By Dade Hayes Finance Editor Rebecca Campbell, whose promotion to Disney’s Chairman of Direct-to-Consumer & International on Monday put her in charge of Disney+, Hulu, Hotstar and ESPN+, took a less-traveled road the to the C-suite.
During the bulk of her 23 years at the company, Campbell focused on local broadcasting, running individual stations and the ABC Owned Television Stations Group, which has stations in New York, LA and six other markets.
After college, she worked production and programming jobs in Lancaster and Allentown, PA, roles with more than faint echoes of former Disney CEO Bob Iger’s early-career stints in Ithaca, NY and a studio supervisor for ABC.
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