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Bodenheimer Extension Keeping Him At ESPN/ABC Until Fall '11

Bodenheimer Has Been At
ESPN For 28 Years
ESPN/ABC Sports President GEORGE BODENHEIMER "quietly" signed a three-year extension last fall "that will keep him presiding over ESPN through most of 2011," according to sources cited by John Ourand in this week's SPORTSBUSINESS JOURNAL. ESPN Senior VP/Communications CHRIS LAPLACA "confirmed Bodenheimer extended his agreement months ago, but would not elaborate on the terms or details." Ourand reports the deal was signed in October, "coinciding with the end of Disney's fiscal year." Bodenheimer has been at ESPN for 28 years and is "one of the most powerful executives in all of sports." He has been in his current position since '98, during which time the "company has experienced exponential growth and has become by far the most profitable division of the Walt Disney Co." Prior to the extension, there had been "rumors that top executives at Disney were looking to promote Bodenheimer to a position that would move him away from day-to-day oversight and into more of a corporate role." However, Bodenheimer is "believed to be happy at ESPN and in no hurry to move up the corporate ladder" (SPORTSBUSINESS JOURNAL, 6/8 issue).

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