Two grilled chairmen, to go: AOL Time Warner's case, Disney's Eisner fight for their corporate lives. (Top of the Week).(Steve Case, Michael Eisner)(Brief Article)

Broadcasting & Cable, September, 2002 by Higgins, John M.

The swagger has been beaten out of the storied heads of two of the largest media conglomerates, as Steve Case and Michael Eisner shift from merely reviving their slumping companies--AOL Time Warner and Walt Disney Co., respectively--to actually keeping their jobs. Both executives are shuffling fast to shore up what had been unquestioned support from key board members who, say industry execs, are mulling a little regime change of their own.

An AOL spokesman said Case "is the company's chairman and he will remain so." The central topic at a board meeting last week, the spokesman said, was operations at the AOL Internet division. But no doubt, Case is the No. 1 topic at the company. Eisner may take the fall simply for Disney's many operating problems at...

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