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Changing Titles: ESPN Shifts Several Roles In Production Department

ESPN has made several moves to its production department, moving MIKE MCQUADE to VP/SportsCenter, PHIL ORLINS to Senior Coordinating Producer for MLB and RICH FEINBERG to Senior Coordinating Producer for X Games. Feinberg will remain VP/Motorsports Production. ESPN described the moves as shifting roles -- nobody is losing their job. McQuade, who had been VP/Remote Production, will report to Senior VP/SportsCenter & News ROB KING. Orlins, who had produced several events for ESPN from "Sunday Night Baseball" to Winter X Games, will continue to report to Senior VP & Exec Producer JED DRAKE, as will Feinberg.

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