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Volume 23 No. 39
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ESPN’s tricky NFL problem

Pitaro’s to-do list: Repair relationship
By John Ourand
March 12, 2018
George Bodenheimer had only been on the job as ESPN’s acting chairman for a couple of weeks when he got word that Fox and the NFL would partner on the NFL draft, jointly producing a show that would directly compete against ESPN.   ESPN executives were angry. ESPN created the NFL...
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