re: ESPN monopoly power: “You’ll take 720p broadcasts and like it.”

I think the best thing Disney could do is spin off ESPN to Amazon or Apple for massive amounts of money they’d probably get more than any deal of this type in history for it if they were able to separate ABC with ESPN and spin it off 100% without trying to maintain any stake in it. This will be way more than enough to save them and go way behind restoring them without having to take on more debt or commit suicide by giving away what could amount to almost a board to seat to the company that owns Universal who is also kicking their arse.

Ofc this results in them losing their biggest Tv/film/etc money maker BY FAR and would look absolutely awful. If they scaled back to focus on what they should be focusing on theme parks, cruises, finding someone capable of making prestige tv to make Disney+ with Hulu integration profitable sometime before I die, make some kind of apology to the public for certain things, and most importantly making actual good movies that drive their biggest money maker by far the theme parks and merch, they will rebound rapidly.

They will NEVER do this though.