Eisner's Veoh: From mouse ears to rabbit ears

Disney‘s former Supreme Mouse-in-Chief Michael Eisner is in the headlines in both Variety and the Wall Street Journal today, explaining why he’s bankrolling a web TV venture called Veoh. The news comes on the heels of headlines about Veoh rival youTube‘s seduction of marketers like Nike, Warner Bros., MTV2 and Dimension Films.

Says Eisner:

“I’ve spent my entire career in a world of gatekeepers,” Mr. Eisner said in an interview with the Journal. “First there were motion-picture theaters, then the three broadcast networks, then cable and satellite.

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