disney's latest financial results show the media joan mir ——jane has made some progress in cutting its as the number of subscribers to disney plus fell sharply. this is a first set of quarterly results and bob iger returned to leave the country and he is trying to slash costs by i $5 billion this year. michelle fleury has more. disney said losses in its streaming business totalled $659 million, an improvement from a year earlier. the progress was largely down to price increases introduced last december. since his return as chief executive, bob iger has made restoring profitability and is on a video offering a top priority, during a call with investors, he said it was on the right path to streaming profitability, even with your right —— right astray going on right —— right astray going on right now. lawson 2019, disney plus enjoyed explosive growth, but costs also balloon. by spending less on bringing in new customers, disney is making more money of each one, but its subscriber numbers are fallen. the service is roughly 158 million subscribers around the world, down 2% from december, wi