{"id":2090821,"date":"2025-10-14T17:38:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T17:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2090821"},"modified":"2025-10-14T17:38:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T17:38:12","slug":"alex-wallau-one-time-boxing-announcer-who-helped-disney-navigate-media-sector-has-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/alex-wallau-one-time-boxing-announcer-who-helped-disney-navigate-media-sector-has-died\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Wallau, One-Time Boxing Announcer Who Helped Disney Navigate Media Sector, Has Died"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Alex Wallau<\/a>, who rose from working as a director and producer at ABC Sports<\/a> to calling play by play for boxing matches to advising Disney mainstays ranging from Robert A. Iger<\/a> to Jimmy Kimmel<\/a>, died Friday after a long battle with throat cancer at the age of 80.<\/p>\n

Wallau was seen as a critical guide to the media and TV business within Disney \u2014 by both people who worked off camera and those who appeared regularly in front of it.<\/p>\n

At a recent Bloomberg<\/a> conference in Los Angeles, late night host Jimmy Kimmel called Wallau \u201ca guy who\u2019s really been my mentor at ABC.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alex Wallau, who rose from working as a director and producer at ABC Sports to calling play by play for boxing matches to advising Disney mainstays ranging from Robert A. Iger to Jimmy Kimmel, died Friday after a long battle with throat cancer at the age of 80. Wallau was seen as a critical guide […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2090822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2090821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Alex-Wallau-One-Time-Boxing-Announcer-Who-Helped-Disney-Navigate-Media.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2090821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2090823,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090821\/revisions\/2090823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2090822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2090821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2090821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2090821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}