic spills
-The list goes on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and…
And you are so fucking stupid that you think you are the smart ones!
You want to start a revolution, but you can’t even start a lawnmower.
The next civil war will be fought between Americans and libturds. One side has 300 million firearms and trillions of rounds of ammunition, the other has strap-on dildos and toilet plungers.
Fuck Joe Biden. Fuck libturds
Liberal + dumb-as-shit = libturd
Ditto 👊🏼
do you mind if I copy that list and use it for the “beats” of a screenplay? It should be enough content for a few seasons.
Someone has been in a right wing echo chamber too long. No one normal cares about half that list and the other half is bullshit.
LOL…. u live in an upside down world Sally! 🤦♂️
ABSOLUTELY… GOeB…
Their whol misguided ideology is based on Victimhood and Freeloading!
Amen, brother…
Sally, you have severe mental illness. Get sterilized and commit yourself to a mental institution.
I dropped my Disney Sub …. Can not tolerate this bogus, tyranicl WOKE BULL CRAP!
F-Them
ESPN will be worthless if they are outbid for exclusive broadcast rights going forward, which could easily happen. What then would Disney bring to the table for Apple?
I Think Emma Watts or Sherry Lansing should be replaced Bob Iger as Disney’s CEO