Financial Times Disney Explores Strategic Shift Away from Traditional TV to Focus on Streaming: CEO Bob Iger Walt Disney Co (NYSE: DIS) is exploring options for its portfolio of TV networks marking its focus on film studios, theme parks, and streaming. CEO Bob Iger mentioned that the company is considering strategic partnerships for ESPN, with the likelihood that its premium sports programming will eventually shift entirely to streaming. Iger was obvious that the linear TV assets are for sale, s
Jim Mullin, Amazon Prime Air’s chief pilot, left Amazon last month, according to an update to his LinkedIn profile spotted by CNBC. Meanwhile, Robert Dreer, Prime Air’s head of test flight operations, announced his departure on LinkedIn last week. Amazon has been struggling to get its drone delivery program off the ground. While the company projected it would send 10,000 deliveries by the end of this year, CNBC reported that it had only made 100 deliveries as of May.