As Cord Cutting Takes Hold, Disney Investors Must Face Their Biggest Challenge Yet
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
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🗓️ 1 December 2015
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Disney’s biggest cash cow is in danger as subscriber losses at ESPN accelerate. Will the other businesses be able to fill the void?
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| 0:00.0 | We're talking Walt Disney's subscriber troubles on this Consumer Goods edition of Industry Focus. |
| 0:07.0 | Greetings Fool's, I am Sean O'Reilly joining you here from Fool Headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia. |
| 0:17.0 | It is Tuesday, December 1st, 2015, and joining me to talk all things consumer goods is the man whose picture is next to awesome in the dictionary |
| 0:25.0 | Vincent Shen. |
| 0:26.0 | What's going on, man? |
| 0:27.0 | How are you Sean? |
| 0:28.0 | Awesome. |
| 0:29.0 | How is your holiday? |
| 0:30.0 | So get this, I made the turkey. |
| 0:33.8 | You mentioned this on last week's show and now you didn't bring. |
| 0:36.6 | You did not bring your apartment down. |
| 0:38.1 | Really well. |
| 0:39.1 | It was a little drier than I would have liked, but for a first attempt, could not be be happy how big was it? Well so it |
| 0:44.7 | was just my wife and our son and I so I think I only got like I got the breast I didn't |
| 0:49.5 | get the whole bird and I did not remove organs or things. That's very helpful because the bigger the bird gets, the more time it takes |
| 0:55.0 | so the potential for something to go wrong. |
| 0:57.0 | Somebody who, they're like, yeah, I cooked an 18-pound bird. |
| 1:00.0 | I'm like, that's not not a bird that's a monster. So Vince we've got a |
| 1:06.4 | situation brewing on over at Disney that we'd be remiss if we did not discuss |
| 1:11.2 | however before we do that we just had that most holy of |
| 1:15.3 | holidays black Friday. We got some preliminary results, as I understand it. How did |
| 1:20.8 | things go? Yeah, so you know, last week we talked about the run-up, history behind it, what some of the expectations |
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