Fox and Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) narrowly averted retrans Armageddon on New Years Eve. Will Disney (NYSE: DIS) and ABC manage the same feat during the search for retransmission fees for the network and its affiliates? “We’re pretty resolute,” CEO Bob Iger told analysts during the Disney FYQ1 call, serving…

Bob Iger wasn’t on stage for the iPad launch last month, but the Disney CEO just gave a demo spiel Steve Jobs, the company’s largest shareholder, would applaud about a “really compelling” device that could be a game changer. Volunteering and replying to analyst questions about how Disney plans to…

While *News Corp*. COO Chase Carey, *NBC Universal* CEO Jeff Zucker and others have been out touting the desire to charge for some content through their Hulu JV, Hulu has been working out the logistics for doing just that. StreamingMedia.com’s report that a subscription beta test is underway internally would…

In the works for roughly three months, the Disney (NYSE: DIS) deal to acquire Marvel Entertainment (NYSE: MVL) has analysts fretting about premiums—and comics fans freaking about a future of Captain America Meets Tinkerbell. We’re likely months away from a close or from anything that might affect the Marvel roster…

Updated: The Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) is buying Marvel Entertainment (NYSE: MVL) and its 5,000-character roster for a cool $4 billion in stock and cash. Marvel CEO Ike Perlmutter will stay on to oversee the Marvel properties as part of the deal, which has been approved by both boards…

Updated: *Disney* CEO Bob Iger describes his take on authentication as a “healthy amount of skepticism but open minded.” That said, he also expressed more than a few concerns about the idea during the Disney (NYSE: DIS) Q2 earnings call.  For instance, he’s not thrilled by the idea linked to…

Earlier this week, Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) CEO Jeff Bewkes explained his shopping requirements. During the Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) Q2 earnings call, CEO Bob Iger rolled out his when Merrill Lynch analyst Jessica Reif Cohen asked if Disney is sticking to building instead of buying: “We’re definitely focused…

The Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference started this afternoon in a humid Pasadena, and first up: Bob Iger, CEO of Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS). Among other things, he discussed TV Everywhere effort, and it is clear he’s skeptical of the effort. I am live tweeting some of the bits here, and…

He didn’t exactly say “if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em” but that was the gist of *Disney* CEO Bob Iger’s explanation for joining the Hulu joint venture and for other online initiatives. In recent quarters, digital media barely has been mentioned during the company’s earnings calls. That changed for…

The Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) delivered some better-than-expected results but took a big hit on profit, with net income dropping 46 percent for the quarter ending March 28. It was, to use CEO Bob Iger’s term, a “difficult” quarter. The company reported $613 million in net income on revenue…

Disney (NYSE: DIS) CEO Bob Iger used his street cred as the man who put Disney on iTunes and gave the go-ahead for streaming full episodes on ABC.com to send a simple message to cable operators and programmers at The Cable Show: we’ll look at anything that helps cable, including…

Update: The deal is now official The *Walt Disney Company* and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) are close to one programming deal for video portal YouTube, and are in discussions about another—also involving YouTube—that would preclude a deal with Hulu, paidContent has learned. Disney (NYSE: DIS) and YouTube are in the final…

Unlikely that a single online company online video subscription service would be lucrative enough for anyone, but no harm in talking it up in the paid-content friendly environment these days: Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) CEO Bob Iger was speaking today at a Deutsche Bank-sponsored conference in Florida, and said that…

Via our friends at Beet.tv, a clip from the Media Summit which happened earlier this week in NYC —Bob Iger, CEO of Disney (NYSE: DIS), speaking on social media and Club Penguin (our coverage of his interview here):

Bob Iger, Disney’s president and CEO, has a Facebook page, but he only has two friends. He tells John Byrne, executive editor, BusinessWeek, in a Q&A at the opening of McGraw-Hill Media Summit, that it’s important for executives to experience the same things their audiences do. He began by touching…

So said Bob Iger at the Bear Stearns media conference today, in an otherwise lackluster interview. He said that Disney (NYSE: DIS) expects $1 billion in online content/services revenues in 2008, up from $700 million that it said it expected during fiscal 2007, which ended last September. The revenues come…

With DVD shelf space at retailers becoming increasingly crowded, Disney (NYSE: DIS) CEO Bob Iger hopes to move some of its TV shows from the past 50 years to its website, Bloomberg reported. Iger’s remarks were made during the Q&A portion of Disney’s annual shareholder meeting Thursday in Albuquerque. His…

Disney (NYSE: DIS) CEO Bob Iger and CFO Tom Staggs have signed new five-year contracts with the company…the new employment agreements extend to 2013. Iger’s previous contract had been set to expire in 2010. Iger became Disney’s CEO on September 30, 2005, and the company has seen some good come…

Just finished listening to Bob Iger’s keynote at the Sanford C. Bernstein Media Symposium, closed to the press but open virtually through the magic of Reg FD. (Scratchy audio, though, and no audio at all for questions from the audience; I’ll add a link when it’s available.) The q-and-a session…