As the National Football League and the players union continue contract talks, Walt Disney Co. Chief Financial Officer Jay Rasulo was pressed Tuesday to answer questions about how a potential strike or lockout would impact sports juggernaut ESPN. Rasulo expressed confidence that Disney’s lucrative sports network, which has the rights to “Monday Night Football,” could weather the loss of games, telling the audience at Credit Suisse’s Global Media and Communications Convergence Conference that “we’re not that concerned.” [LAT]
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- Caleb Newquist
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~ Gayle Anderson, CFO of Match.com, on the economy.
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- Caleb Newquist
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~ The Fox Business Correspondent/Ace Reporter insists that an announcement is “imminent.” That’s what the rumor mill says anyway.
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Charlie Gasparino: Former CFO Is Getting Some Extra Stink-eye in Lehman Probe
- Caleb Newquist
- June 11, 2010
Namely, Erin Callan.