Dana Walden
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Oct 2, 2026
speaker_2HOST
Yes.
speaker_2HOST
And Dana Walden, a top executive at Disney, specifically cites technology shifts for what she calls, quote, "extremely painful Disney cuts and layoffs."
speaker_3HOST
Ouch.
speaker_2HOST
On top of all that, Netflix just hired Naomi Blechchnikov Paul as their new head of TV communications, which strongly suggests they are reshuffling their executive deck specifically to manage the PR messaging around this incredibly difficult environment.
Peter HambyHOST
Disney announced, uh, this week that they're going all in on streaming.
Peter HambyHOST
That suggests that Josh DeMaro and Dana Walden are probably gonna make some cuts on the, uh, on the TV side.
Peter HambyHOST
We'll see where that goes.
Peter HambyHOST
But what do you...
Julia AlexanderGUEST
But Disney+ has not really charted outside of Bluey in regard to its original content, and when you have massive theatrical re- uh, uh, franchises like Marvel and Star Wars that you've paid a combined $8 billion for, you want some of that theatrical success and that park success to come down into the streaming, uh, uh, format.
Julia AlexanderGUEST
At the same time, you don't wanna burn out your theatrical and parks audience by making everything be Star Wars and Marvel, especially if it's not playing.
Julia AlexanderGUEST
So you start to do the question, if you're Josh Zamaro, if you're Dana Walden, if you're Deborah O'Connell, you say, "Who makes shows that this audience would like?" Because we're not necessarily gonna get into super heavy UGC, user-generated content stuff.
Julia AlexanderGUEST
We're figuring that out.
Alan NgHOST
Yeah.
Chris GoreHOST
Dana Walden-
Alan NgHOST
So let's be real...
Alan NgHOST
Okay.
Alan NgHOST
Ah.
Chris GoreHOST
I haven't had coffee.
Chris GoreHOST
[laughs] Hey, Dana Walden blames Moana 2 for the live action Moana flop.
Chris GoreHOST
Or maybe Moana the live action was just god awful.
Brett DasovicHOST
We're also gonna be talking about Disney and the fact that they're just making all of the excuses for the slop that they're releasing that people don't like, like Moana, you know, a live action Moana.
Mary MorganHOST
So [laughs] what does Dana Walden do? Like, what's her deal? What's her job?
Brett DasovicHOST
We'll get into it.
Brett DasovicHOST
I'll, I'll, I'll do some, uh, I always forget what department she runs.
58 MINS LATER
Mary MorganHOST
So they're like, "Oh, just put some Moana out there.
Mary MorganHOST
It'll do well." [laughs] And that did not happen the way they planned.
Mary MorganHOST
So the Disney president, Dana Walden, just did an interview where, in part, she addressed the failure of the live-action remake of Moana, and she basically doesn't recognize why this happened.
Mary MorganHOST
Here was her explanation.
Bob ChapekSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It was the synthesis of a lot of people's opinion that the company's statement needed to be amended.
Alex MarlowHOST
Well, partially it's because Dana Walden, who runs Disney, is a best friend with Kamala Harris, and they know politically that the Don't Say Gay bill, which was a Florida thing, which has nothing to do with whether or not you're allowed to say gay.
Alex MarlowHOST
You can say gay all you want.
Alex MarlowHOST
The issue was trying to make it so that people had to enforce DEI within all sorts of different areas of life, businesses, et cetera.
Alex MarlowHOST
And it was just enforced DEI, which is not working.
Alex MarlowHOST
Disney's Dana Walden, by the way, has given some lukewarm support to Jimmy Kimmel.
Alex MarlowHOST
I wanna play cut nineteen for you guys.
Alex MarlowHOST
Play this one.
Lauren SmithHOST
Also trending this morning, are we on the horizon of late night TV being done? It was a really interesting conversation.
Lauren SmithHOST
Part of Bloomberg's screen time yesterday, Disney President Dana Walden says she's a huge fan of late night hosts like Jimmy Kimmel, but the fact is, late night TV is really no longer profitable.
Lauren SmithHOST
She said late night programming in general is very challenging because of that time slot, saying, "That's not to say Jimmy is not doing a phenomenal job, and his ratings are up, but they're up relative to a much smaller audience-
Steve KellyHOST
Mm
Trish ReganHOST
This guy is out." Well, now they got a big headline today basically saying, "Ha." You know, "What did we, what did we tell you?" Disney's number two executive gives telling clue about Jimmy Kimmel's future at ABC.
Trish ReganHOST
So Dana Walden, she is the president and chief creative officer there at Disney.
Trish ReganHOST
And don't forget, Disney is the parent company of ABC.
Trish ReganHOST
They own ABC News.
Carol MassarHOST
Um, let's move on over to Disney.
Carol MassarHOST
We know Dana Walden, president and chief creative officer at Disney, she spoke at Screen Time with Lucas Shaw.
Carol MassarHOST
Well, the company plans to cut hundreds of jobs as part of a restructuring of its TV operations, so extending a wave of job cuts at the company.
Carol MassarHOST
This is all coming from the Wall Street Journal.
Carol MassarHOST
So what are we seeing with Disney shares? They have been moving lower throughout the day, down 3.4%.
Carol MassarHOST
Ticker, of course, DIS.
Tim StenovecHOST
Yeah, Disney president chief creative officer, Dana Walden, as Carol mentioned, she was speaking here, and what she said was actually quoted in the Wall Street Journal piece.
Tim StenovecHOST
Uh, she said the company's taking a bunch of divisions that have been run separately and, quote, "centralizing as a television business, not a bunch of silos." She said, quote, "There is a need to constantly evaluate how you're structured and how big is the organization." Once again, the Wall Street Journal today reporting that Disney is planning TV restructuring as streamlining continues.
Brett DasovicHOST
... like this aren't doing very well.
Brett DasovicHOST
They, they were talking to Dana Walden about why Moana failed at the box office, meaning Moana-
BlabsGUEST
No, they're referring to the live action Moana.
Brett DasovicHOST
Yes, live action, not Moana 2.
Lucas ShawCORRESPONDENT
Thank you.
speaker_5HOST
That, of course, is Bloomberg's Lucas Shaw with Dana Walden, President and Chief Creative Officer over at the Walt Disney Company.
speaker_5HOST
They have been up on the main screen here, the theater at Bloomberg Screen Time.
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