The CEO also said that Disney+ will "probably" emulate Netflix and stop reporting subscriber numbers at some point, he noted during a CNBC appearance.

"These spinoff companies won't have the assets from a streaming perspective that we will have. I think that gives us an advantage," Bob Iger told CNBC Tuesday

Disney chief Bob Iger floated the question in an interview on CNBC whether the company’s TV channels — including ABC, the ABC station group, Disney Channel, NatGeo and FX — were no longer "core to Disney.