{"id":384915,"date":"2026-10-28T04:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T04:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/384915\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T04:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T04:46:09","slug":"bob-iger-former-disney-ceo-honored-as-2026-pac-nyc-icon-of-culture-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/384915\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Iger, former Disney CEO, honored as 2026 PAC NYC Icon of Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Iger was recognized for his decades-long influence on TV, film, sports, news and philanthropy.<\/p>\n<p>WABC<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KABC logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1793162769_406_origin-kabc.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, October 28, 2026 3:31AM<\/p>\n<p>Follow ABC7 on Google<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">Former Disney Chairman and CEO Bob Iger was honored as the 2026 PAC NYC Icon of Culture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Iger, one of Disney&#8217;s longest-serving chief executives, was recognized for his decades-long influence on TV, film, sports, news and philanthropy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Some of his closed ABC colleagues were on hand for the celebration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;I am overcome with gratitude tonight. Gratitude for this incredible opportunity that I&#8217;ve been given over the years, to work for a company like Disney for 52 years, and have the chance to really bring happiness to the world has been extraordinary,&#8221; Iger said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Perelman Performing Arts Center is a performing arts center built as part of the World Trade Center&#8217;s post-9\/11 development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Its mission is to be a home for emerging and established artists in theater, dance, music and opera.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bob Iger was recognized for his decades-long influence on TV, film, sports, news and philanthropy. WABC Wednesday, October&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[140411,9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":["post-384915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-140411","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}