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The Iger-Roberts Chess Match & Icahn’s Duel

News and notes from the Maidstone crowd and Burning Tree delegation.

All indications are that Bob Iger has decided to own the third of Hulu he doesn’t own and he has already started talking about combining Hulu with Disney+.
All indications are that Bob Iger has decided to own the third of Hulu he doesn’t own and he has already started talking about combining Hulu with Disney+. Photo: Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images
William D. Cohan
May 28, 2023

The Wall Street Journal had an interesting piece this week, detailing Brian Roberts and Bob Iger’s multiyear battle over their joint custody of Hulu—an uneasy marriage, as Jessica Toonkel and Amol Sharma put it, that Disney and Comcast are working to bring to an end. Among their disputes is an arbitration case over why Disney, Hulu’s majority owner, never expanded the streamer outside the U.S.