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Obama Jobs Summit Will Include Business Leaders: Google, Disney CEOs To Attend

New York Times | JACKIE CALMES | Posted 11.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Google, Bob Iger, Unemployment, Jobs Bill, Jobs Summit, Krugman, Eric Schmidt, Financial Crisis, Stiglitz, Obama, Disney, Air Tractor, Stimulus, Business News

The invitations went out just before Thanksgiving, but by the end of the holiday weekend the White House has confirmed that President Obama's jobs sum...

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Rahm Emanuel Called Media CEOs Personally To Lobby For Obama Airtime

Washington Post | Howard Kurtz | Posted 09.03.2009 | Media

Read More: Obama Networks, Les Moonves, Rahm Emanuel Jeff Immelt, Rahm Emanuel, Rahm Emanuel Bob Iger, Jeff Immelt, Rahm Emanuel Les Moonves, Bob Iger, Media News

Rather than calling ABC, the White House chief of staff phoned Bob Iger, chief executive of parent company Disney. Instead of contacting NBC, Emanuel ...

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Bob Iger: Hulu Could Charge For Content, People Will Pay Online

AP | Posted 08.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Disney, Hulu, Bob Iger, Media News

PASADENA, Calif. — Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Bob Iger said Wednesday the Hulu online video streaming site that it now co-owns could one da...

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Bob Iger: "People Are Going To Pay" For Content Online

WSJ | Julia Angwin | Posted 08.08.2009 | Media

Read More: Blake Krikorian, Twitter, Sun Valley 2009, Sling Box, Rupert Murdoch, Mark Zuckerberg, Warren Buffett, Evan Williams, Bob Iger, LeBron James, Allen Company, Sun Valley, Allen and Company, Media News

As the media moguls gather here in Sun Valley, Idaho, for their annual schmooze-fest, there is one phrase on everybody's lips as they emerge from thei...

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Celebs And Kids At Charity Event: Ashlee, Sharon Stone, Wahlberg, Miley & More (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Katy Hall | Posted 07.09.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Lauren Bosworth, Miley Cyrus, Sharon Stone, Denise Richards, Mark Wahlberg, Pete Wentz, Celebrity Kids, Bob Iger, Nick Lachey, Bronx Mowgli Wentz, Vanessa Minnillo, Lauren Conrad, Melissa Joan Hart, Ashlee Simpson, Nigel Barker, Selena Gomez, Slideshow, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, Cloris Leachman, Entertainment News

The six-month-old Simpson-Wentz child and his parents, Sharon Stone, Denise Richards, Selena Gomez, Mark Wahlberg and a smattering of reality televisi...

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Highest-Paid CEOs For 2008: AP's Top 10 List

AP | The Associated Press | Posted 06.02.2009 | Business

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The 10 highest-paid CEOs for 2008 at Standard & Poor's 500 companies based on calculations by The Associated Press. The analysis includes companies th...

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BusinessWeek: Disney Is The Media Industry's Best Bet For Stability During Financial Crisis

BusinessWeek | Jon Fine | Posted 11.17.2008 | Media

Read More: Walt Disney Co., Disney, Bob Iger, Media News

The explanation of Disney's performance begins with one simple fact: Among its peers, the entertainment giant derives the smallest percentage of reven...

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Disney's Bob Iger Explains Why ABC Passed On CNN Outsourcing, Why Media Concentration Is "A Joke"

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 04.16.2008 | Media

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Disney President and CEO Bob Iger said this morning that ABC News decided against partnering with CNN years ago because they were interested in a "tru...

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Dick Van Dyke Again Sings "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"

AP | MICHAEL CIDONI | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Dick Van Dyke, Geffen Playhouse, Robert Iger, Bob Iger, Entertainment News

LOS ANGELES — Dick Van Dyke may be 82, but he can still get 14 syllables into a single word. Van Dyke sang "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" ...

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Iger: Disney to Reap $1 Billion Online

AP | RYAN NAKASHIMA | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

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LOS ANGELES — The Walt Disney Co. expects to collect $1 billion in revenue from online content this fiscal year, a significant rise from estimat...

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Disney/ABC Opens Vault To Vintage TV

Silicon Alley Insider | Michael Learmonth | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Abc, NBC Classic TV, Vintage TV, NBC Vintage TV, Disney/ABC, Jason Kilar Hulu, Nbc, Cbs, Classic TV, The a-Team, Disney Classic TV, Disney TV, Zorro, Star Trek, Disney Bob Iger, Bob Iger, Jason Kilar, Tv, CBS Vintage TV, Disney Vintage TV, Davy Crockett, Disney, CBS Classic TV, Silicon Alley Insider, Michael Learmonth, Airwolf, Media News

Disney is going to raid the TV archives, a move that may allow viewers to watch 50s-era series like "Zorro" and "Davy Crockett" via ad-supported strea...

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Twilight Of The Media Moguls

BusinessWeek | Johnnie L. Roberts | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Media Conglomerates, John Malone, LIBERTY MEDIA, IAC/InterActiveCorp, Sumner Redstone, Rupert Murdoch, Home Shopping Network, Barry Diller, Iac, Wendi Murdoch, Jeff Bewkes, Bob Iger, Business News

If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, as the old chestnut says, then it makes perfect sense that Barry Diller would host a swanky soiree last summer ...

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Iger's TV Rat Problem

Huffington Post | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

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The ladies of "The View" kicked off Tuesday's show by complaining about the gigantic rats scurrying around backstage. By the end of the hour, they rec...

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Familiar Faces Top Fortune's Power 25

Fortune | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Lloyd Blankfein, Steve Jobs, Rex Tillerson, Power 25, John Chambers, Eric Schmidt, Jamie Dimon, Bill Gates, Fortune Power 25, Steve Schwarzman, Ratan Tata, Indra Nooyi, Jeff Immelt, Sergei Brin, Bob Iger, James McNerney, Katsuaki Watanabe, Mark Hurd, AG Lafley, Bernard Arnault, Lee Scott, Rupert Murdoch, Warren Buffett, Li Ka-Shing, Larry Page, Carlos Slim, Marius Kloppers, Steve Feinberg, Lakshmi Mittal, Business News

Some are empire builders. Others are hired guns. But if they truly have world-class oomph, they're on Fortune's subjective - yet really quite accurate...

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