John Skipper
John Skipper
John Skipper is an American businessman and is the president of ESPN Inc. and co-chairman of Disney Media Networks as of January 1, 2012...
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Al Michaels worked hard, did a fantastic job for ABC for 30 years. I respect that, and we appreciate that.
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Al wasn't comfortable with our vision. We reached a satisfactory resolution with Al. He did a fantastic job at ABC for 30 years, but once he said 'No,' we needed to move forward. We want to work with people who want to work with us.
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Al was not comfortable and let us know that he was not comfortable with the way that we were going. We want to work with the people who want to work with us. We made a decision quickly to move on.
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Al was not comfortable and let us know he was not comfortable with our vision of where we are going. Back in November he said it was the greatest job ever invented. So sometime between the last couple of weeks and November apparently he had a change of heart.
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Al let us know he was not comfortable with our vision.
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Our research and the ratings clearly suggest that a daily show may have been too much.
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You'll expect to see this year much more coverage from us online, and we'll do a dedicated World Cup site -- expect to see phone updates and alerts and highlights,
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We were very happy with our relations with Sega, ... However, if you think about who you want to be working with for the long term ... EA is the natural choice for us to be associated with.
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We plan to build the Full Circle concept by applying similar blanket coverage to future events.
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Once it was clear he had reservations, we decided to move on.
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I hope we'll do a little more international football-centric production of the games so that it'll feel more and more authentic and more and more like ESPN is part of the international football world,
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Nothing finalized. It's natural we'd think about things such as the X-games. We certainly play a lot of poker on our air, so we're thinking about that. We're also thinking about bass. We have the rights to the bass license.
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Nothing finalized, ... It's natural we'd think about things such as the X-games. We certainly play a lot of poker on our air, so we're thinking about that. We're also thinking about bass. We have the rights to the bass license.
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We will propel MNF into a 21st century, all-day, exclusive, multi-media event that will engage fans in entirely new ways.