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• Who picks up the tab? MSOs insist that nets accept greater share of rising programming costs.

  - 2003-06-16

  Seven of the cable industry's most powerful executives last week reacted like deer caught in the headlights when confronted with one simple query: "Who here had dinner with Bob Iger last night?" The question about the president of Wa ...

  Tags: cable, Disney Corp., ESPN, Michael Eisner, programming, sports network

• Disney seeks long-term pacts with operators: Iger wants footing to expand cable networks. (Top of the Week).

  - 2003-02-03

  Walt Disney Co. is talking to the major cable operators about long-term and wide-ranging agreements that would provide the operators with price protection for Disney program services but also give Disney the opportunity to roll out new services, su Walt Disney Co. is talking...

  Tags: ABC Inc., cable, cable network, Disney Corp., ESPN, league, Michael Eisner, network

• Programming costs rankle, prompting Olive branches.

  - 2002-05-13

  NEW ORLEANS -- As it often does, cable programming took center stage at last week's National Show here. Some elements remained the same, such as distribution deals and debates over how to hold down costs -- especially sports costs. And some ...

  Tags: cable, Cablevision Systems Corp., ESPN, Michael Eisner, programming, Shield, VoD

• Eisner touts 'global' links between Disney and ABC. (Michael Eisner; Walt Disney Co.; Capital Cities/ABC Inc.)

  - 1995-08-07

  NEW YORK - As staffers at ESPN watched television coverage of the press conference announcing their parent company's merger with the Walt Disney Co. last week, some were struck by the repetition of one word on the lips of Disney's chairman and CEO, M NEW YORK...

  Tags: ABC Inc., Disney Corp., ESPN, Michael Eisner, The Walt Disney Co.