{"id":989659,"date":"2026-02-04T08:18:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T02:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989659"},"modified":"2026-02-04T08:28:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T02:58:42","slug":"disney-taps-parks-head-josh-damaro-as-ceo-to-lead-post-bob-iger-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/04\/disney-taps-parks-head-josh-damaro-as-ceo-to-lead-post-bob-iger-era\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney taps parks head Josh D&#8217;Amaro as CEO to lead post-Bob Iger era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Walt Disney on Tuesday named theme parks head Josh D&#8217;Amaro as CEO, ending years of succession uncertainty and placing a \u2060longtime insider at the helm as artificial intelligence and a wave of consolidation upend the media industry. <\/p>\n<p>D&#8217;Amaro, 54, will take the reins from Bob Iger, 74, at the company&#8217;s annual investor meeting on March 18. Iger &#8211; credited with shaping the modern Disney through deals for Pixar, Marvel and 21st Century Fox &#8211; will stay on as a senior adviser and board member until his retirement from the company on Dec. 31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walt Disney on Tuesday named theme parks head Josh D&#8217;Amaro as CEO, ending years of succession uncertainty and placing a \u2060longtime insider at the helm as artificial intelligence and a wave of consolidation upend the media industry. D&#8217;Amaro, 54, will take the reins from Bob Iger, 74, at the company&#8217;s annual investor meeting on March 18. Iger &#8211; credited with shaping the modern Disney through deals for Pixar, Marvel and 21st Century Fox &#8211; will stay on as a senior adviser and board member until his retirement from the company on Dec. 31.<\/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":[58,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-989659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989659","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=989659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}