Steve Chung

Chief Legal Officer, Walt Disney Television at The Walt Disney Company

Steve Chung serves as the chief legal officer for Walt Disney Television, inclusive of the ABC network (including ABC News), ABC Owned Television Stations, ABC Signature, ABC Daytime, Disney Channels, Freeform, 20th Television, Touchstone Television, FX Studios, and Standards & Practices for all of the TV networks. In addition to his current reports and scope of responsibility, Chung is responsible for managing the National Geographic legal team (excluding travel, consumer products and compliance). He reports to Alan Braverman, senior executive vice president, general counsel and secretary, The Walt Disney Company.

Prior to joining The Walt Disney Company in 2017, Chung held the position of senior vice president, NBCUniversal Legal, where he served as attorney for the “TODAY Show,” Owned Stations Group, NBC Sports, NBC Entertainment News and NBCU Television Distribution Group (syndicated talk shows). He counseled clients on intellectual property, First Amendment, regulatory, compliance, litigation, advertising, privacy, employment, digital and transactional matters. Chung was also a founding member of NBCUniversal’s diversity committee for the law department, serving as the head of the group for a term.

He was a member of the board of directors for the Asian American Bar Association of New York and created a mentorship program that has reached hundreds of diverse lawyers and is still in operation.

Before his legal career, Chung was a management consultant, focused on data analytics, creating prediction models for data-rich industries and working with the management of Fortune 500 companies to adopt new strategies.

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  • Chief Legal Officer, Walt Disney Television

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