Eight months after Disney took full control of Hulu, Disney’s Direct-to-Consumer & International is moving forward with integrating Hulu into its business operations under DTCI chairman Kevin M…
has stepped down. The top executives across Hulu operations, like distribution, sales, marketing, will now report directly into the corresponding DTCI business leads.
There already has been integration of Hulu operations under Disney executives in the original programming area, which stopped reporting to Freer last summer when Dana Walden, chairman of Disney Television Studios and ABC Entertainment, took oversight of Hulu original scripted series. Additionally, FX chairman John Landgraf oversees the FX on Hulu portion of the streamer. Both Walden and Landgraf report to Peter Rice, chairman of Walt Disney Television and co-chair of Disney Media Networks.
Freer’s departure eliminates another inherited CEO position within the Disney corporate structure where the only executive with a CEO title is Bob Iger. He will remain in his role at Hulu for the next several weeks to help with the integration.
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