Disney\u2019s crisis last September <\/a>when ABC briefly suspended late night comedian Jimmy Kimmel over remarks in the wake of conservative activist Charlie Kirk\u2019s killing. <\/p>\nIger helped navigate the conflict amid outrage among political conservatives, President Trump and the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. On the other side, free-speech advocates were furious that Disney appeared to be ready to cut ties with Kimmel to appease the Trump administration.<\/p>\n
Instead, Kimmel extended his stay through May 2027.<\/p>\n
For D\u2019Amaro, part of the challenge will be living up to the standards set by Iger, who helped the company prosper during his long career.<\/p>\n
\u201cIger was really the visionary deal maker and the global brand quarterback,\u201d said Bill Campbell, head of research for Paragon Intel in Connecticut. \u201cD\u2019Amaro is really the builder-operator who can protect the magic and make the machine more predictable.\u201d<\/p>\n
But Iger himself noted that the next CEO would have to chart a new path.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the world that changes as much as it does, in some form or another trying to preserve the status quo is a mistake,\u201d he said in the February earnings call . \u201cI\u2019m certain that my successor will not do that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Walt Disney Co. selected theme parks chief Josh D\u2019Amaro to be the company\u2019s next chief executive, culminating the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,1581,1804,3588,78557,78558,38050,78555,78556,78554,78560,78561,3701,78559,7038,72],"class_list":["post-161903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-board","tag-company","tag-disney","tag-disney-name-theme-park","tag-former-chairman","tag-former-head","tag-iger","tag-james-gorman","tag-josh-damaro","tag-next-chief-executive","tag-other-senior-executive","tag-planning","tag-top-job","tag-wall-street","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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