A high profile addition to IAC’s board: Michael Eisner. The former Disney (NYSE: DIS) CEO will become the thirteenth member of the company’s board, which already included big media names such as former Dow Jones (NSDQ: NWS) CEO Richard Zannino, Warner Music CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr., and, of course, chairman…

Is Michael Eisner about to surface at Tribune? The Tribune-owned Los Angeles Times says the former Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) CEO is a contender to replace current chairman Sam Zell once the company emerges from its very messy bankruptcy proceedings. The publication cites four unnamed sources who say that Eisner…

Bucking the consolidation trend, Michael Eisner is spinning off Vuguru, the digital content studio he founded in 2006, into a standalone company. Backed by an undisclosed amount of funding from Canadian telecom giant Rogers Communications— the NYT dubs it a multimillion dollar stake—Eisner will stay on as chairman. No word…

Michael Eisner is the subject of a long and rather fawning profile in the Sunday NYT that comes to the conclusion that he has a “comfortable post-Disney (NYSE: DIS) existence—deeply involved with his talk show, his investments and his experiments in new media, and quite pleased that corporate spinmeisters no…

Content’s still king and creativity still the crown jewels, regardless of new media, former Disney (NYSE: DIS) CEO Michael Eisner suggested in his keynote at the Mipcom audiovisual market in Cannes. Translation: great stories will succeed whether online or off. But Eisner - whose new plaything away from Mickey Mouse’s…

Veoh founder Dmitry Shapiro climbed on stage at a small theater in Manhattan to introduce a discussion on the changes online video have been experiencing. For its mini-conference, the Veoh Insights Series: Watching The Web,  first up was a Q&A between Michael Eisner, the former Disney (NYSE: DIS) CEO and,…

Michael Eisner is back in…TV! What a surprise. After investing in some digital media startups (Veoh, Vuguru) and buying some random companies (Topps), Eisner is back in TV. Through his private investment firm, Tornante, Eisner has sold his first animated series, “Glenn Martin DDS,” to the Viacom-owned kids channel Nickelodeon.…

Michael Eisner may not be the same hot ticket at SxSW as he would be elsewhere, but the conference organizers made the curious decision to put an interview of him by Mark Cuban in the smallest room in the house (just the Mavs fans alone could probably fill all the…

“Insanity.” That’s how former Disney (NYSE: DIS) CEO Michael Eisner described the writers’ strike during an interview with Neil Cavuto at the Media & Money Conference. Eisner’s current role is internet entrepreneur and investor through his investment firm The Tornante Company. Eisner, seldom at a loss for words, explained his…

This is unusual for the talent agency land, which usually prefers to be in the background: Veoh, the online video sharing site backed by Michael Eisner’s new fund, has tied up with talent agency UTA, where UTA will launch a video channel on Veoh, to showcase video from its roster…