{"id":853255,"date":"2024-09-09T08:38:16","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T03:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=853255"},"modified":"2024-09-09T08:47:21","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T03:17:21","slug":"palace-coup-how-iger-outmanoeuvred-chapek-returned-to-power-at-disney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/09\/09\/palace-coup-how-iger-outmanoeuvred-chapek-returned-to-power-at-disney\/","title":{"rendered":"Palace coup: How Iger outmanoeuvred Chapek, returned to power at Disney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At 5 pm on February 25, 2020, Bob Chapek and Bob Iger settled into matching directors\u2019 chairs on the Disney studio lot for a series of live media interviews. The company had just shocked pretty much everybody by announcing that the little-known Chapek would be replacing the wildly popular  Iger as chief executive. <\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Julia Boorstin of CNBC, Chapek fawned over his predecessor. \u201cI obviously have huge shoes to fill,\u201d he said with wide eyes, hailing Iger\u2019s \u201cmagic\u201d running Disney. Iger\u2019s 15-year tenure as chief executive had been so successful that he had considered running for president as a Democrat. Queen Elizabeth II knighted him just before she died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 5 pm on February 25, 2020, Bob Chapek and Bob Iger settled into matching directors\u2019 chairs on the Disney studio lot for a series of live media interviews. The company had just shocked pretty much everybody by announcing that the little-known Chapek would be replacing the wildly popular Iger as chief executive. In an interview with Julia Boorstin of CNBC, Chapek fawned over his predecessor. \u201cI obviously have huge shoes to fill,\u201d he said with wide eyes, hailing Iger\u2019s \u201cmagic\u201d running Disney. Iger\u2019s 15-year tenure as chief executive had been so successful that he had considered running for president [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-853255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-business-standard-newspapers","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}