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...Disney had to get a login for ESPN tennis analyst John McEnroe, who tested positive for Covid-19 last week and was forced to miss some early-round matches in person....
...He is set to join Walt Disney’s board next year where he will sit on a special succession planning committee....
...But the most intriguing aspects of the performance of Wagner’s opera at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles on January 18 (the first of three) were the set design and the cast....
...Walt Disney expressed the story in his own way, employing many talented artists to do so....
...Walt Disney has struck an $8.5bn deal to merge its India business with Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries conglomerate, in a move that will reduce the entertainment group’s financial exposure to what has...
...Peltz secured a board seat for his son-in-law, and then in October 2018 got Immelt’s successor John Flannery replaced by CEO Larry Culp....
...Additional reporting by John Reed...
...john.gapper@ft.com...
...“Netflix has pulled away,” says John Martin, co-founder of Pugilist Capital and former chief executive of Turner Broadcasting....
...Sports betting was always ESPN’s “manifest destiny”, said John Kosner, a former ESPN executive in charge of its digital products who runs industry consultancy Kosner Media....
...For millions of American fans those face-offs are inaccessible because of another star showdown: “Battlin’” Bob Iger taking on John “Cable Cowboy” Malone....
...Join us in London on October 17 as we gather some of the biggest names in finance and dealmaking including UK Competition and Markets Authority chief Sarah Cardell, Bain Capital’s John Connaughton and BDT...
...“It’s inexorable,” says John Rekenthaler, who has been tracking mutual funds for Morningstar since the 1980s. “I don’t see what a mutual fund can do better than [an] ETF . . ....
...Professors John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt have argued that when it comes to maintaining the balance of power in Europe, the Middle East and Asia — “Washington should pass the buck to regional powers.”...
...John Textor, a businessman with a background in technology, led the acquisition by Eagle Football Holdings. Private equity firm Ares Management provided most of the financing....
...In that context, John Textor’s decision to invite offers for the LDLC arena seems to buck that trend....
...Pixar was ironically started by a man who learned his trade at Disney, a guy called John Lassiter. He put John Lassiter in charge of Disney Animation. The output improved immeasurably....
...Also, the British Medical Association’s strike ballot of consultant doctors in England closes US: arraignment of Walt Nauta, aide to former president Donald Trump, on numerous charges, including conspiracy...
...A majority of Walt Disney shareholders in 2018 voted against a pay deal for Iger totalling more than $100mn....
...In the spring of 2017, Rupert Murdoch sat down to a meeting in New York with his eldest son, Lachlan, and trusted executive John Nallen, and presented them with a piece of paper....
...Walt Disney has scrapped plans to relocate thousands of California-based employees to a new campus in central Florida, according to an internal memo....
...John D’Agostino, senior institutional strategist, quipped about how much he loved banks, urging any bankers in the audience to “call me”....
...Job moves Peloton chair and co-founder John Foley has abruptly resigned from the connected fitness company along with two other executives, in the biggest management shake-up since Barry McCarthy arrived...
...Winter Insomnia announces the volume at the top of one stack, followed by John Updike’s Tossing and Turning....
...Since 2016, the veteran US television executive John Landgraf has been predicting the arrival of “peak TV” — the moment when the number of new scripted shows reaches an all-time high....
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