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John Skipper is ESPN's new boss

ESPN president John Skipper.

Photo credit: AP, 2010

John Skipper, who had been ESPN's top executive in charge of content, since Jan. 1 has been ESPN's top executive in charge of, well, everything. He succeeded George Bodenheimer in what widely was expected to be an orderly transition.

I asked Skipper about that last week and he described the changed as, yup, orderly.

Here is what he said:

"The transition has been great - really,...

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