ESPN Streaming Executive John Lasker to Depart After 27 Years
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Brian Steinberg
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John Lasker, a longtime ESPN executive who helped lead the network's transition into direct-to-consumer streaming, is leaving the company in late September after 27 years. Lasker joined ESPN in 1999 as a sales planning supervisor and rose through the ranks to oversee programming and acquisitions for ESPN's streaming services. His departure is reportedly his own decision.
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VarietyESPN Streaming Executive John Lasker to Depart After 27 Yearsvariety.comKey quotes
· 3 pulledJohn Lasker, who helped ESPN launch itself into the direct-to-consumer era, with oversight of an area that will likely grow in importance and more video consumers abandon cable for streaming, plans to leave the Disney sports-media giant in late September.
The decision, according to a person familiar with the matter, is his.
Lasker has worked at ESPN for 27 years, joining in 1999 as a supervisor of sales planning before advancing to account sales executive in 2002 and manager of program planning just one year later.
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