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This morning as guests gathered at a media breakfast to hear Michael Eisner , chairman and CEO of the Walt Disney Co. , the weather outside was cold and nasty. Eisner stated that ABC is in the ...
Michael Eisner at Topps Headquarters held at 1 Whitehall St. Manhattan, New York April 25, 2018. Patrick E. McCarthy. ... When Eisner bought Capital Cities/ABC in 1995, ...
In 1995, a media merger changed Disney forever. The acquisition of ABC altered the course of the company, along with the careers of Bob Iger and Michael Eisner. Former exec Ted Harbert takes us ...
On the eve of his exit, outgoing Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Michael Eisner took center stage at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel and reflected on his fortuitous timing. Speaking to an ...
Michael Eisner led ABC television to first in ratings as vice-president of programming. He was president of Paramount Pictures and helped launch films such as Saturday Night Fever and Grease.
Eisner wrote to his executives in 1999 that the game show could be a bigger deal for ABC that its NHL broadcast rights, and that “Millionaire” might make the network more that $1 billion.
In a relaxed interview with L.A. radio statesman Michael Jackson, Disney topper Michael Eisner disputed that the right-wing hosts carried on ABC's radio stations have the same partisan influence ...
Walt Disney chairman and CEO Michael Eisner said if Disney's ABC News and AOL-Time Warner's CNN can come to an agreement, he would support the merger. He said ABC news would not be weakened by ...
Michael Eisner is back in the mouse house, this time as a TV producer. ABC has bought a period single-camera comedy project that Eisner is executive producing. Set in the 1980s, the untitled ...
NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- Walt Disney Chairman Michael Eisner said Wednesday that he sees "50-50" odds that his company's ABC News unit would reach an agreement to merge with CNN.