"Bob Iger Should Resign" - Disney HUMILIATED After YouTube TV’s ESPN Power Move
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Summary
Disney and YouTube TV have a new deal, and it s good news for sports fans. But is it good news or bad news? And what does it mean for the future of the service? Plus, why Bob Iger should step down from the board.
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Disney was losing $4 million a day on YouTube TV dispute.
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$4 million a day is $1.2 billion a year, give or take.
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That's real money that you're going through, right?
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Rob, is this the whole thing about them figuring it out?
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Disney and YouTube TV tonight reached a new deal to bring Disney-owned channels back to the Google-owned live streaming platform.
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Disney had polled its channels October 30th in a dispute over how much YouTube TV would pay it to carry its networks.
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Under the new agreement, YouTube TV subscribers will have access to all ESPN networks, ABC, Disney-branded channels, Freeform, the FX networks, and the National Geographic channels at no extra cost.
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The new deal is also expected to give YouTube TV subscribers access to ESPN's newly released direct-to-consumer app.
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Neil Mohan absolutely posterized Disney because now the YouTube TV subscribers, hey, it's all over.
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Disney's back on, and you can get this, and you can get this, and your YouTube TV price isn't going up.
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So either Mohan got at an unbelievable discount and then decided, hey, it's such a discount, maybe we don't need to raise rates.
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It's the same thing that you used to do when insurance companies would behave badly, right?
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We would say, hey, you know what, we'll take a little, they'll do a little, you know, things like that, health insurance.
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I'm not speaking about life insurance in the old company.
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I'm talking about when we used to negotiate for health insurance.
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And sometimes they would give us, you know, a slap in the head on premium, and we would try everything we could negotiate,
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and then we would say, you know what, we're not passing that on other employees.
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So Mohan may have done that, but I think what happened here is Disney just got posterized.
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They pulled everything off the air, and they said, so there, you don't get our content.
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You know, it's like you hit a guy in a bar, and your fist bounces off his jaw,
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and he just kind of looks at you and touches his jaw, and you have three words, this is going to hurt in your head.
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The subscribers of YouTube TV don't pay more money, and they get more stuff.
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First of all, now, Tom, I don't know why you do this to yourself every time,
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and you reveal unnecessary information to the public for the amount of bar fights you got in your life.
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They look at you right now as a good Christian father.
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Well, it was part of when he was part of the Bloods and Crips.
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Yeah, but you know, when you hear a story like this, you know what it comes down to?
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That's a $200 billion company because of the operator and the board.
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Disney is another one of those companies that shouldn't be a $200 billion company.
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The amount of companies that they own and the flywheel that they have, how the hell is that not a trillion-dollar company?
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Can you tap in Disney's flywheel, Rob, and go to images?
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People don't know 80% of the companies that they own.
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This is their flywheel, and they're not a trillion-dollar company.
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They are such an undervalued asset, and the only reason they won't get to a trillion dollars is because they've got to change the board.
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They've got to change the CO ASAP, and it doesn't look like it's going to be happening because there were a couple guys that were fighting to get into the board, and they didn't support them.
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They kicked them out, and the board sided with Bob Iger, which was horrible for shareholders, and it wasn't good for the viewers.
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But a good day will come when Bob respectfully resigns.
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Kathleen Kennedy's done December 31st of this year.
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I know you don't like it because you're all so woke.
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You just finally got rid of DEI bullshit that you were dealing with.
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But, oh, my God, bring a couple conservatives to your board.
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By the way, do you know what's a big-ass announcement for Disney to make?
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Just type in Disney's board, board of directors.
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What I'd want to know is how many of those guys are conservatives?
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How many of Disney's board of directors, how many of Disney's board of directors are conservatives leaning?
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By the way, the conservative that they have would be like a rhino.
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Yeah, it's like the girl from the view on where they would be.
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Leadership at Disney, executive end board, 908 given to Republicans versus 2.8 million given to Democrats.
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It's a little more than 3 to 1 because 9 times 3 would be 27, right?
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Still control your political leanings that you want.
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And your parks are getting their asses handed to them anyways.
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We can have a 20-name list to give to you to consider to have it on.
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By the way, imagine if that announcement comes out.
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We have agreed to add the following three people to the board.
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Yeah, you think you would be like, all right, so there's some reasonable voices in there.
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I grew up watching Disney cartoons in Iran, in Farsi.
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Pro-family people want Disney to go back to being normal again.
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It's an undervalued asset that should be a trillion-dollar company
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Not getting rid of DEI because BlackRock and the glass and, you know,
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These guys no longer require ESG scores like they did five years ago.
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It's a very disappointing story here with a great brand.
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Simply removing emotion from this conversation,
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Disney's stock has sat in neutral for the last decade.
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They're negative 1% over the last decade, their stock.
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So if you're just following the money and say this is a publicly traded company
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and our goal is to bring value to the shareholders,
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Brian Nickel would take this thing to a $2 trillion valuation in 10 years.
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Brian Nickel, which you're not going to get because he's at Starbucks,
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he would take this thing to a $2 trillion valuation within a decade.
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