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01/18/13 - Disney Management Shake-Up

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4.32.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2013

⏱️ 45 minutes

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01/18/13 - In this episode the team discusses the recent reorganization of several management positions within the Walt Disney Company.

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0:00.0

From the Bob Barley studio in Orlando, Florida, this is the Dizzan Plugged.

0:18.4

Hello and welcome to the Dizzan Plug Roundtable discussion for the week of January 16, 2013.

0:24.7

From Orlando, Florida, I'm your host Pete Werner joined at the table this week.

0:28.0

I'm my good friends, Kathy Worling, Sean Thompson, Kevin Close, and John Meijai,

0:33.7

and joining us via Skype from Fresno, California, Disneyland, a correspondent,

0:39.3

and host of the Dizzan Plugged Disneyland show Tom Bell, and from LaCrosse, Wisconsin,

0:44.8

joining us this week via Skype as well, Tommy Sandvik, our special correspondent, out in the

0:50.5

snowy tundra. In this episode, we are going to talk about the management shakeup.

0:58.0

Going that went on at Disney this past week, and there was a lot of some things we had heard,

1:05.6

some things we hadn't, some real surprises on who was moved where.

1:10.4

Before we get into the discussion, I just kind of want to go over with everybody exactly

1:15.8

what happened. The big thrilling announcement for me anyway, Meg Crofton, who is currently

1:23.5

the president of Walt Disney World has been moved to president of, what is she, I'm sorry.

1:31.4

She's the president of Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Operations for the US and France.

1:36.4

Okay, there you go. And long story short, she ain't president at Disney World anymore, so

1:43.2

and this week we've been on property quite a bit, and we've talked to a number of cast members

1:48.4

who are just trying to contain their glee that she has gone.

1:55.2

However, she still has overseeing Walt Disney World.

1:57.6

Yeah, but it's important, and I think this has to be part of the discussion.

2:00.0

This position they've moved her into, I'm going to put real money on it now.

2:03.8

This is where Disney executives go to retire. I think this is a, I can't use the word I want to use.

2:13.6

This is a not real position that they've moved her into.

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