Walden, Revisited

Dana Walden
Dana Walden, the Disney Entertainment co-chair and TV chief, who is on the shortlist to replace Iger as C.E.O., was intimately involved in the decision to preempt Kimmel as well as the subsequent negotiations over how to bring him back on the air. Photo: Jesse Grant/Variety/Getty Images
Dylan Byers
September 26, 2025

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This week, after I wrapped up my umpteenth media appearance waxing philosophical on the Disney-Jimmy Kimmel-F.C.C.-Trump drama, and the attendant implications for free speech, regulatory overreach, and corporate responsibility in an era of encroaching autocracy—you know, the important stuff—a denizen of the Toscana crowd reached out with a more pressing inquiry regarding the fate of the Republic: How does this affect the Iger succession plan?