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The New York Times > Business > Media & Advertising > Disney's No. 2 Officer to Take Charge in SeptemberDisney's No. 2 Officer to Take Charge in September
By LAURA M. HOLSON

LOS ANGELES, March 13 - The Walt Disney Company announced Sunday that its president, Robert A. Iger, who began his career as a studio supervisor 30 years ago at ABC, will succeed Michael D. Eisner as chief executive, ending Mr. Eisner's storied but tumultuous two-decade reign a year earlier than expected.