John Skipper
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"John Skipper" is an American businessman and is the president of ESPN/ESPN Inc. and co-chairman of Disney Media Networks as of January 1, 2012.

In June 1997, Skipper became senior vice president and general manager of ESPN the Magazine. Since October 2005, he has served as executive vice president of content.

Skipper attended Lexington Senior High School (North Carolina)/Lexington Senior High School in Lexington, North Carolina. He then attended University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill/UNC-Chapel Hill and earned a bachelor's degree in English literature. After receiving his master's degree in the same field from Columbia University, he went to work for Rolling Stone, starting as a secretary but moving up. He also worked for Us Weekly/Us and Spin (magazine)/Spin before becoming senior vice president of Disney Publishing Worldwide/Disney Publishing Group.

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The last time I checked, we're still on the Roman calendar.

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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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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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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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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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This deal allows ESPN and the NHL to further extend the game to fans whether they are watching television, logging onto their computer or flipping open their mobile phone.

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Our research and the ratings clearly suggest that a daily show may have been too much.

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